Aren’t You Just Loving Gas Prices?
Inflation is on the rise, but the Trump administration doesn’t seem concerned.
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A Flesh-Eating Pest Is Driving Up the Price of Beef. That’s Not the Only Reason to Be Worried.
Is the industry screwed?
Old Money: The Long History of the Dollar
Brendan Greeley offers up the surprising origin story of our favorite currency.
Investors Can’t Escape AI’s Clutches
Guest host Mary Childs explains why index funds are bending their rules and giving investors little choice but to opt into the AI boom.
It’s a Popular, Iconic, and Legendary TV Show. Why Is Its Network Trying to Kill It?
The people now running CBS seem really determined to undermine the best thing going.
Trump administration to phase out HIV funding for South Africa
The State Department said the country had failed to address the president’s concerns about treatment of its white citizens.
FTC sues transgender care group, arguing it deceived parents and patients
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has a leading role in determining how gender-affirming care is provided.
RFK Jr. keeps showing up in districts Republicans need to win
The health secretary has visited four House districts with toss-up races in the last six weeks.
RFK Jr.’s olive branch isn’t winning over his staffers
But inside the health department, workers say the dysfunction of the DOGE era persists.
Trump wants you to know this RFK Jr. aide’s name
Chris Klomp is working to boost morale and deliver results at the Health Department after a year of upheaval.
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.
“Shoot the People”: Meet Misan Harriman, Celebrated Photographer & Outspoken Advocate for Palestine
The new documentary Shoot the People profiles the Nigerian British photographer and activist Misan Harriman, the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of British Vogue and an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights. We speak to Harriman in New York City ahead of the film’s U.S.
DOJ Takes Elon Musk’s Side in NAACP Lawsuit Against xAI for Polluting Black Neighborhoods
The Department of Justice has intervened in a legal case involving the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk, asking a Mississippi federal court to toss a lawsuit from the NAACP against Musk’s company xAI, a subsidiary of SpaceX. The NAACP says xAI is violating the Clean Air Act by running dozens of unpermitted gas-burning turbines in majority-Black neighborhoods to fuel its data centers in Memphis, Tennessee.
Science Has a Name for What’s Plaguing the Reflecting Pool
Donald Trump has a new nemesis, with a name worthy of a supervillain: Scenedesmus.
The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall has become the country’s most high-profile science experiment, with workers battling against nature. After a week of combat, they have essentially killed off one type of algae infesting the pool, only to create the conditions for a new type to take over.
Mark Rutte Needs to Stop Talking
Can Mark Rutte please just stop talking? The NATO secretary general, who infantilized an entire continent last year by referring to Donald Trump as “Daddy,” continued his campaign of flattery at the most recent meeting of the G7: “The U.S. action to prevent the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and degrade its ballistic missile capability improves security for us all,” he told reporters.
How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late
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Cory Doctorow has a refrain: “The most important thing about a gadget isn’t what it does; it’s who it does it for and what it does it to.” In this episode of Galaxy Brain, he sits down with Charlie Warzel to talk about the AI boom, making the case that the hype, vision, and dreams of endless growth are unsustainable.
Britain’s Next Leader Has Emerged
Britain has a new prime minister in waiting. Andy Burnham has wanted to lead the Labour Party for more than a decade, and now the deep unpopularity of the incumbent, Keir Starmer, has created a path to Downing Street for the Manchester mayor.
The Thinkers Who Explain This Baffling Era
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My favorite essays feel like surprising chemical reactions: Their materials combine into something novel and combustible. The French philosopher Roland Barthes’s 1957 essay “The World of Wrestling,” which examines the “amplification of the tragic masks” in professional (fake) grappling, certainly fits this category.
“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack.
Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said
As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s.
Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We begin with our 2021 interview with historian Clint Smith, originally aired a day after President Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Aren’t You Just Loving Gas Prices?
Inflation is on the rise, but the Trump administration doesn’t seem concerned.
A Flesh-Eating Pest Is Driving Up the Price of Beef. That’s Not the Only Reason to Be Worried.
Is the industry screwed?
Old Money: The Long History of the Dollar
Brendan Greeley offers up the surprising origin story of our favorite currency.
Investors Can’t Escape AI’s Clutches
Guest host Mary Childs explains why index funds are bending their rules and giving investors little choice but to opt into the AI boom.
It’s a Popular, Iconic, and Legendary TV Show. Why Is Its Network Trying to Kill It?
The people now running CBS seem really determined to undermine the best thing going.