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Iceland Just Got Played
In a high-profile rejection of EU membership talks, everyone won but the Icelandic people.
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Transcript: America’s Big Political Problem Isn’t Polarization
Academics and journalists do the far right favors when they describe American politics as polarized and desperately seek to seem neutral,…
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The Big Greedy Data Center Next Door
Data centers may be the perfect encapsulation of an economy built to benefit the already rich. After construction started on a vast…
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The Tech Bros’ War on Climate Action
Amy Westervelt’s new book exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.”
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Someone Should Maybe Do Something About the AI Apocalypse, Right?
The AI industry say it’s holding a doomsday gun—and warning us it will go off soon.
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Trump’s Supposed Plan for $5,000 Checks Gets Even More Unbelievable
Trump’s treasury secretary now says taxpayer funds won’t be used at all, proposing a far-fetched idea.
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Republicans’ 9/11 Smear About AOC and Mamdani Instantly Collapses
One of Rudy Giuliani’s aides debunked the claim.
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Epstein Survivors Got Kicked Out of the Republican Midterm Convention
As did the journalist who had brought them as her guests.
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Admits It Messed Up From the Very Start
The contractor behind the repairs on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has confirmed what we all knew: Trump’s imaginary vandals…
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What All the AI Spending in This Ohio District Race Is Really About
Super PACs backed by AI giant Anthropic are pouring money into a closely watched race in Ohio. What are they really after?
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Trump Tailspins as His New Plot to Rig Midterms Is Mocked Even on Fox
As Trump’s rants about the elections grow more unhinged, a political scientist explains how a perfect storm of Trumpian idiocy is what…
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Trump Whines About How He Can’t Give Himself Medal of Honor
He said this in front of an audience full of medal of honor recipients.
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Trump’s Fury at Canada Grows So Unhinged that Even GOPers are Rattled
As Trump’s anti-Canada lunacy starts spooking Republicans, the author of a piece on Trump’s trade-warring explains how badly divorced from…
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Trump Makes Bank on Oil as He Declares Iran War Has No End in Sight
Trump’s accounts made interesting trades at key moments during the Iran war.
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This Could Be the Biggest Issue of 2027. Dems Are Split on It.
Democrats need a unified AI plan. Instead, they have a bunch of competing proposals.
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Carbon Capture Won’t Save Us Anytime Soon
A new U.N. climate report says that massive amounts of carbon capture and storage can keep a long-shot climate goal within reach. But…
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Trump, 80, Spotted With New Mystery Bruises on His Arm
President Trump was sporting new bruises during a Labor Day golf trip.
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Trump Tailspins as Leaks about GOP Midterm Panic Take Humiliating Turn
As Republicans reveal fresh angst over the midterms, a veteran political handicapper explains why he’s surprised at how bad a situation…
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How Decades of Privatization Unleashed Trump’s Warmongering
Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.
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This Labor Day: Darkness in Washington, but Sunshine Across America
Countering the Trump administration’s hostility to labor has been a string of historic and sometimes surprising wins in blue cities,…
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They Wanted Me for My Blackness. Then the Calls Stopped.
The year 2020 changed everything—or so we thought.
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How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker
The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome.
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Ex-Trump Labor Secretary Went to Strip Club on Taxpayers’ Dime
Lori Chavez-DeRemer also pressured her staff to drink on the job with her, an inspector general report found.