A Little Law Gives Hope That Government Can Suck Less and Make People’s Lives Better

When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection...

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How Lindsey Graham, Eager to Serve Trump, Became a Useful Idiot for Putin

Within moments of the early Sunday morning announcement that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had died,...

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Scientists Ponder a New Climate Defense Tactic: Throwing Shade at El Niño

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of...

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A World Cup Star Can Be “Babygirl.” But For Now, He’s Mostly AI.

As someone who watches too much soccer and knows Erling Haaland as perhaps the world’s most...

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DOJ Subpoenas New York Times Journalists Following Air Force One Security Report

The New York Times said that at least four of its journalists received subpoenas on Friday from the...

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The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin Part 1

Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company,...

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Lawsuit Accuses ICE and Private Prison Contractors of Abusing a Disabled Detainee

On Monday,  Ulises Peña López, represented by Disability Law United and Pangea...

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Nature’s Ingenious Survival Strategies Are No Match for Human Destruction

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as...

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ICE Keeps Using The Same Justification For Killing Drivers

On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado...

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Graham Platner Says He’s Out. Now What?

Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign...

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Cuba May Be in Shambles, but Miami’s New Museum Keeps the Bay of Pigs Alive

Eduardo Zayas-Bazán was a 24-year-old lawyer when he left Cuba for the United States and...

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Administration’s Fuzzy Math Will Undermine Energy Efficiency Savings

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of...

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Trump Can’t Stop Talking About Communists

When Donald Trump gets into a loop, it’s hard to get him out. He’ll just talk in a...

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Trump Strikes Iran and Threatens War Crimes—Again

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the US would continue strikes on Iran for a second...

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Belgium’s Trump Dance Exposed the Collapse of the President’s Soft Power

Moments after scoring Belgium’s fourth goal against the hapless US Men’s National...

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Trump Says He’ll Fast-Track Private Gas Plants to Power AI Data Centers

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The Secret Origins of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket

Last month, the Supreme Court issued a number of landmark opinions involving transgender rights,...

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DHS Is Spending $1.5 Billion to Block ICE Oversight

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-run detention facilities from the...

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Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised...

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The Democratic Party Failed Us With Graham Platner

A woman who dated Graham Platner said he sexually assaulted her, allegations that followed the...

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Trump’s “Personal Vendetta” Against Wind Is Messing With American Livelihoods

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US Soccer Doesn’t Need a Big, Orange Thumb on the Scale

As the US men’s national soccer team prepares to face off against Belgium on Monday night,...

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In Defense of Taylor Swift’s Bad Taste

“The more I read, the more embarrassed I am for everyone involved.” Secondhand...

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Wall Street Just Won’t Stop Financing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Expansion

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of...

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“Morally reprehensible”: Prediction Markets Offer Bets on Wildfires

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part...

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