The Uncomfortable Truth About Consent Education
As the Cornell rape allegations continue to roil beyond college campuses and into the homes of families across the…
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Pete Hegseth’s Firing Squad Livestream Is Finding Fans in the Defense Industry
“I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.” So said Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of…
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Elon Musk Hopes His New Factory Will Help AI Supplant Life on Earth
The world’s richest man has a vision of the universe’s future with little role for humanity—and is rushing ahead to…
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Elon Musk Is the Midterms’ Biggest Disinformation Risk
Over the weekend, a poorly constructed and very obviously fake claim about Texas Democratic Senate candidate James…
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Wildlife Populations Have Plunged Globally, But Some Buck the Trend
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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Homeland Security Raids Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Residence
Federal officers raided Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home early Monday morning, reportedly related to an…
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Your Questions About Kristan Hawkins and the Campus Anti-Abortion Movement, Answered
On Friday, I hosted a Reddit AMA, prompting the Internet to ask me anything about my coverage of anti-abortion activist…
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Trump Blames Ukraine—Not His Iran War—for Our Skyrocketing Fuel Prices
President Donald Trump keeps pointing the finger at everyone for surging fuel prices but himself. Over the weekend, he…
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Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Grifting Scandal Keeps Getting Worse
Are Kimberly Guilfoyle’s days as the US ambassador to Greece numbered? Amid multiple reports alleging outright…
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An Extreme Summer Workout Left This Hockey Standout on Life Support
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Matthew…
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After ICE Shooting, Progressives Want New York’s Police Commissioner to Step Down
The ICE shooting of a 28-year-old in the Bronx on Thursday has provoked an uproar among New Yorkers, who rushed to the…
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Amid Backlash, Surveillance Company Flock Is Cutting Staff
Flock Safety, the AI-powered traffic camera company that has everyone from Josh Hawley to Bernie Sanders angry, might…
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Logging Took Trees the Bears Called Home, so the Haida Nation Built Them New Dens
This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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Stop the Steal Never Stopped
When the FBI showed up at a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize hundreds of boxes of 2020 election records…
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David Flippo Has Close Ties to Accused Fraudster Whose Company Spent Lavishly on His Behalf
In June 2025, as the 2026 midterm elections were starting to heat up, a newly formed company named Arizona Land Reserve…
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The Midterm Spending Bonanza Is Threatening Democracy Like Never Before
Big money has long dominated American politics, with wealthy donors, corporations, and special interests dumping tons…
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Rep. Max Miller’s Girlfriend Was Just Indicted
On Thursday, the woman Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) has been dating for nearly two years was indicted by a grand jury on…
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Trump Tries—Yet Again—to Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook
On Friday, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new committee to investigate Federal Reserve Governor…
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You’re Funding Trump’s New Ads
Donald Trump promised to stop using taxpayer money to run campaign-style ads celebrating himself and his administration…
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Pete Hegseth Wants to Livestream a Snuff Film
This week, President Donald Trump approved the military’s first execution by firing squad since 1945. The Pentagon,…
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How a Defunct White Supremacist State Became a Cult Favorite on the Right
Last year, Rep. Mike Collins, a second-term Georgia Republican who is challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff this fall,…
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The Delirious, Dance-Heavy Propaganda of Russia’s International Festival of Youth
“Russia,” Steven Seagal declared not long ago, “is not interested in conquering the world. We’re not interested in…
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My Weird Book Interview on Michael Cohen’s Podcast
When I began the publicity push for How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America, a friend…
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Why This Long-Sought, Bipartisan Senate Deal Has Environmentalists Feuding
The so-called lame duck session of Congress after November’s midterm elections could be momentous for clean energy, as…
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The Giant Power of Tiny Parks
A velvety butterfly called the coastal green hairstreak once peppered the fog-capped hills of San Francisco. But then…
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DHS Shoots New York Man With 5-Year-Old in Car
A federal immigration agent shot a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, the latest of nearly two dozen such…
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Trump Calls on AI to Speed Up Science—While Continuing to Defund It
“We tamed electricity, invented the light bulb, developed the airplane, harnessed the atom, unleashed the power of…
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Abdul El-Sayed Criticized Obama. Is That a Scandal?
When Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign announced that Barack Obama would join him on the campaign trail later this month, media…
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s Advance in Brazil’s Election Is Grim News for the Climate
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
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“The Single Most Toxic Issue in the Midterms”: How America Turned on Data Centers.
America is hopelessly divided along party lines. That’s a stubborn fact, we’re told, and the polling bears it out:…
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Martin Soto Went Out for Diapers. He Came Home Eight Months Later.
Martin Soto, a Peruvian man thrown into solitary confinement after organizing a hunger and labor strike inside the…
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Trump Administration Plans to Have Its Own Lawyers Represent Migrant Kids
The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in…
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Fear Kept Immigrants Away From Medicaid. Now Many Can’t Come Back.
Laura doesn’t know what she’s going to do when her medication runs out. For years, she relied on Medi-Cal, California’s…
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Trump Says Voter Fraud is Rampant. The Evidence Says Otherwise.
If you’ve ever listened to President Trump talk about our elections, you might hear something like this: Voter fraud is…
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Study: Shock Gloves Traumatized Army Volunteers
A newly released military study paints a frightening picture of the electric shock gloves ICE recently purchased by the…
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Artificial Goes After Our Silicon Valley Overlords. Just Not Very Well.
The world premiere of Artificial, the new movie centered around the rise of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as he led an unstable…
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