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Here’s What It Looks Like When a Typhoon Devastates Your City
Well before Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines on November 8, 2013, weather watchers knew the storm would be terrible. But with more than 6,300 confirmed deaths and billions of dollars in...
View ArticleHow Ebola Caused a Hunger Crisis in Liberia
The news out of Liberia has been upbeat lately, with fewer and fewer cases of the deadly Ebola virus being reported. But even as the direct threat posed by the disease appears to be receding, experts...
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How a War-Shattered African Nation Gave Birth to a Heavy-Metal Scene
When the dust cleared and the war formally ended in 2002, Angolans looked back on their previous 40 years and saw little more than violence and bloodshed. After 350 years of Portuguese rule, the...
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Is the Gates Foundation Still Investing in Private Prisons?
One year after Mother Jones reported on multi-million-dollar investments made on behalf of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that appeared to contradict the foundation’s mission, the...
View ArticleWe Could Soon Be Spending a Lot More Money Fighting Ebola
Funding for the fight against Ebola could soon increase sharply. The omnibus spending bill currently being negotiated in Congress will reportedly include most of the $6.18 billion that President...
View ArticleThe Spending Bill Includes a Huge Insurance Industry Giveaway Too
UPDATE: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) managed to single-handedly hold up the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act’s renewal last night, allowing it to expire at the end of the year. In a statement, Sen. Charles...
View ArticleWill Private Prisons Finally Be Subject to the Freedom of Information Act?
Anyone can use the federal Freedom of Information Act to request records about prisons owned and operated by the government. Information about prisoner demographics, violent incidents, and prison...
View ArticleThis New Report Explains Exactly How the Afghan Economy Will Fall Apart
When then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld toured a reconstruction center in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in 2004, he was gushing with optimism. “It is so clear that the Afghan people are winning the...
View ArticleThese Charts Show How Ronald Reagan Actually Expanded the Federal Government
One of the many, many problems Jeb Bush faces in his quest for the Oval Office is his break from Republican orthodoxy on president Ronald Reagan’s legacy. In 2012, Bush told a group of reporters that,...
View ArticleThe World’s 2 Richest Men Made $21 Billion Last Year
As everyone from Ted Turner to Drake has said, the hardest part of getting rich is making the first million. The rest just comes naturally. The fact that wealth begets more wealth was illustrated once...
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