CIS does not provide a comparison of the cost of welfare going to immigrant and non-immigrant households–presumably because such a comparison would have weakened its anti-immigrant case.
USA Today Provides a Platform for Anti-Immigration Think Tank’s Flawed Study
Nima Shirazi on Iran Deal, Mark Trahant on Native Americans
The debate over the Iran deal has featured a wealth of misinformation about Iran and the pact itself. Plus: If indigenous people are, as the New York Times said, an “important political constituency,” why do we see so little news about them?
Action Alert: NYT Gives a False Pass to US on Cluster Bomb Sales
The New York Times describes the United States as one of the countries that hasn’t signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions “but have abided by its provisions.” This is just wrong, as the United States continues to make and sell cluster bombs.
Did ‘Ferguson Effect’ Cause Murder Wave? No. Is There a Murder Wave? Unclear
There’s a more fundamental problem with a New York Times story that suggested that criticizing police violence is (maybe) responsible for a rise in homicides: It’s not clear that the rise in homicides that the story is pegged to actually exists.
US Leads World in Credulous Reports of ‘Lagging Behind’ Russia
The Washington Post and the Federal Reserve Cult
Missing From Reports of Yemeni Carnage: Washington’s Responsibility
Reports left out the information that made this particularly relevant to the papers’ mostly American readership: The US government is actively backing the air war in Yemen that killed those civilians.