Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in the Caribbean and launching airstrikes on alleged drug boats, fueling speculation that it is planning a major military operation against the government of Venezuela. This week, the situation escalated dramatically with the US seizing a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan […] Read more ›
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On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said […] Read more ›
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Among the many humiliations of being American in the current moment is this: Members of the tech right and the conservative ruling class continually fetishize objects of nerd culture while also displaying a willful inability to grasp the very basic messages those objects are sending. While there are certainly worse problems (e.g. white nationalism in […] Read more ›
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They’re growing miniature 3D brains from stem cells. These aren’t your fictional mad scientists’ brains in a vat; they’re organoids, and they grow in petri dishes. They’re also incredibly cool. We can, should, and will use cerebral organoids to discover new medical treatments, study brain development, reduce the demand for animal testing, and even power […] Read more ›
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It’s getting harder to find a job and easier to lose one. Employers are hiring workers at a steadily lower rate while laying them off at a rising one, according to data from the Chicago Federal Reserve. The unemployment rate has been ticking up, and job growth has been slowing. This said, our picture of […] Read more ›
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Across the far right, a paranoid prophecy has been taking hold: the belief that globalist elites want to take meat off the menu and replace it with insects. The charge has been spouted in one version or another by provocateurs like Tucker Carlson, Mike Cernovich, and Jordan Peterson, and repeated by countless accounts on social […] Read more ›
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ELIZABETH, New Jersey — When Donald Trump won the presidency last November, he did so with unprecedented levels of new support from Latino voters across the country. In big cities, towns, and suburbs around the country, these voters — both new, previously disengaged voters and former Democrats disillusioned with the status quo — flocked to […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Pentagon is moving to create new National Guard “quick reaction forces” to be used for crowd control around the country. What’s happening? National Guard […] Read more ›
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An inevitable part of getting old is no longer recognizing the names of celebrities and musicians. Slowly and steadily, the more famous young and younger people get, the more their names will seem like incoherent phrases muttered by someone losing their mind, a vegetable side dish, or some kind of cruel trick. At some point, […] Read more ›
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On September 15, Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show opening monologue included comments about the shooting of right-wing media figure Charlie Kirk and how the “MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.” Soon after, Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission and […] Read more ›
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It might now be a distant memory, but by the end of last winter, the average cost of a dozen eggs soared to a record high of $6.23. (It’s now at $3.49.) The cause was H5N1, a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza — or bird flu — that wild birds shed near farms as […] Read more ›
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Since President Donald Trump’s second term began, his administration’s approach to China has been arguably the toughest aspect of its foreign policy to parse. In part, that’s because the top members of Trump’s team haven’t always seemed to be on the same page with each other or with the president on the question of just […] Read more ›
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Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s attempt at creating an alternative to Wikipedia, is now live. Early analysis suggests that the site — powered by Musk’s xAI and fact-checked by Grok, the company’s right-leaning AI assistant — is already a sort of self-sustaining nuclear reaction of misinformation. More than anything, though, Grokipedia represents another front of Musk’s war […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump is clearly unpopular: Most Americans disapprove of his performance and millions recently turned out for “No Kings” protests. So why is it that so many major corporations and billionaires are either actively assisting Trump’s attack on democracy or else meekly complying with his dictates? The disconnect is, most likely, the result of […] Read more ›
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As recently as one year ago, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority was determined to reduce executive power. Joe Biden, a Democrat, was in the White House, and the Republican justices were very concerned that the executive branch was claiming “highly consequential power beyond what Congress could reasonably be understood to have granted.” To keep the […] Read more ›
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Many Americans are going to have sticker shock when they sign up for health insurance this year. For the roughly half of Americans who get insurance through their work, premiums are set to grow by another 6 percent on average, up to roughly $27,000 per year for family coverage. That is a 26 percent increase […] Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: A federal grand jury in Illinois has indicted six people, including a Democratic congressional candidate, for participating in a September protest outside an ICE facility […] Read more ›
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Hurricane Melissa plowed through the Caribbean on Tuesday as an enormous Category 5 storm, knocking out power lines, flooding hospitals, and killing dozens of people in its path. Already, the damage has been catastrophic. In Haiti, at least 23 people have died, the highest death toll so far, many from flash flooding after the storm […] Read more ›
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Hurricane Melissa, already one of the strongest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday morning as a Category 3 strength with winds at 120 miles per hour. It has now weakened to Category 2. The National Hurricane Center warned that Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic are facing dangerous flash floods and landslides. […] Read more ›
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Big news for the pursuit of artificial general intelligence — or AI that’s of human-level intelligence across the board. OpenAI, which describes its mission as “ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity,” finalized its long-in-the-works corporate restructuring plan yesterday. It might entirely change how we approach risks from AI, especially biological ones. A quick refresher […] Read more ›
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The Democratic Party has spent most of the past decade deciding to lose. Or so argues a new report from Welcome PAC, an organization that backs center-left candidates, so as to build “a big-tent Democratic Party.” It is no secret that the Democrats are in a sorry state. They’ve lost to an exceptionally unpopular Republican […] Read more ›
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