Is Orrin Hatch the Smartest Senator in the World?
Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want a good example of how budget scoring from a baseline can produce bizarre results, look no further than the proposed funding extension for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Back in October, CBO estimated that the net cost…
Our Legal System Is About to Get a Real Workout
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Paul Manafort is suing Robert Mueller for going beyond his remit by prosecuting him for fraud rather than collusion with Russia. Donald Trump has threatened to sue a publisher over a book he doesn’t like. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham are trying to get the…
Raw Data: US Life Expectancy Compared to Canada
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Life expectancy in the US has been a little lower than in Canada for a long time—probably due to the racial composition of the US population—but over the last four decades it’s dropped steadily and dramatically. Among whites, who used to live a little longer…
Telling the Truth About EITC “Fraud”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s nice to see a conservative being honest about something that’s normally a conservative hobbyhorse. In this case, it’s AEI visiting scholar Bruce Meyer talking about fraud in the EITC program: James Pethokoukis: So, what about that fraud issue many conservatives gripe about? Is it…
Lena Waithe’s Gripping New Drama Series Is “Super Black, Super Authentic, Super Chicago”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The 33-year-old actress and writer Lena Waithe is best known for her role as Denise, Aziz Ansari’s pal in the Netflix series Master of None. In September, she became the first black woman to win a comedy writing Emmy for the show’s “Thanksgiving” episode—Denise’s…
The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Unleash a New Wave of Voter Purges
A line of early voters on November 7, 2016, in Columbus, OhioJohn Minchillo/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When it comes to purging names from the voter rolls, the state of Ohio is second-to-none. Since becoming secretary of state in 2011, Republican Jon Husted has excised more than 2 million voters…