Is conversation a lost art, or is it just evolving? Journalist Joshua Johnson and social entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie answer questions on everything from the male loneliness crisis to what it actually ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has already funneled at least $366 million into the midterms to try to make sure voters elect Republicans.

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The right has been consolidating the media for three decades, and the left keeps sleeping through it.

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For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country...

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On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

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I’m not a fan of country music. It’s a different story for many friends who attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival last year. For days leading up to the concert and throughout the evening my newsfeed...

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Can we eat our way to a stronger democracy? Civic leader Anuj Gupta believes that food is one of our last common denominators. Drawing on a decade spent bringing together strangers for shared meals, h...

Good Trouble Vegas is co-sponsoring this event with the Las Vegas Save Democracy Coalition.  Starting at 11:00 am, we will have a creative art project for kids, and for the adults, protest sign ...

Keeping Epstein in the news, city by city.

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Philosopher Meghan Sullivan and space architect Ariel Ekblaw don't usually work at the same altitude ... but put them in a room together, and they'll answer the big questions. Drawing on wisdom from A...

As today’s guest, Ami Fields Meyer, reminds us in order to take back our future in this era of authoritarianism we need to get in league with a lot of different people.

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The Trump White House seriously studied how to "cancel" habeas corpus, your right to know why the government has arrested you.

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Like a petulant child, Trump pulls the welcome mat from the People’s House

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The Trump White House seriously studied how to "cancel" habeas corpus, your right to know why the government has arrested you.

Don’t tell me you care about drug smuggling when you just had the pardoned dark-web-drug-king-pin as your keynote speaker.

Culture and narrative that resists technology extraction.

THE COURAGE OF CONVICTION: Jacob Coxon walked away from a massive Anthropic equity payout last week. Millions on the table.

THE COURAGE OF CONVICTION: Jacob Coxon walked away from a massive Anthropic equity payout last week. Millions on the table.

What federal employees were reportedly told to do.

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Is authoritarianism winning, or is democracy just failing to deliver? Communications strategist Sally Kohn lays out how democracy has evolved before and why it must evolve again, into what she calls "...

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Plus Jim calls out Trump’s latest 9/11 lies.

Plus Jim points out how the Trump administration has become very pro-data center.

Explore the urgent climate crisis affecting Nepal's communities. Discover the impacts of floods, losses, and adaptation needs in the Himalayas.

She dug through public records, built a map of the companies cashing in on Trump’s crackdown, and people used it — protests, boycotts, hundreds of millions in city money pulled from one bank.

So far.

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