Then Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy walks through the Capitol on the eve of his ouster. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHow McCarthy got into this mess, who’ll be speaker next, and more. House Republicans are in disarray after ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy in an unprecedented vote, scrambling to pick a replacement who can unify a caucus that has recently struggled to agree on key legislative priorities. The party’s more conservative... Read more ›
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An Amazon driver delivers some Prime packages. Amazon’s shipping service is one of several things the FTC says Amazon uses to squeeze sellers and raise prices for customers. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty ImagesWhy the FTC is going after your Prime subscription (and a few other things). The Big Tech antitrust reform movement has come for Amazon. On September 26, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued... Read more ›
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FTC chair Lina Khan gained widespread notoriety for criticizing how Amazon uses its power to harm competition and consumers. | Vox; Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Federal Trade Commission, led by longtime Amazon critic Lina Khan, finally makes its move. The Federal Trade Commission thinks the Everything Store is an illegal monopoly, and it’s suing the company to stop it — which could mean breaking up the company. In its lawsuit filed... Read more ›
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Dune grossed $400 billion at the box office, despite being released during the pandemic. | Warner Bros.Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services? That’s so 2021. Would you like to watch Dune, the big, sweeping sci-fi epic, starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya? If so, you can head over to Netflix, which started streaming the 2021 movie this week. Then again, if... Read more ›
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American Fiction and Perfect Days are two standouts on the fall festival circuit. | Toronto International Film FestivalIt’s a great time to be at the movies. Every fall brings its crop of new movies from around the world — comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more uncategorizable films that capture what it is to live in this historical moment. Audiences around the world get to see them at festivals first, whether they’re... Read more ›
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett (left) and Chief Justice John Roberts pause for photographs at the top of the steps of the west side of the Supreme Court following her investiture ceremony on October 1, 2021. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA SCOTUS case about disabled travelers is likely to end in a whimper. That’s probably the best possible outcome. Pretty much no one thinks that Deborah Laufer, the plaintiff in a civil... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift and the NFL, the ultimate capitalist crossover event. | Elsa/Getty ImagesEven Travis Kelce thinks it’s a bit much. Whether or not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are a match made in heaven, Taylor Swift and the NFL certainly are, commercially speaking. As Swift makes appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games and rumors swirl that the pop star is dating the tight end, a marketing gold mine has sprung... Read more ›
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Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attends a House Republican Conference news conference on January 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe House voted to remove McCarthy as speaker. The search for a successor is on — and could drag on for days. Now that California Rep. Kevin McCarthy has been removed as speaker of the House, the search is on for... Read more ›
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Look at how happy he is! | Getty ImagesYes, people on the internet are irritating. And yet. Two weeks ago, I saw a tweet that was written, I believe, with the sole purpose of annoying me. It wasn’t just a bad take; there are a lot of those on the internet. This one happened to nail all of my Personal Qualms With Society Today. It was indicative of all the... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesHe blames the collapse of moral education. But what about capitalism? One of the things you hear often these days is that America is becoming a more polarized country. As far as I can tell, almost no one quibbles with this claim. A recent essay in the Atlantic by columnist and author David Brooks makes a related but slightly different argument, which is that America is also becoming meaner.... Read more ›
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Maryland Cremation Services transporter Morgan Dean-McMillan gently moves the remains of a Covid victim onto a stretcher in a morgue in May 2020, in Silver Spring, Maryland. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe big divide on premature death isn’t between college grads and non-grads. It’s between high school dropouts and everyone else. For the past decade or so, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case have been promoting a particular story about... Read more ›
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The UN authorized a multilateral intervention in Haiti to help train and support the island nation’s police, pictured here in April, in combatting gang-related violence. | Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty ImagesThe world is intervening in Haiti — again. Once again, the international community will intervene in Haiti, this time to stabilize the security situation in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where gangs have terrorized civilians for the past two years. The... Read more ›
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FTC chair Lina Khan gained widespread notoriety for criticizing how Amazon uses its power to harm competition and consumers. | Vox; Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe Federal Trade Commission, led by longtime Amazon critic Lina Khan, finally makes its move. The Federal Trade Commission thinks the Everything Store is an illegal monopoly, and it’s suing the company to stop it — which could mean breaking up the company. In its lawsuit filed... Read more ›
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An Amazon driver delivers some Prime packages. Amazon’s shipping service is one of several things the FTC says Amazon uses to squeeze sellers and raise prices for customers. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty ImagesWhy the FTC is going after your Prime subscription (and a few other things). The Big Tech antitrust reform movement has come for Amazon. On September 26, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued... Read more ›
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Even in orbit, no dumping rules apply. | PM Images/Getty ImagesThe FCC is cracking down on space litterbugs, starting with Dish Network. We are surrounded by trash, and the Federal Communications Commission is trying to do something about it. Since we’re talking about the FCC, which regulates communications and airwaves, we’re not talking about the more well-known trash in the oceans and on the ground. This is the garbage way,... Read more ›
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Taylor Swift and the NFL, the ultimate capitalist crossover event. | Elsa/Getty ImagesThe NFL (Taylor’s version) is extremely good for business. Whether or not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are a match made in heaven, Taylor Swift and the NFL certainly are, commercially speaking. As Swift makes appearances at Kansas City Chiefs games and rumors swirl that the pop star is dating the tight end, a marketing gold mine has... Read more ›
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Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attends a House Republican Conference news conference on January 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesMcCarthy will call a vote Tuesday on whether he will remain the leader of the House. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will call a vote Tuesday on whether he will remain the leader of the House. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has... Read more ›
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Justices Amy Coney Barrett, left, and Ketanji Brown Jackson visit before President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address in 2023. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJustices considering a case against the CFPB seem unlikely to trigger a second Great Depression. Imagine that the Supreme Court of the United States spent an entire morning debating whether penguins are the primary cause of colon cancer or whether John F. Kennedy was... Read more ›
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Google’s office in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhich search engine do you use, and why is it Google? A judge will soon decide. The first big trial of the modern Big Tech antitrust movement is here: On September 12, the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google’s search engine monopoly began. What’s at stake? Oh, nothing much — just the future of the internet. Or maybe the future of... Read more ›
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The flags of Ukraine and the United States are attached to a backpack on October 1, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. | Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty ImagesIn the US and across Europe, politics are complicating support for Ukraine. Western unity around Ukraine is starting to strain as the conflict grinds on with largely static front lines, and as the politics in the United States and Europe become more volatile... Read more ›
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