On Friday, D.C. City Council member Trayon White Sr. posted a video to his Facebook page in which he blamed a sudden…
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Molly Osberg is a writer on the East Coast who reports on crime, class, and the U.S. healthcare system. Her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing collection.
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The Trump administration is reportedly set to announce that Larry Kudlow will replace Gary Cohn as the head of the…
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On Tuesday, the Mississippi Senate passed a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks, as reported by the Clarion Ledger.…
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In the next batch of criminal proceedings against protesters at Trump’s 2017 inauguration, federal prosecutors plan…
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On Thursday, a study released in the New England Journal of Medicine found that gun accidents nationwide fall by…
When I asked Lenny Pozner whether comments from the “trolls and haters” were still rolling in, here is what he said:…
This morning the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, an organization that has said Vladimir Putin is “more right”…
Today, the Trump administration proposed new rules for short-term insurance plans. It’s a move that would allow…
A major feature of living in a country where young men shoot their classmates about every 60 hours or so, and where…
On Tuesday, Facebook, a company that has recently pivoted from pandering to conservative propagandists to ham-fisted…
On Sunday night, the attorney general of New York filed a 38-page suit against the Weinstein Company and its…
A 35-year-old woman in crisis died Wednesday after being administered a “chemical restraint” by paramedics called in…