Most Gun Laws Aren’t Backed Up By Evidence. Here’s Why.
California, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images In the first month of 2023, 25 people lost…
Americans Are Lonely. That Has Political Consequences.
Americans are spending more and more time alone, and more than a third reported experiencing “serious loneliness” in 2021. The director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development — the…
Everyone Agrees That Universal Pre-K Is Important. So Why Don’t More States Have It?
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images California is in the middle of implementing a plan that will create a free, universal pre-K program (known as transitional kindergarten) for every…
New Yorkers Aren’t The Only Ones Who Really Dislike George Santos
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. In one of America’s most enduring myths, President George Washington damaged his father’s cherry tree with…
How Donald Trump’s Unusual Presidential Comeback Could Go
With his November announcement that he would seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump joined a rarified subsection of a rarified group: a former president who sought a…
Iranian illegal immigrant on terror watch list caught near southern border: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Texas law enforcement arrested an Iranian illegal immigrant at the southern border whose name and date of birth subsequently turned out to be a match on the FBI’s terror…
Washington state Dems want to force Americans to vote in elections
More than a dozen Washington state Democrats have introduced a bill that would make voting in the state compulsory for residents. The bill to establish “Universal Civic Duty Voting,” introduced…
Michigan House Democrats vote to move state’s presidential primary to end of February
Michigan House Democrats voted Tuesday to move the state’s presidential primary to the fourth week of February and become a part of a new group of states slated to lead…
Biden admin keeps pushing for sweeping immigration bill, including amnesty, two years into migrant crisis
The Biden administration is beginning 2023 to renew its push to get a sweeping immigration bill through Congress that it introduced two years ago when it first entered office —…
Nevada seeks to close loophole on sex trafficking: perpetrators who lure kids face automatic life sentence
A new bill in the Nevada legislature would require sex traffickers who attempt to lure juveniles (or law enforcement posing as children) to serve jail time, closing a legal loophole…