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During a press briefing Monday, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker let loose that the special counsel’s investigation into alleged Russian collusion with the Donald Trump 2016 election campaign was drawing to a close. Whitaker made the comments during a Monday during a…
The partial government shutdown may be over, but its economic ramifications are not — in fact, some of the costs of the five-week shutdown will never be recovered. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Monday estimated that the shutdown cost…
The pile of Medicare-for-all plans just keeps growing. A new contender is Medicare for America, put forth by Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). It was heavily informed by the work of Yale professor Jacob Hacker. I caught…
A “blue wave” swept Democrats into the House during the 2018 midterm elections, and now that they’re there, a new poll shows that most Americans want them to do one of the main things they said they would: investigate President…
Identical twins have virtually identical DNA. So you’d think if a set of twins both sent in a DNA sample for genetic ancestry testing, they’d get the exact same results, right? Not necessarily, according to a recent investigation by the…
The first time someone asked me if my novel, “Talent,” had “screen potential,” I was living in Los Angeles. I thought the question was a quirk of the place—a city where most writers are screenwriters and lots of people are…
