Eric Trump Stands to Profit Bigly From Sweetheart Real Estate Deal With His Dad
Santiago Hafford/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and The Real Deal. President Donald Trump’s son Eric is preparing to capitalize on a windfall he received from his father during the presidential campaign: He’s combining three luxury Manhattan high-rise apartments, one of which he…
What Do the New Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for You?
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration announced last week that it would allow states to impose work or other “community engagement” requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries—a first in the program’s history. Though the administration says the policy will not apply to Medicaid beneficiaries who are pregnant,…
Proposed Kentucky Law: Abstinence Is the “Expected Standard” in Sex Ed
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As they resume their legislative sessions at the start of the new year, politicians in two Southern states are caught up in debates about how to best teach kids about sex. Kentucky Senator Stephen Meredith wants schools to teach that “abstinence from sexual activity…
Paul Romer Explains the “Doing Business” Ranking FUBAR
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I don’t want to spend forever on the controversy over the World Bank’s “Doing Business” rankings, but Paul Romer put up a post today that shows what kind of effect the new ranking methodology had on Chile. Here it is: The new rankings (light orange)…
Why Trump Killed the Immigration Deal: Because Democrats Made Him Look Bad
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’ve long supported the idea of making a deal that would give President Trump a piece of his wall in return for legislative authorization of DACA. But it turns out that Democrats were prepared to offer him even more: not…
Here’s the Latest Stupid Conservative Conspiracy Theory
Tong Wu/TNS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s hard keeping up with conservative conspiracy theories. Did you know that for the past week the usual suspects (Hannity, Drudge, etc.) have been circulating the bombshell news that we now have PROOF the FBI was conspiring against Donald Trump during…