Have Yourself a Porny Little Christmas
Kangah/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It could be the gift-giving, the mistletoe, or the spiked eggnog—but something about Christmas seems to make people want to get it on. In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, a group of researchers from Portugal and Indiana University analyzed Google searches between 2004 and 2014…
Obamacare Headed For Record Enrollment
This is true, but only for the federal exchange. Many of the largest state exchanges are open for several more weeks. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This just came in from CMS: Exchange open enrollment for 2018 coverage ended w/ approx 8.8M people enrolling in coverage. Great job to the…
We Found the Woman Whose Vote Tipped Control of Virginia’s Legislature
Virginia House of Delegates Democratic candidate Shelly Simonds celebrates her fleeting win with Latoya Breckenridge at Simonds’ victory celebration on Tuesday night.Latoya Breckenridge Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Latoya Breckenridge, a 34-year-old accountant from Newport News, Virginia, was on her way to a nail appointment on Tuesday when a friend…
Quote of the Day: Nothing in Writing, Please
Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From a Palm Beach Post story by Christine Stapleton and Lawrence Mower about Donald Trump’s purchase of Mar-a-Lago in the early 90s: Trump’s promise couldn’t be in writing, Trump attorney Rampell told the council, according to meeting minutes…
Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts Will Save Him Millions of Dollars
Donald Trump at his Trump Tower office in New York in 2013Dan Hallman/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Many of the arguments that Republicans have used to sell their tax bill are completely implausible. There is overwhelming reason to believe, for example, that the tax cut won’t pay for itself. Then there’s President Donald…
Is Illegal Immigration Responsible for the Decline in Labor Force Participation?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Why are prime-age men dropping out of the labor force? And what can we do about it? A few days ago the Two Jasons tackled this question and came up with very different answers. Here is Jason Richwine criticizing Jason Furman: How about restricting low-skill…