Virginia’s Gerrymandering Vandalism
The Virginia gerrymander would create an extreme deep-blue House caucus in a purple state based upon winning one election cycle. Source link
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High Fashion Wasn’t Easy in Imperial Spain
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Will the AI Revolution Foment a Revolution?
It’s quite possible that the apocalyptic economic warnings are overblown. But what do free marketeers do if the doomers are right? Source link
Instagram boss defends app from witness stand in trial over alleged harms to kids
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge threatened to throw grieving mothers out of court Wednesday if they couldn’t stop crying during testimony from Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, who…
The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns
When the director Bart Layton—whose new film, “Crime 101,” opens on Friday—recently reflected on his favorite novels, he realized that many were what might be termed anti-Westerns. “Most…
Meta, TikTok and others agree to teen safety ratings
Meta, TikTok and Snap will be rated on their teen safety efforts amid rising concern about whether the world’s largest social media platforms are doing enough to protect the mental health…
Super Bowl spots spark fight over whether we're ready for ads from our chatbots
The chatbot wars entered the Super Bowl this year. At Super Bowl LX, a ChatGPT competitor paid millions of dollars for commercials mocking the leading artificial intelligence chatbot’s…
“The President’s Cake” Is a Neorealist Treasure from Iraq
In the city, the story splits in half: Lamia gets separated from Bibi (for reasons I wouldn’t dare disclose) and searches for the one person she knows there, a classmate’s father, who…
'Ass power!' Hundreds gather in L.A. to play a video game about donkeys and the resistance
The donkeys are pissed off. Put upon, out of work and victims of decades-long systemic abuse, it’s time, they have decided, to protest. The donkeys, metaphorically, are us. At least that’s…
The Movie That Inspired Gregory Bovino to Join Border Patrol
For all the scenes of jeeps raising dust in the desert and migrants wading through the Rio Grande, “The Border” is something of a two-hander. Charlie’s prevailing disgust with his…
Trial starts in L.A. lawsuit alleging Instagram and YouTube knew apps harmed kids
A landmark civil trial that will ask jurors to decide whether social media companies can be held liable for pushing a product that they allegedly knew was harmful to children began Monday…
The Race to Give Every Child a Toy
Actually, they did want to be. There is a reason Morris Michtom moved his family from the Lower East Side to the row houses of Brooklyn as soon as he could. (When his youngest son was…
“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths
In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing. Source link
Listening to Joe Rogan
Long John Nebel and Art Bell are gone, but the tradition they embodied has a prominent inheritor. In an age of diminishing attention spans, “The Joe Rogan Experience” is free-form, runs…
Barry Blitt’s “Split Screen”
In February, 1925, the first issue of The New Yorker was published, featuring a drawing by the art editor Rea Irvin of a top-hatted dandy examining a butterfly through his monocle. This…
Bad Bunny’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny arrived on the Super Bowl stage wearing a silver trenchcoat and a matching do-rag. He delivered a perfectly incendiary verse in which he declared, “Viva la raza!,” and then he…
AI’s latest 20-something billionaire got his start at L.A. garage sales
The man set to become one of the world’s youngest artificial intelligence billionaires started his entrepreneurial journey as a bored preteen living in Los Angeles. When Ali Ansari was 12,…
Oil prices climb on worries of possible Iran-US conflict
Oil prices settled higher on Friday (Feb 6), reversing earlier losses as traders worried that this week’s talks between the US and Iran had failed to reduce the risk of a military…
Illegal immigrant convicted of voting, stealing disability and food stamp benefits
An illegal immigrant from Colombia was convicted Friday on charges that she voted illegally in the 2024 presidential election and stole some $400,000 in Social Security disability, food…
Americans in line for more beef from Argentina
President Trump is allowing Argentina to send an additional 80,000 tons of beef to U.S. markets in an attempt to reduce sky-high consumer prices. Source link
Virginia’s Clownish Redistricting Scheme
None of this is worthy of a state with one of the finest political traditions in America. Source link
GOP Rep. Mark Amodei to retire from Congress
Nevada's sole Republican in Congress, Rep. Mark Amodei, will be retiring after eight terms. Source link
I Was Jailed for 18 Months Under the FACE Act. It’s Time to Repeal This Unconstitutional Law
The FACE Act is being used against Don Lemon but could be weaponized against pro-life activists like me again. Source link