Politics

Federal budget cuts are a blow to evidence-based medical training

Tuesday the Trump administration closed a website that students in nursing school used. You might never have heard of Guideline.gov,…

6 years ago

How one California county is criminalizing bad grades

Riverside County says its Youth Accountability Team provides mentorship. A lawsuit says it funnels kids to the criminal justice system.…

6 years ago

Mission: Impossible — Fallout is the most entertaining blockbuster of the summer

This movie has it all: Tom Cruise doing insane stunts, a kernel of a conscience, and Henry Cavill’s moustache. In…

6 years ago

Paul Ryan just let Trump off the hook on Putin

When it comes to Trump and Putin, Republicans have made their choice. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir…

6 years ago

Papa John’s founder said it was “a mistake” to resign after he used the n-word

He doesn’t seem very sorry for what he did. It seemed like a reasonable consequence: After using the n-word during…

6 years ago

The government is making it easier for “dark money” donors to go unnamed

The IRS will no longer ask the NRA and other nonprofit groups to disclose donors. The United States government is…

6 years ago

Why Trump’s Putin meeting was worse than you think

It’s not just that Trump trashed America’s intelligence community — it’s that he did so while getting very little from…

6 years ago

Astronomers discovered 10 new moons of Jupiter. Where have they been hiding?

Jupiter now has 79 moons, including a new weird one that may explain why there are so many. Jupiter is…

6 years ago

The (mostly) true story of hobo graffiti

What we know about hobo graffiti comes from hobos — a group that took pride in embellishing stories. Hobos, or…

6 years ago

Live results for the Alabama runoff election

Will a Trump critic triumph in Alabama? Alabama on Tuesday holds a runoff election for a highly contested House race…

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