The Administration Claims Crime Is on the Rise. So Why Did the FBI Delete Key Crime Data?
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony in December 2017. Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ten days before Christmas, Attorney General Jeff Sessions held a rare press conference to discuss one of his top priorities in his first year at…
Christmas Came Early for America’s UFO Community
Robin Loznak/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On December 16, UFO researchers and enthusiasts, along with the general public, were treated to an unexpected gift from the New York Times. In a front-page investigation, the country’s most august news organization grappled with a topic that’s usually relegated to the fringes, detailing…
Here Is the Worst Anti-Science BS of 2017
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On a rainy day in April, 100,000 demonstrators—led by some of the nation’s most prominent scientists—converged on the National Mall for the first ever March for Science. It was Earth Day, and many of them were there to protest the environmental policies…
Will Republicans Ever Get Disgusted by Donald Trump’s Open Bigotry?
C-SPAN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Politico’s Susan Glasser did a podcast last week with Max Boot and Eliot Cohen, both of whom are Republican foreign policy hawks deeply disturbed by the election of Donald Trump. But Boot is clear-eyed enough to see that the biggest damage Trump is doing…
Quote of the Day: Boarding Pass Scanners Are Just “Beedoop Machines”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday’s big social media event was a series of tweets from supermodel Chrissy Teigen, who was on board an ANA flight to Tokyo when it suddenly turned around and headed back to Los Angeles. The reason, it turned out, was a manifest problem: the plane…
New Zealand Study Provides More Support for Lead-Crime Hypothesis
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Guess what? There’s another lead-crime study out! You can feel the excitement, can’t you? But this time there’s a twist: it’s a prospective study of data from Dunedin, New Zealand’s fourth-largest city, and the accompanying press release says bluntly, “We found no clear indication that…