Renewable Energy Is Kicking Ass in Colorado
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’ve got nothing but charts for you today. Sorry about that. But I might as well get them out of my system. Here’s one that Dave Roberts is excited about. It shows the average bid response to a request for new power plants from Colorado’s…
It’s Been 50 Years Since MLK Jr. Declared War on Poverty. The Economy for Black Americans Still Stinks
Horace Cort/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Americans reflect on the first Martin Luther King Jr. Day of the Trump administration and prepare for the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination, it’s as good a time as any to measure our world against the one Dr. King dared us…
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)…