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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Mamdani’s Public Grocery Store Idea
[ad_1] When studying food insecurity, scholars distinguish between “availability” (what is actually on the shelves) and “access” (what shoppers can afford). Particularly in American cities, it is overwhelmingly access, not...
The Year the Movies Went Big on Isolation
[ad_1] Retreating to sparsely populated and remote settings, these films did not attempt to build dense webs of social relations or to show their characters moving through the world.The plot...
The Peak of Trump’s Fact-Free Vendetta Against Regulation
[ad_1] Lo and behold, that started to happen during the presidency of Barack Obama. Obama’s OIRA administrator, Cass Sunstein, broadened cost-benefit’s scope to include, for instance, the calculation of benefits...
Video: Uber Clears Violent Felons to Drive
[ad_1] new video loaded: Uber Clears Violent Felons to DriveOur reporter, Emily Steel, found that in many states, Uber’s guidelines allow people with serious criminal convictions to drive, as long...
The Nine Worst Trump Scandals of 2025
[ad_1] As longtime readers may recall, I’ve always wondered if Donald Trump truly intended to win the 2016 election. Howard Stern asked him why he wanted to take the world’s...
The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
[ad_1] There was no shortage of bad news to cover in 2025. But I want to end the year by looking to the future and focusing on something more joyous:...
Is This What Got Ghislaine Maxwell Her Cushy Prison Transfer?
[ad_1] Newly released transcripts of Ghislaine Maxwell’s July interview with the Justice Department depict a surprisingly chilly relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, despite varied reports that the glitterati...
Trump Is in Epstein’s Contact Book. So Is His Entire Family.
[ad_1] Surprise, surprise: President Donald Trump was in Jeffrey Epstein’s contact list. Buried in the massive trove of documents released by the Department of Justice Friday was Epstein’s 90-page contact...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of New York Governor Race After Trump Snubs
[ad_1] “ICE held them, day after day, without access to bunks, bedding, soap, showers, toothbrushes or clean clothes,” Brown stated in his ruling. “The space is unheated or poorly heated...
Justice Department Releases Epstein Files—With Broken Search Tool
[ad_1] The Department of Justice finally released its first trove of files on Jeffrey Epstein Friday afternoon—with a broken search tool. The files have been divided into court records, DOJ...
Marco Rubio Stands by Cuts That Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People
[ad_1] Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he’s proud of shuttering the U.S. Agency of International Development—but he really shouldn’t be. During a press conference Friday, Rubio was asked whether...
Sarah McBride Convinced Four Republicans to Defect on Trans Bill
[ad_1] Representative Sarah McBride—the first out transgender member of Congress—had to lobby Republicans to strike down an anti-trans bill because she knew her Democratic colleagues would abandon her. On Wednesday,...