“Date Lab” Shows Its True Colors
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s time for some weekend trivia. Every week the Washington Post gives some money to a couple of readers who use it to go on a date. In the latest edition of this merrymaking, the young couple (ages 25 and 30) spent more than the…
World Bank Gamed Data to Make Chile’s Socialist Party Look Bad
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Paul Romer, the chief economist of the World Bank, told the Wall Street Journal yesterday that the bank’s “Doing Business” rankings had been systematically gamed over the past few years to change Chile’s ranking: The former director of the group responsible for the report, Augusto…
Why Did Slate Protect Trump’s Hush Money Secret?
Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As you surely know by now, Donald Trump’s lawyer arranged a payment of $130,000 to porn star Stephanie Clifford—aka Stormy Daniels—during the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. However, Trump didn’t have an affair with her and this…
Scientists Are Getting Way Better at Forecasting. It Could Change How We Deal With Droughts.
Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a rainstorm slammed California’s Russian River watershed in December 2012, water rushed into Lake Mendocino, a reservoir north of San Francisco. The cause? An atmospheric…
How Do I Reassure My Children About the Future When the Future Is Terrifying?
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story first appeared at TomDispatch.com. As a mother and an activist, here’s what I’ve concluded as 2018 begins: It’s getting harder and harder to think about the future—at least in that soaring Whitney Houston fashion. You know the song: “I believe…
Michael Flynn’s Lawyer Tweeted Something Curious
Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Attorney Robert Kelner leave the federal court following Flynn’s plea hearing in Washington D.C., the United States, on Dec. 1, 2017.Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lawyer, Robert Kelner, on Thursday tweeted…