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Slashed Subsidies and the Single-Payer Solution
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (288+ words) Consider the subsidies themselves. First passed by Democrats in 2021, enhanced tax credits formed a core pillar of President Joe Biden's project to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and were developed in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when support for the…...
Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (379+ words) The plan was presented to DOT staff last month'at a demonstration of AI's'potential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings," agency attorney Daniel Cohen'wrote to colleagues.'The demonstration, Cohen wrote, would showcase exciting new AI tools available to DOT rule…...
What Does the World Cup Have To Do with Missile Defense?
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (985+ words) This summer's World Cup in the United States could very well be the biggest proving ground for Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" and a showcase for a host of sophisticated new surveillance technologies, including'facial recognition" a boon for defense contractors who…...
Just Say 'No"
3+ day, 32+ min ago (394+ words) They will not stop until they have ethnically cleansed the United States. So why not you? Or, to come at it from a different direction: Why wouldn't you assume you were disposable already? They have already told all levels of…...
‘We Need to Work This Out’
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (563+ words) The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens" Substack newsletter,The 100 Days. Transcripts of 17-year-old meetings and phone calls between presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin have just beendeclassified. Listen in as these two men, nodding thoughtfully, agree they share…...
Thinking About the Carney Doctrine
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (241+ words) The following story is co-published with'Luke Savage's Substack. In what was certainly the most striking (and, in my own circles, the most talked about) part of the speech, he also saw fit to include a critique of what the now-defunct…...
From Groveling to Silence: Jeff Bezos and the FBI Raid on Hannah Natanson
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1292+ words) Hannah Natanson first came on my radar on Christmas Eve. The Trump administration may also have taken note of The'Washington Post'reporter that day, if it hadn't already. In a moving personal account, Natanson recounted what it's been like to cover…...
Aid by Permission: Israel’s NGO Ban Is Reshaping Life and Survival in Gaza
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (731+ words) Israeli authorities framed the decision as an administrative measure, claiming that the organizations failed to meet new'security and transparency requirements'that demand detailed information about staff, funding, and operations. Aid organizations say it undermines their humanitarian neutrality and places local Palestinian…...
Mamdani’s NYPD Problem
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (236+ words) Less than three weeks after Zohran Mamdani's rousing inauguration speech, his supporters are expressing concern over his administration's first major compromise: the reappointment of Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, an architect of the New York Police Department's repressive surveillance-policing apparatus who…...
Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (539+ words) The past year has completely discredited any'claim'that choosing between the Democratic and Republican parties would be merely a matter of "pick your poison" with the same end result. In countless terrible ways, the last 12 months have shown that Donald Trump's…...