The “Explosive” News Story That We All Couldn’t Stop Talking About.
Cyclosporiasis’ rebranding as “explosive diarrhea” has brought our collective attention to food safety concerns and the MAGA-cultivated Taylor Farms.
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Money Talks: Your Plastic Guilt Is by Design
Beth Gardiner explains how we ended up holding the (plastic) bag for Big Oil’s wastefulness.
A.I. Is Growing. So Is Your Electricity Bill.
The rush to build more data centers is driving up electricity costs.
The Hottest Lunch Trend in America Just Ran Into a Very Unpleasant Problem
From Chipotle to Chopt, the cyclosporiasis outbreak is causing an implosion of sales—and an explosion of problems elsewhere.
Evernote Forever
It looks like Bending Spoons’ bet on nostalgia brands like AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote is playing off after its big IPO this week.
Your health care bill is incomprehensible. Congress is stepping in.
Bipartisan lawmakers are advancing bills that would require hospitals and insurers to disclose their prices.
Activists ‘throwing everything’ they can against abortion turn to wastewater data
Anti-abortion activists are hoping to get the attention of an administration that has embraced theories shunned by mainstream science about Tylenol, peptides and vaccines.
RFK Jr. promised to stop the ‘aggressive suppression’ of these controversial drugs. He’s making progress.
A panel of FDA advisers voted this week to broaden access to peptides.
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.
The American Commentator Making Excuses for Iran
When I saw that the commentator Max Blumenthal was going to speak in Washington, D.C., about his recent trip to Iran, I couldn’t stay away. I have long been fascinated with Americans—especially privileged, well-connected Americans—who, out of alienation from their own country, show an admiration for distant authoritarian lands.
Trump Crashes Into Reality
President Trump has mused about being the most powerful man in history. He has started wars and remade his nation’s economic and strategic relationships with the world. He has demanded, and largely received, total obedience from his party. He has dominated the national discourse like no president has before, and he’s tried to recast his nation’s capital—and even its history—to his liking. He’s everywhere. He has said he believes that there are “no limits” to his power.
Lindsey Graham’s Last Laugh
Lindsey Graham always had a deep appreciation for earpieces, motorcades, and heavily secured environments. He recognized heady Washington status symbols when he saw them—including posthumous ones, such as big memorial services held in big, important rooms containing big, important entourages.
These were Graham’s kind of sanctums. And today was his kind of send-off.
The Trump Administration Tells the Truth
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In a court filing earlier this month, a government lawyer did something radical: He laid out the truth in plain English.
The Horrible Rise of the Makeout Police
Rarely, as a romance reporter, am I confronted with breaking news. When I am, it can come in the form of a TikTok video. And in some cases, it’s a video of two people making out.
This should never have been news in the first place. But on Thursday, a TikToker posted a video of a pair kissing on a bench in New York City’s Central Park. “Get a room,” he tells them as he approaches, clearly filming. “There’s kids around.” By today, the clip had received 3.9 million views.
State Department will dispense $600M for vaccines RFK Jr. held up, Collins says
The health secretary had blocked the funding, accusing the group to which Congress had directed it of using outdated and dangerous vaccines.
Berlin’s Queer Commissioner on Fatal Car Ramming Attack on LGBTQ+ Pride Celebration
A man drove a minivan into a crowd of people near Berlin’s Pride celebrations on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 29 others. Authorities shot and killed the man during an operation on Sunday. The alleged suspect was identified as Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen. According to authorities, Ballout tried to join the Islamic State in 2025 and was released from prison in May after being jailed for preparing an attack.
Meet Beto Coral, Activist Targeted by ICE for Criticism of Trump-Backed Colombian President-Elect
A prominent Colombian activist left the United States after he was arrested by immigration agents and detained for over a month in an ICE jail. Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido, known as Beto Coral, was a frequent online critic of far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, a Trump ally, in the run-up to Colombia’s election.
In a memo obtained by The New York Times in June, U.S.
A New McCarthyism? House GOP Subpoenas BreakThrough News in Escalating War on Progressive Groups
The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News last week, demanding the independent online news outlet hand over internal communications and financial records. BreakThrough News says it’s being targeted over its coverage of U.S. mass deportations, ICE abuses, Cuba and Palestine solidarity and U.S. foreign policy.
“We Can’t Be Intimidated”: CodePink Slams Rubio-Led Campaign Against Cuba Solidarity Groups
As the Trump administration threatens to intensify its “global campaign to crush radical left terrorism,” we look at a new 100-page report issued by the State Department last week accusing the Cuban government of waging a “sustained campaign of subversion against the United States.” The report claims Cuba has backed a number of groups in the United States, including the National Lawyers Guild, Pastors for Peace, the National Network on Cuba and the feminist antiwar organization CodePink.
A cancer diagnosis may not be enough: Trump and Democratic states clash in court over who’s too sick to work
Medicaid eligibility will soon hinge on how the government defines “medical frailty.
The “Explosive” News Story That We All Couldn’t Stop Talking About.
Cyclosporiasis’ rebranding as “explosive diarrhea” has brought our collective attention to food safety concerns and the MAGA-cultivated Taylor Farms.
Money Talks: Your Plastic Guilt Is by Design
Beth Gardiner explains how we ended up holding the (plastic) bag for Big Oil’s wastefulness.
A.I. Is Growing. So Is Your Electricity Bill.
The rush to build more data centers is driving up electricity costs.
The Hottest Lunch Trend in America Just Ran Into a Very Unpleasant Problem
From Chipotle to Chopt, the cyclosporiasis outbreak is causing an implosion of sales—and an explosion of problems elsewhere.
Evernote Forever
It looks like Bending Spoons’ bet on nostalgia brands like AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote is playing off after its big IPO this week.
Your health care bill is incomprehensible. Congress is stepping in.
Bipartisan lawmakers are advancing bills that would require hospitals and insurers to disclose their prices.