How drugmakers captured the FDA, what Zohran Mamdani’s win means for democracy, and more from The Lever this week.
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The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
The post Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption appeared first on The Intercept.
An essay by the legal scholar Aziz Huq, who teaches at the University of Chicago — the very university where Fraenkel completed his book — recently appeared in the magazine The Atlantic … That is the insidious aspect of the construction of the dual state: it organises the suppression of dissent, yet leaves the great […]
I am currently on the Amtrak Cascades line between Seattle and Vancouver, returning from the awesome SeaGL 2025 conference at the University of Washington. I decided to cancel the US leg of my flight home because of the airport chaos caused by cancelling 10% of domestic flights. But it got me thinking that reducing air … Continue reading US DOT Aviation Climate Plan
Trump ended deportation protections for South Sudanese immigrants, prioritized asylum for white South Africans, and threatened to invade Nigeria. It’s all part of the Christian nationalist playbook.
The post How Christian Nationalism Is Shaping Trump’s Foreign Policy Toward Africa appeared first on The Intercept.
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An obscure election galvanizes national power battles, a worker takes on corporate exploitation, consumers’ favorite energy program survives Trump, and electoral wins reverberate nationwide.
A look at why every Doctor Who companion is metaphorically Carole Ann Ford's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, and how that's impacted the show.
Newly discovered vessels may be key to flushing waste away from our brains
The post The Brain’s Hidden Drain appeared first on Nautilus.
Killer whales divulge more of their private lives with never-before-seen images of a wild birth and gruesome hunts
The post Orcas Giveth and Orcas Taketh Away appeared first on Nautilus.
The stock market bubble inflated by AI hype since late 2022 might finally be popping. If this week’s reversals turn into a sustained downtown, analysts might look back at the actions of tech executives and Trump adminstration figures this week as the straw that finally broke the camel’s back. The warnings have been coming for […]
These extraterrestrial treks make Mount Everest look like an anthill
The post Visit Our Solar System’s Tallest Mountains appeared first on Nautilus.
The U.S. claims it is engaged in “armed conflict” with Tren de Aragua, Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and Cártel de los Soles, among others.
The post Trump Has a Secret List of 24 “Designated Terrorist Organizations.” We Got Some of the Names. appeared first on The Intercept.
Whether or not Congress extends the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits, health care giants are poised to extract new profits from patient pain.
But can this make a dent in Earth’s plastic crisis?
The post Some Bacteria Have Evolved the Ability to Degrade Plastic appeared first on Nautilus.
Scientists might have finally uncovered the origins of bold streaks on the Red Planet’s surface
The post A Martian Mystery May Finally Be Solved appeared first on Nautilus.
Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has painted a compelling picture of this as a possible future problem that can be pre-solved with EdTech. Therefore, we’re pleased to introduce some cutting-edge yet profoundly user-unfriendly technology.
You’ve already been given an app for reluctantly volunteering to run the book fair, an app for viewing your kid’s hastily prepared report cards, and an app for lodging complaints about our apps. Effective immediately, we’ll also be tracking your child’s whereabouts on three additional apps.
First, if your child is going to be absent, log into your PITA, which does not stand for “Pain in the Ass” but for “Parents Informing Technology of Absences.” If you forget your login, call our wonderful school secretary, Marjorie. No, you can’t just call the office to tell Marjorie your kid is sick; you’ll need to call the office to retrieve your PITA login information, then log in to PITA to tell PITA your kid is sick.
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
The post The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve appeared first on The Intercept.
The relationship between white Christian nationalists and right-wing Jewish groups is often so stormy it...
As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional resistance to U.S. aggression as Trump’s new Cold War threatens to ignite the Caribbean.
The post Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America appeared first on MintPress News.
Behind the headlines of “civil war” and “tribal clashes,” Sudan’s collapse reveals a U.S.-engineered campaign of starvation, displacement, and proxy war led by Israel and the UAE to crush resistance and control Africa’s resources.
The post How The CIA & Mossad Set Up Sudan for Genocide since the 1990s appeared first on MintPress News.