Where being poor is a recipe for early death; David Cameron's Panama Papers omnishambles; Ted Cruz is running circles around Donald Trump in delegate organizing.
A new paper from a team of economists led by Stanford's Raj Chetty has found that Americans in "the 1%" live 10 to 15 years longer than their counterparts in the bottom 1 percent of the income distribution.
The paper builds on a growing body of research about the health effects of inequality, including a study from last year finding that death rates are rising for middle-aged white Americans even as they decline for every other group.
But the disparity isn't inevitable. Chetty and his colleagues found that how long poor Americans live depends hugely on where they live. The Californian poor live longer than the Southern poor.
The authors suspect that state and local policies play a role in protecting the poor from death — especially paternalistic public health policies like smoking bans.
Among the many revelations in last week's Panama Papers data leak: The father of UK Prime Minister David Cameron was a director for an offshore investment fund run out of the Bahamas as a tax haven.
This raised legitimate questions about whether Cameron himself had benefited from the fund. Cameron replied to those questions very badly — first by saying it was a "private matter" and then by accusing his critics of trying to besmirch his father's memory.
Ultimately, Cameron admitted he'd had a stake in the fund. He also took the unprecedented step of releasing six years of tax returns, in an attempt to prove that he wasn't illegally or unethically dodging taxes.
Those returns raised more questions than they answered. In particular, Britons are wondering why the heck Cameron got a £200,000 cash gift from his mother in 2011.
The whole episode makes Cameron look, if not corrupt, certainly politically inept. His defenders are reduced to arguing that he's been trapped by his wealth into not understanding what common people do.
Of course, Iceland's disgraced former prime minister — and the officials in other countries where the Panama Papers threaten to create a full-blown political crisis — would kill for such problems.
The Trump campaign embarrassed itself. At one convention, the campaign urged supporters to vote for delegates who weren't on the ballot — then, trying to correct the error at the last minute, screwed it up again.
It's not just Colorado. Cruz's campaign is outhustling Trump's in states from Iowa to South Carolina, grabbing up remaining delegates even in states Trump crushed.
It is perhaps not surprising that this is the response of a candidate of whom staffers said (according to one former staffer in March), "Mr. Trump doesn't understand how delegates work."
All of the scrambling for delegates only matters if you believe that should Trump not win an outright majority of delegates before the convention, he'll lose a bunch of support after the first ballot and open the door to a brokered convention.
The phrase "it was as if an occult hand" has been showing up in newspaper stories for years, as if an occult hand were trying to sneak an inside joke past the copy desk.
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