Beyond the money, the groups have hosted executives from Meta, Exelon and Entergy at their conferences, and caucus aides toured a data center with a think tank that has received funding from Google, M...

Beyond the money, the groups have hosted executives from Meta, Exelon and Entergy at their conferences, and caucus aides toured a data center with a think tank that has received funding from Google, M...

Beyond the money, the groups have hosted executives from Meta, Exelon and Entergy at their conferences, and caucus aides toured a data center with a think tank that has received funding from Google, M...

One day in springtime John couldn’t stop talking and the blue of the sky seemed as audible to him as the peal of a bell, and as he walked the long Elysian fields of campus he began to laugh, at the th...

The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.

I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...

The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...

Myriam Gurba descends into the darkness of a new book by Veronica Gonzalez Peña

The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...

The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...

The greatest love story in Rock ’n’ Roll came from Portland, Oregon.  The one and only time I saw Dead Moon perform in 2004, I was already a superfan, on the threshold of what would be a long career ...

The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state ...

Vance holds a stake worth up to $1 million in the fund and could collect millions more if its investments pay off.

Banning members of Congress and government officials from trading stocks is highly popular, even among many rank and file lawmakers—but not among the congressional leaders who control which bills adva...

Vance holds a stake worth up to $1 million in the fund and could collect millions more if its investments pay off.

3 p.m. April 2 Adults hide many things about adulthood. Like, for instance, the fact of colonoscopies. This is the dreaded test adults over 45 must endure in order to make sure we haven’t got colon ca...

Once upon a time in the early 2000s, when I was very young and more impressionable than I realized at the time, every single fucking teen movie was about An Ugly (Glasses-Wearing) Girl Who Is Finally ...

Canadian pro-democracy activist Charlie Angus raises the alarm, with Nathan Munn

All I want to talk about is the frame in Filipiñana, because it doesn’t work like any movie I’ve ever seen. But first, some backstory. The Godzilla Minus Zero trailer dropped a couple weeks ago. It’s...

Biden’s former national security adviser collected $560,000 in speaking fees from private equity firms, corporations, and exclusive gatherings for investors and executives in 2025. He now backs withho...

This whale is watching you and judging you for your incursion into his kingdom. His judgement is ruthless but resolves in your favor. You are cleansed.

Biden’s former national security adviser collected $560,000 in speaking fees from private equity firms, corporations, and exclusive gatherings for investors and executives in 2025. He now backs withho...

Biden’s former national security adviser collected $560,000 in speaking fees from private equity firms, corporations, and exclusive gatherings for investors and executives in 2025. He now backs withho...

The aspect ratio is the message, says J.D. Connor; Anna Merlan’s teenage dreamboat

A new FEC filing reveals the House Democrat campaign arm's latest Palantir lobbying firm fundraising haul.

Every single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes.

New speculative fiction from Annalee Newitz

Union baristas have shown that our collective power can win meaningful change, and now we’re calling on organizations, political parties, and elected officials to stand with us and boycott Starbucks until our demands are met.

Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change

How the Netherlands became the model for cycling infrastructure

One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.

One more bouquet for Dolly Parton, from Jídé Salawu

The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.

In 1995, Newt Gingrich lobotomized Congress’s technical brain trust. It should be rebuilt.

One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.

One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.