Prediction markets allow anyone over the age of 18 to bet on fun stuff like what President Donald Trump is going to say in a certain speech. These platforms, particularly Kalshi and … More »
The Insider Trading Is Coming From Inside the White House Teleprompter Read More »
If the new and MAGA-approved CBS is planning a season of CSI: Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the writers are really going to need their imaginations to make the concept pay off. Donald Trump and his administration have More »
The Reflecting Pool Is a Bad Paint Job, Not a Crime Scene Read More »
Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman has long downplayed the Beltway chatter that he’s considering leaving the Democratic Party, even as he cultivates increasingly cozy relationship… More »
Fetterman Reveals What Would Make Him Leave the Democratic Party Read More »
Last spring, my mother and I looked for her childhood home on Zillow. She grew up on the Mid-Coast of Maine in a two-bedroom house without a view of the water. My grandparents could just about afford it on blue-collar wages in 1959. Now Zillow said the same house could sell for almost half a
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Last year, OpenAI announced it would be working with iPhone designer Jony Ive on a range of physical devices. Rumors swirled about various surveillant doodads: a pen, an earbud, a… More »
OpenAI’s First Device Will Want to Know Everything About You Read More »
Congress hasn’t enacted any legislation lately, mostly owing to a Trump-engineered logjam. The president and his MAGA allies are demanding things Democrats oppose and Republicans woul… More »
Mike Johnson Tries to Appease Trump With Third Reconciliation Bill Read More »
If you get your information from mainstream media or progressive political outlets, the recent debate over ICE tactics and mass-deportation policies during the second Trump administration is one-sided. Whipped on by quotas and undermined by haste and poor training, immigration enforcement agencie… More »
MAGA Won’t Stand for Limits on ICE Brutality Read More »
Donald Trump wants to end the biannual clock-switching madness. Republicans, who tend to do whatever he wants, control both chambers of Congress. The GOP needs a win before the midterms, and this is the … More »
Congress Can’t Stop Teasing a Daylight Saving Time Fix Read More »
In the final, petulant hours of his campaign for Senate, Graham Platner chose to conclude the letter formally ending his candidacy with the phrase “Fuck ICE.” This was no mere outburst. As a candidate, Pla… More »
The Democrats Have an ICE Problem Read More »
Ken Griffin, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who’s made it clear that he doesn’t care much for J.D. Vance and would prefer to see the vice-president go back to Ohio come January 2029, has opened up his essentially limitless checkbook in the hopes of keeping Congress in Republican hands this fa… More »
Ken Griffin, GOP Megadonor and Rubio Fan, Goes All in on Midterms Read More »
