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The World’s Most Hated Ticket Company Is Finally Being Forced to Change
Live Nation’s settlement with the Justice Department is a big step toward accountability—and cheaper ticket prices.
The Tiny Bite Heard Round the Internet
The McDonald’s CEO took the tiniest bite of their biggest burger—and the internet went wild.
Money Talks: This Season on ‘Industry’
Hillary Frey and Anna Szymanski join Emily Peck to unpack the wild ride that was ‘Industry’ season 4.
The Trump health care policy red and blue states are embracing
More states are giving tax breaks to businesses that help employees sign up for Obamacare using an authority Trump created.
Birth control clinics rush to reapply for funding after receiving new Trump admin guidance
Current grants run out on April 1.
RFK Jr.’s department is revealing its thoughts about women’s health
A conference in Washington this week showcases mainstream and alternative health practices, a teen beauty queen and scientists.
‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff
Clinics are pleading with Congress and HHS for answers amid “radio silence” about the imminent expiration of Title X funding.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It
President Donald Trump has taken one risk after another that could have destabilized the American economy. Iran is the latest crisis to test U.S. economic resilience.
‘I’ve won affordability’: Trump previews SOTU in Georgia rally
The president stopped in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old district to defend his economic record.
Trump in Iowa tries to shift the conversation back to the economy
A brief swing through the farm state underscored administration fears about the midterms.
Americans give Trump low marks on handling of economy as midterms likely to center on affordability
Sixty-one percent of voters told a CNN poll released Friday that they disapprove of the way Trump is handling the economy.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli “War of Choice,” Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII
The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the price of oil soaring to its highest level in years. The United Nations Security Council responded to the unprovoked U.S.-Israeli war by passing a resolution this week condemning Iran — specifically for its attacks on U.S.
Money Talks: Do You Know What You Just Signed?
Mitu Gulati explains how the pervasive use of boilerplate is creating a legal crisis.
J. D. Vance Learns What Mike Pence Already Knows
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Mike Pence should have been a warning to J. D. Vance about the inevitable abasement in store once you join a ticket with Donald Trump.
Federal judge puts RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule, advisers on ice
As a result of the ruling, HHS has postponed a planned meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices this week.
Trump Is Learning That His Bullying Has Consequences
Two months ago, when President Trump was threatening to annex Greenland, I spoke with Danish and other European officials who warned of lasting damage to the system of alliances that the United States created after the Second World War, above all NATO.
At the time, this seemed like a theoretical proposition.
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: The Oscars
If you, like me, had an early bedtime last night, you might require The Atlantic’s help in answering today’s Oscars trivia. By all means, read up.
And by the way, did you know that this weekend’s tie between the two winners for Best Live-Action Short is the seventh in Oscars history? The most famous is Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand’s draw for Best Actress in 1969—but the most interesting is the first, which wasn’t really a tie at all.
A Failed Test of Leadership
It’s a lot to ask of President Trump for him to show a little humility. But that’s exactly what the moment requires.
War is always tragic. When innocent civilians die, that tragedy is multiplied. Even disciplined militaries can’t eliminate the fog of war, faulty intelligence, or human error. Terrible mistakes happen. They have in every war the United States has fought.
The recent bombing of a school in Iran appears to have been carried out by U.S. forces.
Iran’s War Is Not Only With the West
When Israel assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, one of the many people who celebrated the death of the supreme leader was a Syrian surgeon not far from Damascus. He had lived through four years of siege and bombardment by pro-Iranian militias.
“Mr Nobody Against Putin” Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts State Propaganda
Mr Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. Democracy Now! recently spoke with co-director David Borenstein and the subject of the film, the Russian teacher Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, who personally documented Russia’s use of wartime propaganda. “I need for as many people as possible to see what is happening inside of Russian schools,” says Talankin. “Putin is forcing propaganda into their schools, and [the children are] absorbing all of this.
Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank
Democracy Now! speaks with Iranian Israeli political activist Orly Noy about her recent piece, “Longing for My Tehran.” “It’s been a very emotional time since the beginning of the war, not just because we are constantly running in and out of shelters,” says Noy, “but because this time, the footage of the bombing that I grew accustomed to seeing for over two years from the genocide in Gaza was now coming from my homeland.
“A Sense of Despair”: Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After
As the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran extends into a third week, President Trump is demanding other countries send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely shut, as oil prices keep rising. This comes as the U.S. and Israel continue to launch major strikes on Iran, while Iran has retaliated by repeatedly striking Israel and U.S. allies in the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain.
The World’s Most Hated Ticket Company Is Finally Being Forced to Change
Live Nation’s settlement with the Justice Department is a big step toward accountability—and cheaper ticket prices.