New research shows that children of immigrants were nearly twice as likely to become rich as the children of people born in the United States.
Immigration is the key to American exceptionalism.
If you don’t know a handful of women who’ve had an abortion, you’re not morally righteous or statistically anomalous; you’re just not the kind of person women trust with their secrets.
Ioffe: Every time I’m asked by Americans do Russians really believe this stuff… as if we don’t have the same thing happening here. You have 40% of the American population that was convinced in just one year that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election…
The people who know Putin the best -- people I know in Russia -- are worried about his recent nuclear statement. The people who know him the least are saying it's cheap talk.
The people who formerly defended Trump for cutting off weapons to Ukraine unless Zelensky delivered dirty tricks to Trump's re-election campaign ... are maybe a half-day away from posting their "I stand with Ukraine" hashtags
Just got a phone call from a nice lady at @IDPH with my COVID test results from January 3. Said they’ve been slammed trying to finish up all of last summer’s tornado warnings.
“Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or 200-year catastrophe would be a 10% increase over pre-pandemic levels.
So, 40% is just unheard of.”
Two years on, Omicron burning through both the vaccinated & unvaccinated, the stores in my city have signs on the doors announcing “We are out of COVID test kits.” Two for $25, but all the tea in China couldn’t buy you one right now. A national embarrassment of epic proportion.
🚨#BREAKING: Emergency personnel responding to rooftop fire near Rockefeller Center in New York City
📌#Manhattan l #NY
Smoke can be seen billowing from an office building rooftop. Reports indicate evacuations are underway on the building’s upper floors.