Will Tucker Carlson Become Alex Jones?
The host used his platform to bring hate and conspiracy theories from the fever swamps to cable TV.
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The Trump-Biden Rematch Is Inevitable
The choices will be a traditional American politician or a de facto cult leader—again.
A Refuge From Internet Algorithms Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Unlike TikTok and Instagram, the photos and reviews on Google Maps haven’t been packaged for your taste or mine.
Tucker’s Successor Will Be Worse
The history of Fox News shows that the network and its issues are larger than any one anchor.
It’s Not Gambling If You Know You’re Going to Lose
Lizzie and Kaitlyn head to Queens for a day at the racetrack.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
U.S. inflation eases but stays high, putting Fed in tough spot
The government said prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise.
Biden on economy: ‘It’s understandable why people are just down’
“I can’t think of a time when there’s been greater uncertainty,” the president said.
ACLU Sues To Block Missouri Rule On Transgender Health Care
The ACLU is suing to block new Missouri restrictions on both adults and children seeking gender-affirming health care.
Ukraine Update: The sad state of Russia’s hilariously bad propaganda
If you missed it yesterday, I wrote about Ukraine’s potential directions in its coming big counterattack. While heading south to break the land bridge makes the most strategic sense, it’s also what Russia is most expecting. So I had a dream scenario that looked like this:
I’m still dreaming about this.
Tucker allegedly fired over Jan. 6 lies—2 years too late
The MAGA world was rocked early Monday with the news that its loudest mouthpiece was being silenced. Tucker Carlson and Fox News “parted ways,” the network announced, in what was reportedly not at all a voluntary move on one side. “He was totally surprised,” an insider at Fox told Mediaite. “It was a firing.” But why?
One explanation that is sure to make MAGA devotees even more inflamed over losing their best TV buddy is that Fox Corp.
DA To Decide On Georgia Election Probe Charges In Summer
The prosecutor who is investigating whether Donald Trump illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia says she expects to announce charging decisions in the case this summer and is urging “heightened security.
‘Let Her Speak!’: Trans Montana Lawmaker Stands Firm In Dispute
Montana Republicans want to silence Rep. Zooey Zephyr after she said they would have “blood on their hands” if they banned gender-affirming medical care.
Fox was fine with Tucker’s hate-filled lies. So what changed?
For years now, Tucker Carlson has groomed himself into the perfect far-right propaganda machine. For that, he was rewarded handsomely. Fox News’ audience flocked to his show, eager to soak up his curated paranoias, far-right hoaxes, and talking points lifted brazenly from white nationalist and neo-Nazi communities so Carlson could pump them into the heads of viewers already primed to believe anything any televised lout was willing to shout at them.
Joe Biden Thanks ‘Tennessee Three’ For ‘Standing Up’
“You’re standing up for our kids, you’re standing up for our communities,” Biden told Rep. Justin Pearson, Rep. Justin Jones and Rep. Gloria Johnson during an Oval Office meeting.
McCarthy’s slim majority is about to face a major test
Barely Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a big test this week: marshaling his tiny majority to vote for his radical debt ceiling and budget cuts plan. He set an ambitious deadline for getting it done by the end of this week, which seems unlikely since the House doesn’t get to legislative work until Wednesday.
Reactions pour in now that Tucker Carlson is out
The long and winding racist, anti-immigrant, homophobic, invective-strewn road of Tucker Carlson at Fox news has come to an unceremonious end. It is a perfect finish to the rage-filled tenure of a ginormous windbag who has done so much to harm the public discourse since his show premiered in 2016.
Tucker Carlson and Fox parting ways set the news ablaze, and the reactions came in sizzling and fast.
Lawyers suggest a way around abortion pill restrictions but doctors may be afraid to try it
Doctors can prescribe abortion pills off-label if courts impose restrictions.
Norwegian Refugee Council: Violence, Climate & Poverty Are Fueling Migration from Central America
We continue our conversation with Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who has just returned from Honduras. He calls on the international community to do more to help in Central America, where one in three people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, and gangs, drug trafficking and violence are forcing many to flee north.
Sudan Will Be “Nightmare Beyond Belief” If Conflict Grows, Warns Humanitarian Leader Jan Egeland
As fighting continues in Sudan between the military and the paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces, we speak with Norwegian Refugee Council head Jan Egeland, who says humanitarian work in the country has been paralyzed as a result of the power struggle. “There is hardly any humanitarian work in large parts of Sudan,” says Egeland, who adds that the conflict has already devolved into a war that “will be impossible to stop if it lasts for much longer.
What’s Next in Legal Fight over Mifepristone? Supreme Court Protects Access to Abortion Pill for Now
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday halted a ban and other restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone, keeping the nation’s most popular abortion method available for now as an appeal of the nationwide ban on the pill plays out. The ban was issued earlier this month by the Trump-appointed Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who ruled the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the drug was invalid.
Sudan: Death Toll Tops 420 as Fear Grows That Fighting Between Rival Generals Could Lead to Proxy War
The United States and other countries moved to evacuate diplomats and citizens from Sudan over the weekend amid fighting between rival military factions that’s killed at least 420 people and injured over 3,700 more, in a crisis that began on April 15 when the Sudanese military and the paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces began exchanging fire in the capital Khartoum, further dashing hopes of a return of civilian rule in the country.
Lawmakers line up behind plan to save Medicare
Health economists fear their cost projections are too rosy.
Pill restrictions would upend nascent telehealth abortion industry
A high court decision kept mifepristone available for now, but the legal battle continues.
Abortion pill maker sues FDA to preserve access
The lawsuit from GenBioPro, which makes the generic version of the drug, comes as SCOTUS action looms.
Anti-abortion group launches new pill challenge as SCOTUS mulls sweeping restrictions
Students for Life is leaning on endangered species laws to cut off access to abortion pills.
RJR uses California as test market for skirting upcoming national menthol cigarette ban
The tobacco giant launched “cool” and “crisp” cigarettes that use a synthetic coolant instead of menthol — and sales of the products are zooming in the Golden State.
Harry Potter Was Always Meant to Be Television
A long story with a locked-in ending is ideal for the smaller screen.