How Trump Undermines Trump
Consider the president’s self-defeating assault against Jerome Powell.
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Mike Johnson Has a FISA Fiasco on His Hands
The House Speaker’s surprise five-year extension and bogus warrant provision backfired, but it was enough to get a gaggle of Democrats to break ranks.
The Wild Wild Western Water Wars
As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.
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American Politics Is Already Inundated With AI Deepfakes. It’s Only Getting Worse.
These aren’t your 2024 deepfakes. Bad actors will go for broke using state-of-the-art AI tools to blunt voters’ confidence in elections.
What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage?
Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.
Why Americans Hate Data Centers: Let Us Count the Ways
They fear AI. They fear higher electric bills. More reasons below.
Live Nation Verdict Serves as a Warning
Companies thought they could get away with anything while Donald Trump was in office. But today they have a new problem: state attorneys general, and juries full of ordinary Americans.
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Organized Money: How AIPAC Tries to Dominate the Business of Politics
Are American voters changing their minds about the Israel lobby in American politics?
Organized Money: Up Ship’s Creek: The Crisis at the Strait
The U.S.-Israel-Iran war choke point at the Strait of Hormuz will ripple through the global economy for years.
Organized Money: California Attorney General Rob Bonta Is Not Done With Ticketmaster
The system is not completely broken, and it shows when states pick up the shattered pieces of our federal system.
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Mom, Kids, and Nowhere to Go
Family homelessness is spiking just as the Trump administration rolls back social services.
The Legacy of the Subway Vigilante
Two new books reveal how a 1980s shooting reflected rising right-wing attitudes in a rapidly gentrifying New York.
A Retrospective on Bidenomics
Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.
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Aftermath: How the War Might Cancel Your Flight
In today’s newsletter: Higher aviation travel prices and even mass cancellations are imminent. Also, China is a big winner and loser from the war.
On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich
The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city’s nonresident rich.
Trump: Poor People’s Power Bills Are Too Damn Low (Again)
To help pay for his war of choice with Iran, Trump wants to zero out funding for energy assistance and efficiency programs. But it’s not the first time he’s tried to dismantle them.
GOP Food Stamp Work Requirements Hit Just as Jobs Dry Up
Millions of people will lose food stamps, according to early estimates.
Out of the Chaos, a Green Future?
Today on Aftermath: How the war in Iran may lead to a boost in renewable energy
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How Trump Undermines Trump
Consider the president’s self-defeating assault against Jerome Powell.
Why Americans Hate Data Centers: Let Us Count the Ways
They fear AI. They fear higher electric bills. More reasons below.
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What, Exactly, Is a Fair Wage?
Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.
Vertical Vertigo
Brian Callaci’s book describes the deregulatory strategies franchisors use to protect their profits.
The Legacy of the Subway Vigilante
Two new books reveal how a 1980s shooting reflected rising right-wing attitudes in a rapidly gentrifying New York.
