Tim Cook’s Unflashy Success at Apple
The Apple CEO is stepping down and leaving behind a legacy that has surprised everyone.
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The Surprising Reason You’re Paying More for Groceries, Gas, and Housing
Despite reassuring economic data, many Americans say their day-to-day costs are still rising.
So, Are We All Going to Get Refunded for Those Illegal Trump Tariffs?
On average, American families have each spent about $1,744.75 on tariffs.
It Was a Bold, Multimillion-Dollar Experiment. They Wanted to Change Cable News Forever. What They Actually Did Was Far More Revealing.
NewsNation promised “news for all Americans.” Its struggles show why neutrality may be impossible in modern media.
The groups backing RFK Jr. are running low on cash
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy this week blasted the MAHA PAC as a “moral and ethical mess.
‘Anorexic’ reconciliation bill could mean Planned Parenthood gets re-funded
GOP leadership wants a narrow party-line bill, but rank-and-file seek to extend block on funds to family planning clinics.
GOP health care policies have set the swamp on fire
New disclosures show health industry firms and trade groups are spending more than ever to influence Washington.
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.
Canada’s prime minister says economic ties with US are a weakness that must be corrected
“We have to take care of ourselves because we can’t rely on one foreign partner,” Mark Carney said in a video address. “We can’t control the disruption coming from our neighbors.
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.
Death by Firing Squad: Sister Helen Prejean on Trump’s Moves to Ramp Up Executions
The Justice Department is bringing back the use of firing squads and lethal injection using pentobarbital as it seeks to expedite and expand federal death penalty convictions and executions. No federal executions have been carried out since 2020, when the first Trump administration broke with over a decade of precedent and executed 13 people on death row. The second Trump administration is now pursuing the death penalty in dozens more cases across the country.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk Sure Dislike Each Other
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are two of the most influential people in Silicon Valley, if not the world. Between the two of them, Musk and Altman run technology companies worth many trillions of dollars that promise to reshape civilization. But this morning, both sat under fluorescent lights in a courthouse in downtown Oakland, suffering through all manner of technical glitches as their respective attorneys kicked off the long-awaited trial in Musk v. Altman.
The Evolution of Trump’s Corruption
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Seven years ago, during a marginally more innocent time, the Trump administration announced plans to hold the 2020 G7 summit at Donald Trump’s resort in Doral, Florida.
The Ballroom Truthers Have a Theory
Within hours of the gunfire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night—and initial, erroneous reports that the shooter had been killed—the usual swirl of misinformation and rumor was swirling in a particular direction. The event was staged, people said.
More than 300,000 posts containing the word staged were shared on X before midday on Sunday, according to an analysis cited by The New York Times.
A Ballroom Would Have Solved This
I join my voice to those of Donald J. Trump, Lindsey Graham, John Fetterman, and all the others calling for a secure White House ballroom now. Never mind that the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, held in the Washington Hilton, is not hosted by the White House, so if a White House ballroom did exist, it would have altered nothing about Saturday night’s events.
Atlantic Reads: Screen People With Megan Garber
On Wednesday, May 6, staff writer Megan Garber will sit down with The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, to discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency.
RFK Jr. is holding up $600M in vaccines for poor countries
The distributor of the shots said it would cost tens of thousands of lives.
Money Talks: AI Doesn’t Have to Steal Your Job
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu explains why we have to choose a pro-worker AI future.
Colombia Hosts First Global Summit on Transitioning from Fossil Fuels in Attempt to Break U.N. Deadlock
More than 50 countries are gathered this week in Santa Marta, Colombia, in a groundbreaking effort to establish another forum of international cooperation on phasing out fossil fuels and halting the climate crisis. This comes after years of frustration over the United Nations-led COP process, which requires consensus.
Avi Lewis, New Socialist Leader of Canada’s NDP: “Life Just Doesn’t Have to Be So Grindingly Unfair”
As Democracy Now! broadcasts from Toronto, we speak with Avi Lewis, the new head of Canada’s progressive New Democratic Party. Lewis was elected leader in a landslide last month, winning over party members on a democratic socialist platform that vowed to prioritize affordability, address the climate crisis, fight the Trump administration’s attacks on Canada and more.
Trump vs. Dreamers: Justice Dept. Moves to Make It Easier to Deport 500K+ DACA Recipients
The Trump administration is continuing its attacks on DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, that has given deportation relief and work permits to immigrants who came to the United States as children. The Board of Immigration Appeals — an administrative court within the Justice Department — recently ruled that DACA status is not enough to spare someone from deportation, a decision that sets a precedent potentially putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
Tim Cook’s Unflashy Success at Apple
The Apple CEO is stepping down and leaving behind a legacy that has surprised everyone.
The Surprising Reason You’re Paying More for Groceries, Gas, and Housing
Despite reassuring economic data, many Americans say their day-to-day costs are still rising.
So, Are We All Going to Get Refunded for Those Illegal Trump Tariffs?
On average, American families have each spent about $1,744.75 on tariffs.
It Was a Bold, Multimillion-Dollar Experiment. They Wanted to Change Cable News Forever. What They Actually Did Was Far More Revealing.
NewsNation promised “news for all Americans.” Its struggles show why neutrality may be impossible in modern media.