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TV’s Year of Big Disappointments
This is, admittedly, and somewhat hyperbolically, a grim picture to paint. But I’m not writing about disappointment and the year in TV only because I feel disappointed in the...
How Big Pharma Is Wrecking the Inflation Reduction Act
Earlier this month, the consumer watchdog Public Citizen released a report outlining how four of the 10 drugs subject to negotiation would have faced competition from less expensive generic...
Democracy Is No Bulwark Against Oligarchy
None of the Founders fretted as much about oligarchy as Adams; he was writing about its dangers as early as 1766, and in 1785 he urged that the Pennsylvania...
The Intolerable Life Cycle of Debt and Death
Yet debt is strangely equal opportunity. One study found that problem debt almost doubled the odds for considering suicide even controlling for age, gender, employment, and experience of traumatic...
The Year of the Israeli Settler
Eiland likes to pose as a hardened paratrooper: a no-bullshit blusterer, ignorant of political chicanery, who is merely applying cold analytical logic to a military problem. But his problem—Israel’s...
Trump Wants to Bring Back the American Imperium
It may not surprise you that Trump mangled his facts about Panama, overstating by more than 600 percent the number of Americans who died building the Canal (only some of them...
Trump Adviser Somehow Makes Greenland Threat Even Worse
In the least surprising revelation ever, Donald Trump’s adviser Corey Lewandowski said the president-elect’s dream of annexing Greenland was all to boost his own ego—and acted like that was...
A Quick Reminder on the Trump Organization’s Tax Evasion in Panama
Donald Trump has an outstanding tax evasion case in Panama, the same country he’s just publicly accused of financial wrongdoing, according to Newsweek.Trump railed against Panama’s commerce policies while...
MAGA Is Freaking Out Over Biden Sparing Lives of Death Row Prisoners
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row, before Donald Trump could return to office and carry out his planned “execution spree.”“I...
Luigi Mangione’s Lawyer Rips Eric Adams for Perp Walk Photoshoot
Luigi Mangione’s lawyer slammed Mayor Eric Adams during a hearing Monday, after the embattled New York politician made public statements about her client. “I’m very concerned about my client’s right...
