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Lawmakers say they want lower drug prices — but a simple fix has been sitting on the shelf for years, blocked by pharmaceutical lobbying.

The Treasury Department failed to fully protect Americans’ personal data from the prying eyes of Department of Government Efficiency employees, according to a new watchdog report.

If this crucial circulation system shuts down, the civilisational impacts will be irreversible. So why isn’t it a top priority? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd April 2026 The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay politicians. It’s not an original […]

Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches. It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from mounting an effective defense. Since the retrial of six Palestine Action (PA) activists began on April 13, the defendants have been barred under court order from using terms like “genocide” or discussing the target of their direction action protests. Meanwhile, […]

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A new website established by the Israeli government through a contract with Trump’s former campaign manager seeks to manipulate AI platforms into denying established accounts of Hind Rajab’s killing. Israel has created nine English language websites explicitly aimed at manipulating AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT. Its vehicle for maintaining these websites is Clock Tower X, a company founded by Brad Parscale, the former manager of President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Now a federally registered foreign agent, Parscale is […]

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Last month, a data analyst at financial tech giant Intuit showed up to a company Zoom call in full IDF uniform. Intuit’s products include the widely-used tax return program TurboTax. This article was originally published by Do Not Panic! The American tech giant behind the most popular tax filing software in the US allows employees to wear their IDF uniforms to work and also permits them to take months off the job to fight Israel’s wars. Last month, Tom Yacobi, […]

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After decrying the “out of control Swipe Fee ripoff,” the president has blocked states from addressing the problem.

Emails reveal Democratic Rep. Jim Himes privately urged colleagues to back Trump’s expanded spy powers — while he publicly opposed them.

tl;dr: Read “Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media” The lovely folks at the Social Media + Society journal asked me to contribute to their anniversary issue by reflecting on the trajectory of social media. Ooof. Snark exuded from my pores as I tried to figure out what I might say. But then I thought about how my students don’t […]

The clash between populists and party elites is no longer quiet — it’s an all-out fight over money and power.

Today, with the blessing of the Trump administration, Bayer will ask the Supreme Court to block lawsuits connecting its weedkiller to sickness and death.

Billionaire GOP donor Jeffrey Yass scored millions in private-school tax credits while he bankrolled the lawmakers who expanded them.

Sometimes, when a 10Foot graffiti tag slips into view from an unexpected source — on a remote farm gate in the countryside, or in an over-gentrified corner of London Fields — the pleasurable jolt of human connection is not that far from the warm feeling of recognition that great literature can give you. So maybe […]

More than twelve months of strike action has taken a devastating toll on the NHS. I’m not talking about walkouts by doctors or nurses, but about the sustained capital strike by some of the biggest pharmaceutical corporations in the world. Backed by the president of the United States, these companies have spent the past year […]

The late Leo Abse — social reformer, author and Labour MP — once recalled his early days taking the train from his south Wales Pontypool constituency to Parliament. This was in the 1970s, when MPs weren’t paid much and most of Leo’s colleagues were former mineworkers and union officials. ‘The carriage would be quiet,’ said […]

Nigel Farage's Head of Policy endorsed extremist ‘Great Replacement’ theory, called for the reversal of a quarter-century of British migration, and named himself UK chair of a pan-European far-right alliance, in conversation with now deceased ‘MAGA’ activist Charlie Kirk.

As 175 Ukrainian POWs are returned to Chernihiv, desperate families continue to search for their missing loved ones, Kris Parker reports

Sydney’s radio stations are as much as part of the city as any place you can see or visit. Wherever you are, at any time of the day or night, you can tune in and something will be happening. Someone is playing music, speaking to you, or having a conversation that you can listen in […]

A helium crisis, a regulation exterminator, and more from The Lever this week.

“The Gunditjmara actively and deliberately manipulated local water flows and ecologies to engineer a landscape focused on increasing the availability and reliability of eels.”

A satirist moves in on a conspiracist, a utility stumbles in Nevada, security guards could score protection, and a real doctor goes to Washington.