‘The word super is the best word of all,’ Trump says.

When Robert Mueller found no smoking gun on collusion, Democrats largely turned to other matters. But Trump and his backers never stopped pushing their lies.

Shoot the moon! Ten hypotheses, ten charts, and no payoff for native-born workers.

The global trillionaire count returned to zero not long after SpaceX's IPO. Market fluctuations show the danger of imposing cash tax bills on stock-pri ...

On Monday, I was reading about the alleged 2024 rape of a Cornell student. Several fraternity brothers allegedly drugged and raped her when

The great unraveling © OpenMapTiles; © OpenStreetMap via The Atlantic. A smiling man in fatigues walking into a train car carrying an assault rifle was not something one sees in the U.S. But this was ...

Six tech titans, one president, zero proofreaders.

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.

A look at the state of student journalism in light of the Cornell sexual assault case, and much more.

Several factors make for high water levels, and they conspired to worsen the storm surge that flooded coastal areas from North Carolina to New York.

Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?

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Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez.

In the piece Dave Willner and I published last week about why "the apocalypse won't be sexy," we discussed how the real threat wasn't "rogue" out of control AI tools, but rather humans doing stupid shit, sometimes because they stop thinking in the presence of these AI machines. A deeply reported Bloomberg article by Ben...

Damning reports confirm dozens of casualties amongst US navy sailors and marines in Iranian attacks this month, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seize another American unmanned submarin...

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

These people are pure scum, and should all be in prison with their God-King: Despite the flub, some right-wing commentators and outlets praised Schmitt for the exchange. Pro-Trump influencer Benny Joh...

This is the grave of Quanah Parker. Born somewhere around 1845, perhaps in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma (surprisingly beautiful area for the region), Parker is a very American story. His mother w...

Rescuing a field from disappearing

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Susan Collins is very concerned — and she should be. As a politician who has only run for one office in her life and held the same seat for nearly 30 years, the Maine senator is facing a possible loss...

“I tell you what, if we want to ruin sports, put government in charge of them,” Beshear said Sunday on CNN while commenting on attacks ads over anti-trans legislation.

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

The FBI director was spotted in a photo with an FBI informant suspected of being a double agent.

Leave for the non-birthing parent after a new baby arrives gives the family an opportunity to bond.

Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point out, this organization was named in the dumbest possible way by some incompetent people within the Biden administration, which only fed into the [ahem] disinformation around it. The program, a part of DHS, was an advisory group with no enforcement capabilities, and was tasked...

Emma Jacobs  Waging Nonviolence The climate movement needs the kind of leverage that comes from shutting down the economy — and it can only get there through deep organizing with workers. Climate a…