Have we reached peak inflation?
Inflation in the U.S. may have reached its peak. A big part of that is falling gas prices, which recently dipped back below the $4 per gallon mark. The price of crude oil is also on the decline, closi...
22 Aug 202211min
Trump's Reset?
We got big developments this week from Trump world and ongoing investigations into the former president and his inner circle. And Liz Cheney was the latest Republican to lose to a Trump-backed challen...
19 Aug 202211min
Big Tech braces for disinformation in the midterms
After the 2020 presidential election, President Trump and his allies waged a disinformation campaign about the election’s legitimacy, focused on polling tech and vote counting. And big tech was not re...
18 Aug 202211min
Over-the-counter hearing aids are coming soon
The FDA announced yesterday that it’s clearing the way for a new category of hearing aids, that people with mild or moderate hearing loss can buy over the counter without an exam, fitting, or prescrip...
17 Aug 202211min
GOP calls to “defund the FBI”
Some Republican lawmakers are embracing a new rallying cry to “defund the FBI,” following last week’s search of Mar-a-Lago. It’s a message that stands in stark contrast to the GOP’s position as the pa...
16 Aug 202210min
Afghanistan’s economic calamity
It’s been one year since the fall of Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul and the start of Taliban rule in the country. Shortly after, the U.S. completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and since t...
15 Aug 202211min
Trump’s legal peril
There are dozens of cases and investigations involving former President Donald Trump — and this week we saw developments in several. From his Mar-a-Lago home being searched by the FBI, to his pleading...
12 Aug 202211min
Making sense of Polio’s return
British health authorities said Wednesday that around 1 million children in London are being offered polio boosters, after the virus was detected in the city’s sewage. The first U.S. case in nearly a ...
11 Aug 202211min
