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AUGUST 6. 2025

Our 200th News Briefing!

Featuring: The latest on DC restaurant workers’ wages, voting rights shenanigans, sweatshop defenders, the Pyongyang Times, and something that might be a bug. ..

AUGUST 5. 2025

Why Won’t U. S. Politicians Say “Genocide”?

The international human rights community has been clear in its language. Yet even Bernie Sanders refuses to speak of a Gaza genocide.

AUGUST 4. 2025

Jay-Z and the Pitfalls of Black Capitalism

On the underappreciated radicalism of a hip-hop legend, and the danger of believing you can buy your way into a racist society’s elite.

AUGUST 1. 2025

She Exposed the Insurance Industry’s Worst Behavior. Now They’re Coming After Her.

Dr. Elisabeth Potter went viral after accusing UnitedHealthcare of interfering with cancer surgery. She’s still speaking out—despite legal threats.

JULY 31. 2025

Britain is Losing its Free Speech, and America Could be Next

From age and ID restrictions on the Internet, to charging rappers with “terrorism, ” the U. K. is demolishing the most basic civil liberties. If we let them, U. S. leaders may be close behind.

JULY 30. 2025

Living in Omelas

When we face the suffering that our civilization is built on, what are our obligations?

JULY 29. 2025

The “Careless People” Who Make Up Elite Institutions

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ bestseller is a disturbing exposé about the inner workings of Facebook. But Wynn-Williams herself is complicit in the harms she criticizes, and so is her entire class of elite strivers.

JULY 28. 2025

The Gay Doctor Who Fought Nazis

In the early 20th century, Magnus Hirschfeld was Europe’s foremost advocate for LGBTQ rights. Today, as the Right increasingly echoes Nazi ideas about gender and sexuality, we can learn from his example.

JULY 25. 2025

Send the Pope to Gaza

If all his lofty words about morality and care for the innocent are supposed to mean anything, Leo should break the blockade himself.

The Botox Industry is Making Young People Panic About Aging

Too young to drink, old enough for injections: inside the rise of ‘Baby Botox. ’

JULY 24. 2025

Rise of the Idiot Interviewer

Podcast bros are interviewing presidents and power players without doing basic research beforehand. The result is a propagandistic catastrophe.

JULY 22. 2025

AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What’s Left of Society

As they become increasingly isolated, people are treating AI chatbots as friends and even lovers. We have to fix the broken society that made this possible.

The Pen Vs. The Sword

Writers are powerless next to the might of the state. Or are they?

JULY 21. 2025

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Helped Me See Palestine

On “The Message, ” a trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank, and the moral duty to break the silence.