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60 Minutes Staff in Uproar After Bari Weiss’s Pro-Trump Censorship
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson continued:By releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, and President Trump recently calling for further investigations into...
Pam Bondi Threatened With Daily Fines Over Epstein Files Delay
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson continued:By releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, and President Trump recently calling for further investigations into...
Biden Moved These Men off Death Row. Trump Wants Them Back On.
That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in office he sat on the issue, only...
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Mamdani’s Public Grocery Store Idea
When studying food insecurity, scholars distinguish between “availability” (what is actually on the shelves) and “access” (what shoppers can afford). Particularly in American cities, it is overwhelmingly access, not...
The Year the Movies Went Big on Isolation
Retreating to sparsely populated and remote settings, these films did not attempt to build dense webs of social relations or to show their characters moving through the world.The plot...
The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation
Lo and behold, that started to happen during the presidency of Barack Obama. Obama’s OIRA administrator, Cass Sunstein, broadened cost-benefit’s scope to include, for instance, the calculation of benefits...
Video: Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive
new video loaded: Uber Clears Violent Felons to DriveOur reporter, Emily Steel, found that in many states, Uber’s guidelines allow people with serious criminal convictions to drive, as long...
The Nine Worst Trump Scandals of 2025
Bombs over Latin America: It’s giving Wag the Dog, if you ask me. The administration, seemingly hot to bring back neoconservative military conquest, soft-launched its latest regime change war...
The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
There was no shortage of bad news to cover in 2025. But I want to end the year by looking to the future and focusing on something more joyous:...
Is This What Got Ghislaine Maxwell Her Cushy Prison Transfer?
Newly released transcripts of Ghislaine Maxwell’s July interview with the Justice Department depict a surprisingly chilly relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, despite varied reports that the glitterati...
