What Ron DeSantis’ Latest Crusade Is Really About
Despite what Gov. Ron DeSantis says, his fight against street art has little to do with public safety.
Despite what Gov. Ron DeSantis says, his fight against street art has little to do with public safety.
Tens of millions of people could find themselves having to pay hundreds of dollars for shots that were previously covered.
The administration is planning to take regulatory action to require companies to include more drug information
Trump supporters who oppose Kennedy’s agenda have forced the health secretary to back off.
The new strategy stops short of surprise regulations and leaves pesticides alone.
The Waves also discusses the Riverside Church controversy and the case of Sarah Milov.
What we say matters, especially depending on whom we say it to.
The Waves also discusses the case against Jeffrey Epstein and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble.
Privately, aides concede voters remain uneasy about prices but argue their policies are beginning to turn things around.
Bill Beach said the president’s suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers are assembled.
The monthly jobs report showed just 73,000 jobs in July, with big reductions to May’s and June’s numbers
Following massive, youth-led anti-corruption demonstrations in Nepal, the country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime minister. This week, protesters set fire to the Parliament and other government buildings, and at least 21 people were killed in a police crackdown. The protests continued even after the government lifted its ban on social media platforms and Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military coup and seeking to “annihilate” democracy in Brazil following his election defeat in 2022. The sentencing marks the first time a former Brazilian head of state is brought to trial and convicted for attempting to overthrow the government.
Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, about Israel’s recent move to expand settlements in the West Bank in an effort to erase the possibility of a Palestinian state. “They are doing everything in their power to make sure that a two-state solution can never happen,” says Hasan.
Hasan also comments on the deadly U.S. attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela. “There’s no scenario in which you can say it was an imminent threat to the U.S.,” he says.
President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established, Trump has escalated his attacks on the political left, saying, “We just have to beat the hell out of them.” Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, who says that the right is using Kirk’s killing to smear the left.
“There’s a real rewriting of history going on.
In the lead-up to last night’s Emmy Awards, the host, Nate Bargatze, explained that he wanted to keep the evening as tightly-run as possible, so that the ceremony wouldn’t exceed its three-hour timeslot. To enforce order, he intended to rely on a single bit throughout the show: For every second a winner went over their allotted time for giving an acceptance speech, he’d take $1,000 away from a planned $100,000 donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
When Jeff Hiller heard his name announced as this year’s Emmy winner for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series —his first-ever nomination, for his role in HBO’s Somebody Somewhere—he appeared stupefied. For a long moment, his face remained unchanged, failing to register the shock.
The panel will discuss the Covid-19, hepatitis B and the measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccines, as well as the RSV shot.
Photographs by Sinna Nasseri
On a recent Friday morning, I found myself in a sea of bodies waiting to be admitted to Universal’s new $7 billion Orlando theme park, Epic Universe. Speakers hidden in the foliage blared a soaring melody suggestive of a heroic quest involving swords. The adults in the crowd, most of whom were unaccompanied by minors, wore performance athletic-gear. We filed through a metal detector and presented our tickets. Then all around me, people began to run.
For Joe Minter, the African Village in America, and 1504
And when those white-sailed ships
piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell,
the word rode with us, our tongues
anointed with the power of God.
When the lash found our language,
when they said don’t read or write,
our tongues were still gilded with a heavenly word.
We still sang that holy song,
even in this strange land. Even here, God spoke
to us and through us.
For parents, especially of young children, the question “What’s for dinner?” has high stakes. The answer can determine whether you’ll get to bed early or spend the night struggling to feed a shrieking toddler. It can stoke anxiety about budgeting and dread for the next appointment with the pediatrician.
Parents are worried not just about getting food on the table, but whether that food is good for their kids. That’s partly why Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Layoffs are spreading and unemployment is rising—and one kind of worker is being hit the hardest.
It’s called modular construction, and it could allow apartments to be constructed within a week.
A trillion dollars will come in handy if you want to colonize Mars.
Despite what Gov. Ron DeSantis says, his fight against street art has little to do with public safety.
Tens of millions of people could find themselves having to pay hundreds of dollars for shots that were previously covered.
The administration is planning to take regulatory action to require companies to include more drug information
Trump supporters who oppose Kennedy’s agenda have forced the health secretary to back off.