Editor’s Note: When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed, vaccine-rejecting, food label-reading Make America Healthy Again voters who’ve been credited with helping Trump take back the White House. But there are signs that the MAHA–MAGA alliance is wearing thin, from squabbles over…
Violence against women and trans people is worse than previously thought, according to new research released Wednesday from Tulane University and University of California, San Diego. Nearly two-thirds of women have experienced abuse from a spouse or romantic partner, known as intimate partner violence or domestic violence. Sixty-eight percent reported…
A state that spent decades alienating its professional class has lost the capacity to govern.
Natalie Harp’s enormous bag and unflattering photos of Trump's rear end fuel attacks on a reporter
Anxiety over the dangers of artificial "intelligence" says more about human nature than about the machines
On stage at Davos in the Swiss Alps earlier this year, Bill Gates, before an audience of the global do-gooding elite, announced a $50 million partnership between his foundation and an unlikely new ally, OpenAI, aimed at improving healthcare in Rwanda. Just a month earlier, the Gates Foundation had released a harrowing report about widespread…
This article was published with The 74 a nonprofit, nonpartisan news site covering education in America. TULSA, Okla. — With her long wavy hair pulled back in a ponytail, the young mom sat alone outside courtroom 6 at the Tulsa County Family Center for Juvenile Justice, checking her phone and anxiously waiting for a court official to…
The 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House the first time was defined in many ways by the role of America’s longtime adversary Russia. Over the years, multiple investigations have concluded that Russia meddled in the election to boost Trump over Hillary Clinton and create political discord among voters. Trump, meanwhile, has…
Thomas Dans has backed taking over Greenland and advocated reestablishing ties with Russia, where he has business
Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safeIt is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren…
The president’s assistant travelled with him to Ireland – which really shouldn’t be much of a story. But his comms team seems determined to make it onePassport, money, emotional support human: Donald Trump had all the travel essentials on his recent trip to Ireland. The president flew into Dublin on Saturday morning to play golf, meet the country’s leaders…
Not only would the plan do vast economic damage – it assumes that Americans are easily bamboozledWhenever Donald Trump gives a speech, it’s filled with so many lies and self-serving exaggerations that when he does utter something true, I see that as a sort of marvel. That’s what happened nearly an hour into Trump’s marathon speech last Wednesday at the…
Archdiocese knew of allegations against Gerard Joseph ‘Jerry’ Howell for 40 years but continued to support himA New Orleans Catholic priest whose prolific sexual abuse of children in the local deaf community was known for at least four decades by the city’s archdiocese without meaningful consequence has died after evidently falling in his Texas…
Ten seasons ago, Minnesota entered the playoffs with a chip on their shoulders and won a championship. Can they channel the same energy this year?Williams Arena (now known as The Barn) in Minneapolis was packed to capacity on 4 October 2017, when Cheryl Reeve sent Sylvia Fowles into Game 5 of the WNBA finals and watched her take off. Reeve, chasing her…
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fireFirefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say the federal government is failing them at a time when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous.While the US continues to grapple with…
The President complained that some Justices have not ruled as he expected.
Algorithmic efficiency is not a substitute for human empathy and judgment, writes Francine Berman.
“As the federal government fails to address skyrocketing costs, the case for a mayor-president has never been stronger,” writes Alexander Heffner.
