Meta’s MAGA Moment
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company plans to end its fact-checking program as part of a broader overhaul of how it moderates content on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. In a v...
8 Jan 202521min
Congress Ain’t Gettin’ Any Younger, Folks
Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s victory Monday, exactly four years after he denied President Joe Biden the same courtesy by inciting a violent mob of insurrectionists to march to the...
7 Jan 202521min
What Trump's Win Means for Jan 6 Rioters
Congress is set to certify President-elect Donald Trump's victory today, on the four-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Since then, almost 1,500 people have been charged with crimes for thei...
6 Jan 202524min
The New Jersey Drones Mass Delusion, Explained
Something mysterious has been going down in New Jersey this week…but it’s NOT drones. It’s that thousands of people are looking at airplanes in the night sky and thinking they see UFOs. What causes ma...
21 Dec 202432min
House Republicans ClusterMusk
House Republicans on Thursday failed to pass their backup plan to fund the government temporarily. The bill’s demise left lawmakers with few options to avert a looming shutdown Friday, after President...
20 Dec 202422min
Abortion in Trump's America
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a case over South Carolina’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood. The state wants to cut off Medicaid funding for all of Planned Parenthood’s healthcare s...
19 Dec 202421min
Media Braces For Trump's Revenge
President-elect Donald Trump made good on his promise late Monday to sue The Des Moines Register, the newspaper's former pollster, Ann Selzer, and the paper's parent company, Gannett. His lawyers argu...
18 Dec 202422min
Will Senators Let A Vaccine Skeptic Run Public Health?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started making the rounds on Capitol Hill Monday to lobby Senators on his nomination to be the next secretary of Health and Human Services. There are plenty of reasons why he cou...
17 Dec 202427min
