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The Comeback Kid

Plus: Migrant drownings, cancer-ward Zionism, and more...

Reason · Jan 16, 2024

AP called Iowa before most people voted

Iowa voters saw alerts that Trump was projected to win before most of them even had a chance to cast ballot

Salon · Jan 16, 2024

Empire AI

Plus: Adult activists, Fani Willis' love life, Catholic crackdown, and more...

Reason · Jan 9, 2024

Biden in spat with ex-Obama adviser who urged him to ‘get out or get going’

President reportedly called David Axelrod a ‘prick’ for criticising his re-election efforts

The Guardian - US · Nov 14, 2023

Abortion's Big Night

Plus: RFK Jr., Wichita's libertarian mayor, Hamas' death toll accuracy, the cult of Erewhon, and more...

Reason · Nov 8, 2023

MAGA revenge: Trump starts a big payback

The fact that people are saying Trump would be a better president than Biden is nothing more than a primal scream

Salon · Nov 6, 2023

Nate Silver's "Free Speech Is in Trouble"

An excellent article about a recent survey of college students, by a man who knows a thing or two about surveys. A couple of short excerpts, though you should read the whole thing: [A]fter seeing the latest polling on what college students think about free speech, I don't concern over…

Reason · Nov 3, 2023

There are more of us than them

The people dying from COVID were voters

Salon · Sep 30, 2023

Fetterman dresses down critics of US Senate dress code reform

Pennsylvania senator known for wearing hoodies and shorts will now be able to do so to vote, angering rightwingers

The Guardian - US · Sep 19, 2023

Who’s Vivek Ramaswamy? He's the Trump 2.0 candidate who’s making waves in the Republican primaries

The New York Times described him as promising “to exert breathtaking power in ways that Donald Trump never did”. An article for Time magazine called him a “rockstar for those who think cancel culture is threatening every corner of American life”.

The Conversation · Aug 31, 2023