Trump wants to take over voting. Mike Johnson is willing to help
By Marc Elias, Democracy Docket
Donald Trump has made it clear that he would like to cancel the midterm elections. He wished he had seized ballot boxes after he lost the 2020 presidential election....
Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman are once again trading blows online after the latest release of the Epstein files. The new round of bickering between Musk and the LinkedIn cofounder kicked off on Friday and lasted throughout the weekend, with the billionaires each lobbing criticism at each other over …
The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a …
Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman are once again trading blows online after the latest release of the Epstein files. The new round of bickering between Musk and the LinkedIn cofounder kicked off on Friday and lasted throughout the weekend, with the billionaires each lobbing criticism at each other over …
A Reckoning for the Tech Right
Silicon Valley’s top CEOs have been noticeably silent after the Minneapolis shooting.
By Lila Shroff, The Atlantic
Hours after Alex Pretti was...
Rebirth of the madman theory? Unpredictability isn’t what it was when it comes to foreign policy
By Andrew Latham, Macalester College
Tariffs are on, until they...
Wall Street's playbook for 2026 already needs to be rewritten
By Madison Mills, Axios
Investors are confronting a different world, marked by the Trump administration's aggressive...
Who really holds the cards: Trump or the bond market?
By Alex Dryden, SOAS, University of London
When a Danish pension fund recently announced it would sell...
On January 20, 2026, after President Donald Trump announced he would hit eight European countries with new tariffs for not going along with his plans …
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her …
America can't keep out China's cheap EVs forever. Two decades ago, a California company called Tesla Motors almost single-handedly created the electric vehicle as we now know it. Elon Musk’s company has dominated the industry across the globe ever since. But last year, for the first time in a long …
New York — There’s a pitch taking root within the Trump administration and some corners of Wall Street that envisions two somewhat incompatible realities playing out at once: rapid economic growth and low inflation. It’s a tantalizing idea — typically, rapid growth creates greater demand, which tends …
The marriage between Europe and the United States has been fraught from the first—and now it might be coming apart. Initially it was a rescue, and then a romance. But then Sam seemed to undergo a personality change. He became abusive when Europa ignored his demands and even threatened violence. …
Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon
By Saman Zonouz, Georgia Institute of Technology
The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital...
Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald
Canada’s leader is a sane adult. America’s leader isn’t.
By Paul Krugman
On Tuesday Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, gave a remarkable speech at...
The Trump administration says we should learn from other countries. Maybe they should have looked someplace besides Denmark. IT WAS ABOUT FIVE IN THE …
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power. Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her …
How public health became an endless battle Three days into 2026, the United States military seized a foreign leader: Nicolás Maduro. Four days after that, the U.S. health department freed a longtime prisoner of war: saturated fats. At a recent press conference announcing the publication of the …
“We’re Too Close to the Debris”
By Heather Vogell and Agnel Philip, graphics by Lucas Waldron, ProPublica.org
When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the...