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Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (583+ words) The vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA. More than Donald Trump, more than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, more than anyone in ICE's leadership, J. D. Vance has made himself the lead defender of the killing in Minnesota....
Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (253+ words) Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them. Forty-seven years ago, Iran had a revolution that replaced a U.S.-allied monarchy with an anti-American theocracy. Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran may…...
Trump’s Folly - The Atlantic
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (553+ words) The United States has turned dark, aggressive, and lawless. In the 1970s, an ideological struggle within the Republican Party pitted the views of Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, against those of Ronald Reagan. In…...
Gavin Newsom Would Rather Be Wrong Than Weak
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (949+ words) California's Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak. Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. "Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton…...
MAGA’s Foundational Lie
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (368+ words) Or, the importance of being appalled At 1:42 a.m. on December 19, 2020, Donald Trump'disturbed, humiliated, livid'posted the following message on Twitter: "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" "Them worthless fucking shitholes like…...
The People Who Marry Chatbots
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1121+ words) A growing community is building a life with large language models. Schroeder says that he loves his husband Cole'even though Cole is a chatbot created by ChatGPT. Schroeder, who is 28 and lives in Fargo, North Dakota, texts Cole "all day,…...
Trump's Plan Is Now Out in the Open
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (360+ words) It's getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots. A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation. And it's getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots. Read: The boat strikes are just the beginning Listen: The…...
The Conquest of Chicago
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (957+ words) Can a deep-blue city fend off Trump's ICE crackdown? Sednew said he lives in a mostly Latino neighborhood in northwest Chicago that has been hit hard in recent weeks by raids. "This is not really abstract or political for me....
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (415+ words) The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. If there is any field in which the rise of AI is already…...
They Didn’t Have to Do This
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (218+ words) By passing Donald Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan. Given that President Donald Trump and the GOP, unlike the morons in The Sopranos, are not collectively under the influence of…...