
Will Cutting Credit Card Swipe Fees Lower Prices? Who Really Gets the Savings
The Credit Card Competition Act could reduce the fees retailers pay to accept cards. But lower merchant costs do not automatically become lower prices. We
Sherafy’s 2026 California Voter Guide brings our election research into one place, with clear recommendations and links to the full evidence behind each one.

The Credit Card Competition Act could reduce the fees retailers pay to accept cards. But lower merchant costs do not automatically become lower prices. We

Israeli settler attacks are disrupting Palestine’s olive harvest and damaging families’ livelihoods. This investigation traces the documented violence, destroyed trees, military access restrictions, economic losses

A family says dozens of women at a Texas ICE detention facility lost phone access and were ordered to stay on their beds after a

Six months before 9/11, *The Lone Gunmen* depicted an airliner heading for the World Trade Center. We trace the original broadcast, the writers’ accounts, pre-9/11

A 2026 executive order invoked federal liability protections for glyphosate production, while the Supreme Court separately restricted certain Roundup cancer lawsuits. Here is what those

Flock once advertised ways to exclude certain vehicles from law-enforcement camera systems. Police can still suppress alerts for selected plates, but that does not mean

A viral claim says data centers have contracts requiring cities to shut off residents’ water first during droughts. Signed agreements in Ohio and Virginia show

Five agricultural trading companies are said to control most of the world’s grain. The claim is much less settled than it sounds. A recent shipping-data

Danny Trejo says he is not pro-ICE, while his son says he did not know Ben Shapiro was behind Pawn Shop until filming began. The

Some people appear certain that their perspective is reality and that anyone who disagrees must be wrong. Psychology offers a more useful explanation: naive realism,