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What Next: TBD | The Death of an Online Whisper...
Your safety? There isn’t an app for that.
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Political Gabfest: Gaza is Starving
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What Next | How Elon Musk Colonized NASA
They used to go to the moon. Now they rely on contractors.
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What Next | Why Are So Many Institutions Caving...
Jerome Powell can stay and fight, or take the road of less resistance and quit.
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What Next | Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America
Clinics for trans youth are closing, incorrect passports have been issued, and trans people are having to make emergency health care plans, even in blue states.
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Hang Up | Chaos Inside the NFLPA
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What Next | Why The Shelves Aren't Empty (Yet)
It doesn’t mean the economy’s doing all that great.
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What Next: TBD | Dupes!
Is your skincare/skirt/vacation island as good as the real thing?
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Slate Money | DORKs Are Cool Again
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Amicus | When Unaccountable People Come for You...
These guys are behaving like they’ll never face consequences.
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What Next: TBD | A Colbert Report
How Trump didn’t (and did) get Stephen Colbert cancelled.
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Political Gabfest | Is John Roberts to Blame fo...
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What Next | He Says Gaza Is a Genocide
Why an Israeli-American Holocaust scholar felt he had to speak up.
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What Next | How Dead Is the Department of Educa...
The federal agency can’t be abolished with the stroke of a pen. But it can be put on the austerity path to oblivion.
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ICYMI | The Astronomer CEO Coldplay Cheating Sc...
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What Next | On Epstein, Democrats Go Low
It’s time to get in the muck.
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Contemplations on Co...
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What Next | Getting Anti-Vaxxers To Roll Up The...
Those who won’t listen to health officials did listen to their neighbors and classmates.
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What Next: TBD | When Bots Go Nazi
Grok’s antisemitic posting spree was a glimpse of an unregulated AI future.
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Slate Money | Which Coke's For You?
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Amicus | How To Build A Police State (With Th...
The Roberts Court seemed skeptical of Trump’s immigration tactics at first. What changed?
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What Next: TBD | How The Epstein Files Blew Up ...
Live by the conspiracy, die by the conspiracy.
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Political Gabfest | MAGA’s Epstein Obsession
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What Next | Can Trump Bully Russia?
Elon Musk isn’t the only one to fall from Trump’s good graces.