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The World’s Most Hated Ticket Company Is Finally Being Forced to Change
Live Nation’s settlement with the Justice Department is a big step toward accountability—and cheaper ticket prices.
The Tiny Bite Heard Round the Internet
The McDonald’s CEO took the tiniest bite of their biggest burger—and the internet went wild.
Federal judge puts RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule, advisers on ice
As a result of the ruling, HHS has postponed a planned meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices this week.
The Trump health care policy red and blue states are embracing
More states are giving tax breaks to businesses that help employees sign up for Obamacare using an authority Trump created.
Birth control clinics rush to reapply for funding after receiving new Trump admin guidance
Current grants run out on April 1.
RFK Jr.’s department is revealing its thoughts about women’s health
A conference in Washington this week showcases mainstream and alternative health practices, a teen beauty queen and scientists.
‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff
Clinics are pleading with Congress and HHS for answers amid “radio silence” about the imminent expiration of Title X funding.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It
President Donald Trump has taken one risk after another that could have destabilized the American economy. Iran is the latest crisis to test U.S. economic resilience.
‘I’ve won affordability’: Trump previews SOTU in Georgia rally
The president stopped in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old district to defend his economic record.
Trump in Iowa tries to shift the conversation back to the economy
A brief swing through the farm state underscored administration fears about the midterms.
How Much Pain Is Trump Really Willing to Endure?
It was supposed to be easy. In the weeks after President Trump authorized the military raid to snatch Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, he would tell pretty much any audience about how flawlessly the operation had gone. During a late-January phone call with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who was seething after federal immigration agents killed two of his residents, the president dominated the conversation by going into great detail about the Caracas incursion.
The First Big Administration Defection Over Iran
Joe Kent, the U.S. government’s top counterterrorism official and a self-identified “America First” Republican, is not the only Donald Trump ally to disagree with the president’s decision to attack Iran. But today he became the first senior government official to do so publicly, quitting his job and offering an explanation that undercut Trump’s rationale for starting the war.
Who Will Apologize for D.C.’s Tornado Bust?
Tornadoes did not hit the nation’s capital yesterday, and many meteorologists on the internet are extremely sorry. “What a HORRIBLE forecast by meteorologists—especially myself,” Matthew Cappucci, of the weather app MyRadar, posted on X yesterday after the tornado warnings that prompted schools, businesses, and museums to close across the Washington region had fizzled into your average rainy day.
The Dangerous Logic of the Joe Kent Letter
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When Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned today in protest of the Iran war, he blamed everyone except the person who launched it.
Joe Kent’s Secret
Updated at 6:54 p.m. ET on March 17, 2026
In February 2025, Donald Trump nominated Joe Kent, a 2020-election conspiracy theorist with links to the Proud Boys and white supremacists, as head of the National Counterterrorism Center. What could possibly go wrong?
Kent’s beliefs did not complicate his tenure, during which Trump continued smearing minorities and insisting the 2020 presidential election had been stolen. The sticking point, rather, became the war in Iran.
Something Nefarious Is Quietly Taking Over Your Neighborhood Doctor’s Office
It’s quietly reshaping Main Street medicine. Your wallet—and health—might suffer as a result.
Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets “Antifa Cell”
A jury in Texas has convicted eight people in the first federal anti-terror case since the Trump administration declared “antifa” a terror group. Nine defendants alleged to be members of an “antifa terror cell” stood trial on federal and state charges including rioting, using explosives and attempted murder. The charges stemmed from their attendance at an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail on July 4, during which fireworks were set off and a police officer was shot and wounded.
Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to “Take” Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader
Cuba’s electrical grid has collapsed. The island-wide blackout comes amid a harsh U.S. oil blockade and recent comments from President Donald Trump that he wants to “take” Cuba. No oil shipments have reached the country, located just south of Florida, in three months, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by decades of severe U.S. sanctions. “Sanctions are literally killing people right now,” says Cuban journalist Daniel Montero with Belly of the Beast, speaking from Havana.
Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be “Suicide Mission” for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst
We get an analysis of the Trump administration’s Iran war strategy from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann. “From day two of this war, the Trump administration has not known what to do and how to get out of this,” says Mann, who resigned from the U.S. Army’s Defense Intelligence Agency in 2024 over the Biden administration’s policy in Gaza.
Israel Says It Has Assassinated Iran’s Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West
How long will the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran last? Regime change in Iran will not be as “easy and quick” as U.S. warmongers may have initially believed, says Iranian American political analyst Trita Parsi. Israel claims that it has successfully assassinated Iran’s powerful security chief Ali Larijani, who Parsi says could have played a role in future ceasefire negotiations.
The World’s Most Hated Ticket Company Is Finally Being Forced to Change
Live Nation’s settlement with the Justice Department is a big step toward accountability—and cheaper ticket prices.
The Tiny Bite Heard Round the Internet
The McDonald’s CEO took the tiniest bite of their biggest burger—and the internet went wild.
Money Talks: This Season on ‘Industry’
Hillary Frey and Anna Szymanski join Emily Peck to unpack the wild ride that was ‘Industry’ season 4.