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Pope Leo Condemns Trump’s “Unacceptable” Threat to Destroy Iran
“First of all we have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now. And it is true that some of them involve men, women,...
DeSantis Signs Vague Anti-Terrorism Law Masquerading as “Anti-Sharia”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a vague law Monday that gives a handful of state officials—including him—the ability to denote groups as terrorist organizations and revoke their nonprofit status....
People Love to Blame “Ultra-Processed Food.” It’s Unhelpful.
The problem, however, is that Nova was not designed to adjudicate the nutritional properties of individual foods. It is designed to understand population-level health outcomes. While a growing body...
Democrats Need New Stories
The MAGA figures pivoting to solar are stressing this distinction. Kellyanne Conway’s memo to American Energy First, detailing the results of the poll it commissioned, concludes by saying that...
How Low Can Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Go?
“Those people would say, if you ask them, ‘Hey, how do you like the presidency from the guy that’s, like, increasing your oil prices and maybe sending your son...
Trump Says There’s No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars
But now, Johnson and Thune have agreed on something that could have happened on Friday, or even weeks before. The sudden reversal seems to have come after Trump’s own...
MAGA Furious as Trump Restores Planned Parenthood Funding
“The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a Ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the Taxpayer, and will be...
Trump’s FTC Settles With Match Over Nightmare Dating App Case
The Senate seat was vacated when its previous occupant, Jay Collins, was appointed Florida’s lieutenant governor. Nathan’s campaign sought to downplay culture wars and instead elevate issues such as...
Trump’s “God Squad” Might Vote for a Whale’s Extinction This Week
We have been trained to view these meetings as dry regulatory disputes over administrative law or the “rational” weighing of economic interests. But what happens on Tuesday is a...
WTF Was Elon Musk Doing on a Phone Call With Trump About Iran?
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Nahendra Modi had a phone call on Tuesday to discuss the war in Iran. For no apparent reason, they were joined by...
