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Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse

Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse Echoes of East Palestine in the Key Bridge Collapse

How unregulated capitalism continues stoking disasters and menacing our communal well-being

Mar 28, 2024 / Maximillian Alvarez

Maria Bartiromo talks to Senator Rick Scott on Fox Business on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

Conservatives Wasted No Time Getting Wildly Racist About the Baltimore Bridge Collapse Conservatives Wasted No Time Getting Wildly Racist About the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

Even as the search continued for survivors, the right-wing ecosystem was using the tragedy to smear immigrants and Black people.

Mar 28, 2024 / Rebekah Entralgo

Trump’s Latest Line of Work: Bible Salesman

Trump’s Latest Line of Work: Bible Salesman Trump’s Latest Line of Work: Bible Salesman

In a quick cash-grab to foot the bill for his legal troubles, the former president has teamed up with country singer Lee Greenwood to peddle branded scripture.

Mar 28, 2024 / Chris Lehmann

TikTok supporters

Loath as I Am to Agree With Marjorie Taylor Greene… Loath as I Am to Agree With Marjorie Taylor Greene…

How the effort to bank TikTok is a fascinating case study in transpartisan politics.

Mar 28, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A man fights a losing battle with insomnia by counting sheep, 1940.

A Dispatch From the Land of the “Sleepless” A Dispatch From the Land of the “Sleepless”

A French writer’s memoir of her insomnia tries to understand how central sleep is to cultural and intellectual history.

Mar 28, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

Then-RNC chair Ronna McDaniel under a large poster of a GOP elephant.

Ronna’s Out. But the Folks Who Hired Her Remain at NBC News. Ronna’s Out. But the Folks Who Hired Her Remain at NBC News.

How did they think this hire was smart? The network’s accounting for this mess is unfinished.

Mar 27, 2024 / Joan Walsh

How Much of Our Humanity Are We Willing to Outsource to AI?

How Much of Our Humanity Are We Willing to Outsource to AI? How Much of Our Humanity Are We Willing to Outsource to AI?

Tech companies claim artificial general intelligence systems will propel our society forward. But the cost to our humanity may not be worth the risk.

Mar 27, 2024 / Sage Cammers-Goodwin and Rosalie Waelen

Helsinki Summit: Handshake between Putin and Trump

A Second Trump Term Will Bring the US Closer to Autocracy A Second Trump Term Will Bring the US Closer to Autocracy

Oppression feels closer than ever in America today.

Mar 27, 2024 / Andrea Mazzarino

Bearing Arms

Bearing Arms Bearing Arms

Firearms have been the leading cause of death for US children and teens since 2020, representing 19% of all deaths for children 18 years and younger in 2021.

Mar 27, 2024 / OppArt / Michèle Colburn

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to Fridley, Minn., as part of his administration’s “Investing in America” tour on April 3, 2023.

Bidenomics and Its Discontents Bidenomics and Its Discontents

The White House believes American workers have seldom had it so good. And lots of prestigious economists agree. But the voters aren’t buying. Maybe they know something?

Mar 27, 2024 / James K. Galbraith

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