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What Next: TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
The agency is trying to stop “censorship” on social platforms by keeping private companies from spending their ad dollars as they see fit.
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Slate Money | Megayacht Foam Parties Are In
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Amicus | “No Right Is Safe”
The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v CASA sent American democracy over a cliff.
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What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
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Political Gabfest | Let’s Plunge, New York
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What Next | Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In
A new New York City has asserted itself.
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ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Wil...
Behind the scenes at VidCon—and 20 years of YouTube.
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What Next | The Lawsuit Scaring Protesters
What can demonstrators today learn from a financially disastrous outcome for one advocacy organization in the Standing Rock protests?
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Money is One Hell of...
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What Next: Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?
President Trump’s always talked about keeping America out of conflicts abroad. Six months into his second term, here we are.
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What Next: TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data...
And they don’t want you to know.
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ICYMI | Is Partiful Cancelled?
How Gen-Z’s favorite event invite app got into hot water and why there just isn’t a good online invitation option anymore.
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Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords
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Amicus | The Many Compromises of Elena Kagan
A brilliant liberal justice is all of a sudden joining the conservatives on some questionable cases. What’s up?
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What Next: TBD | We Deport. You Laugh?
Why the White House is memeing its mass deportations.
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Political Gabfest | Massive Ordnance Penetrator
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ICYMI: The Content Creators Crashing the Diddy ...
And why they’re beating legacy media at their own game.
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What Next | Kristi Noem Understands the Assignment
How the DHS Secretary emerged as the face of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
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What Next | The War Netanyahu Always Wanted
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What Next | Vaccine Skeptics Just Scored a Big Win
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices found out they were fired via an article in the Wall Street Journal.
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What Next: TBD | Summer Travel Tips To Not Get ...
A guide for digital safety.
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Slate Money | Peak AI Frenzy
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Amicus | Tanks On DC’s Streets And A US Senator...
Yup, seems pretty bad.
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What Next: TBD | New DOGE, New Tricks
Elon may be gone, but Big Balls is staying on.
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Political Gabfest | Very Heavy Force
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