Proponents of Solitary Confinement Attempt to Stifle Reform
Studies repeatedly find no evidence that solitary makes prisons safer. Prisons that piloted alternative units that separate people from general…
Drain Lake Powell
There is a simple and straightforward way to start tackling the West's water problem: Get rid of Lake Powell. Drill…
Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential…
Organized Money: An AI Expert Explains the Hype
Part vaporware, part useful tool, AI’s utility is worth a discussion.
Trump’s Latest Catch-22 for Immigrants
Late last month, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services finalized a new rule broadly expanding the types of public benefits…
The Last Big Primary Night of the Year
Here’s what’s happening in Florida and across the country in key races.
Now You Vote; but Maybe You Won’t in Backsliding Missouri
Just how badly would Missouri’s Amendment 4 have failed if Gov. Mike Kehoe had left the initiative on the ballot…
The Companies That Got $83 Billion in Tax Breaks Last Year
All of them are tied to the data center build-out. Their tax breaks represent nearly half of the total all…
Left Anchor: A Biden Climate Retrospective
Joe Biden was the best American president on climate change by maybe three orders of magnitude. Yet it didn’t cement…
South Carolina: From Slaves to Bots
The state that was the foremost champion of unpaid human labor now fosters a new-age version of it.