Policy Archive
Archives for December 2016


Sundance’s lovely, little seen drama wrapped its four-season run with beauty and forgiveness.


The agency said it will have to take legal action otherwise.


It was all captured by a taxi’s dashboard camera.


Adam Ruins Everything looks at one of the ways the US criminal justice system is tilted against the poor.


With drivers behind the wheels.


Google thought Detroit was its competition on self-driving cars. It’s really Uber.


He also vetoed a six-week ban — but the 20-week ban is a bigger threat to Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights.


The self-driving car project — founded in 2009 — is graduating from the Google X moonshot lab to become an independent Alphabet company.


A window into the big fight over the Democratic Party’s future.


Kathy Oller is an Obamacare enrollment official in southeastern Kentucky who is hoping things will change.


Ruby Atkins gets her health insurance through Obamacare. She’d like to see the program repealed.


Debbie Mills appreciates the insurance she gets through Obamacare. But she voted for the candidate who wants to dismantle the program.

In Whitley County, Kentucky, the uninsured rate declined 60 percent under Obamacare. So why did 82 percent of voters there support Donald Trump?


Almost two years after Uber ransacked Carnegie Mellon’s robotics lab, a few of the top engineers have left the company.


But he doesn’t exactly mean it the same way Trump does.