Trump Even Managed to Piss Off Canada
The U.S.-Canada trade talks fell spectacularly apart after Donald Trump made wild demands of our neighbors to the north.
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The Big AI Questions Episode
We ask an A.I. consultant all our burning questions, like “Is China winning the A.I.
The Hottest Restaurant Chain in America Has a Pitch Very Different From Others. People Are Absolutely Obsessed.
People will fly 16 hours to try it—and leave true converts.
Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good
RIP to one of air travel’s most cursed features.
RFK Jr.’s Health Department leads Trump’s push to add politicals to the federal workforce
Political roles are way up. Career staffing is way down, despite a push to hire after last year’s downsizing.
Shapiro won’t say who died of measles. RFK Jr. is exploiting it.
The Health secretary suggested the Pennsylvania governor is hiding something about the deaths’ cause. Shapiro says he can’t say more.
2 unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
The U.S. has reported more than 2,700 measles cases this year, the highest annual count since 1991.
‘The MMR vaccine is not a lethal vaccine,’ Mehmet Oz says
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was asked three times to clarify claims made by President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Trump offered state Medicaid programs lower prices on weight-loss drugs. Most are rejecting the deal.
Blue and red states say accepting federal help to expand access to drugs like Wegovy for America’s poorest patients is too much of a drain on their budgets.
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.
Will Kevin Warsh Squander a Huge Opportunity?
The new Fed chair will have the spotlight at the central bank’s high-profile conference in Jackson Hole. He should use it.
Vance asks Mainers to vote Republican — as Trump ups the trade war with Canada
Vice President JD Vance’s visit marked his second to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in four months.
“The Lion King” in Quechua?: New Film “Runa Simi” Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive
Experts estimate that a language is lost every two weeks — and that half of the world’s 7,000 spoken languages could be lost by the end of the century. Quechua is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the Americas, with approximately 7 to 10 million speakers living primarily in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. But like so many Indigenous languages, Qechua is vulnerable due to cultural pressures and discrimination.
“Who Paid, Who Gained”: Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services
A team of researchers led by Democracy Now!’s Juan González at the University of Illinois Chicago recently released an in-depth study on how, through a program called Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Chicago has spent some $16 billion in property taxes it collected over the past 40 years to fund downtown development. The money was supposed to be used to eliminate urban blight.
“Don’t Be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!” Amy Goodman’s Personal Health Update
Amy Goodman is back to hosting Democracy Now! after taking time off following a medical procedure to remove skin cells on her nose that tested positive for squamous cell cancer. “I think it’s important that … we don’t have to be picture-perfect on TV or video. We are not plastic; we are people. And people get by in all sorts of ways around the world,” says Goodman.
Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”
We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalayan river, triggering catastrophic flooding in the Nepal-Tibet border region that swept away entire communities. Nepali authorities say they have rescued more than 3,700 people so far.
“Shut Down Dilley”: Rep. Joaquin Castro on “Abusive” ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families
Calls to shut down the ICE jail known as the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas continue to grow following the detention and deportation of 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father Victor Martinez Nieto to Mexico. According to the family’s lawyer, Nieto had begged officers to let his son go as they were arrested on their way to soccer practice in Austin last week. Nieto wanted Liam released to his mother, but ICE reportedly refused.
The Measles-Stricken Mother Who Lost Her Newborn Son
When the Amish man emerged from his barn to greet me, he had no idea that his newborn son’s death had become national news. The man wore a straw hat, black trousers, and suspenders over a long-sleeved blue shirt; one of his similarly dressed sons was guiding a horse-drawn plow in a nearby field.
The man told me that, like most Amish people, he and his family don’t watch TV or use the internet. They don’t read the newspaper either.
Red Death
In the green rooms of the Abandonarium
–– Lucie Brock-Broido
Red liquid
Pumped through the arm
Is it poison or is it blood
The red bell head
Cauldron of mourning
The jet of poetry, candied by time
Two gleaming red glass hearts
Beating in the sun
I touch them
Smell the pinked hyacinth
The very nature of things
The goddamn essence of things
Red Hell, Rosa Rubea
Burgundy awakening
The sparkling red elixir I drink
My mind suddenly flooding
With love and anger
The great illusio
What to Read to Wake Up Your Brain
Summer is the ideal season for fun, frothy reads. On languorous weekends or hard-earned vacations, many people skew their literary diet toward lighter fare—fast-paced thrillers, steamy rom-coms—rather than, say, an in-depth history or an experimental novel.
But fall is fast approaching. For some, that means a return to school; for many others, it represents the end of the most leisurely time of the year.
A Society of Cheats
Recently, I have taken to telling friends that whenever I’m on campus, I feel like I’m trapped in the middle of a crime spree. I’m not talking about an epidemic of overdue library books or out-of-control parties. I’m talking about AI and the ways in which students are constantly using it to cheat on any work that is assigned to them.
For those of us in higher ed—and I’ve taught at universities for more than 20 years—such widespread cheating is a baffling predicament.
Why Are So Many People Listening to a Podcast About Living in a Convent?
At a convent in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the bell chimes every day at 5 a.m. Then the 40 or so women who live there year-round—Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist—head to the chapel.
Their day begins with an hour of prayer, followed by Mass. At 7 a.m., they have breakfast together, in complete silence.
The Big AI Questions Episode
We ask an A.I. consultant all our burning questions, like “Is China winning the A.I.
The Hottest Restaurant Chain in America Has a Pitch Very Different From Others. People Are Absolutely Obsessed.
People will fly 16 hours to try it—and leave true converts.
