A Hollywood CEO Tried to Kill This Movie. Now It’s His Latest Humiliation.
His plan to bury the film blew up in his face like a stick of dynamite.
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Money Talks: In the Market for a T. rex Skull?
A look at the growing industry of buying and selling dinosaur fossils.
Adults Everywhere Are Suddenly Trying to Get Their Hands on a 30-Year-Old Children’s Game
It’s inspired robberies, counterfeits, and multimillion-dollar sales.
Trump Even Managed to Piss Off Canada
The U.S.-Canada trade talks fell spectacularly apart after Donald Trump made wild demands of our neighbors to the north.
The Big AI Questions Episode
We ask an A.I. consultant all our burning questions, like “Is China winning the A.I.
White House strikes new drug-pricing deals
The Trump administration is touting deals with nine drugmakers ahead of the midterm elections.
RFK Jr.’s Health Department leads Trump’s push to add politicals to the federal workforce
Political roles are way up. Career staffing is way down, despite a push to hire after last year’s downsizing.
Shapiro won’t say who died of measles. RFK Jr. is exploiting it.
The Health secretary suggested the Pennsylvania governor is hiding something about the deaths’ cause. Shapiro says he can’t say more.
2 unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
The U.S. has reported more than 2,700 measles cases this year, the highest annual count since 1991.
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.
Will Kevin Warsh Squander a Huge Opportunity?
The new Fed chair will have the spotlight at the central bank’s high-profile conference in Jackson Hole. He should use it.
Vance asks Mainers to vote Republican — as Trump ups the trade war with Canada
Vice President JD Vance’s visit marked his second to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in four months.
Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight
Juan Carlos Dávila reports from Puerto Rico as the island grapples with a severe water crisis. A record-breaking drought has led to severe shortages and a system of water rationing that residents say could have been prevented by better infrastructure maintenance.
An Inflection Point for Prediction Markets
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The day before Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address, the former Representative George Santos shared a video of himself saying, in no uncertain terms, that he was “going to be there.” The next day, he didn’t show up.
The Met’s Other Failure
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s announcement this week that it is canceling next year’s exhibition on the fashion of John Galliano perhaps shouldn’t have come as a surprise. From the start, Galliano was a controversial pick for the museum’s Costume Institute, which launches its new show each year with the splashy Met Gala.
The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored
For nearly a year and a half, the Trump administration prepared its case. Political appointees inside the State Department combed through old files and databases. Civil servants received notice that their personal emails would be examined.
How Trump Lost Asia
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In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a discussion of how Donald Trump has enriched himself and his family during his presidencies. David discusses how these ill-gotten gains bring up difficult questions about the future of American democracy.
The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards
Gail Bisson / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards
Common Merganser. Winner, Female Bird, U.S. and Canada. East Bay Sandbar, Nova Scotia, Canada.Timothy Dhalleine / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards
Crested Caracara. Winner, Birds in Landscapes, Chile and Colombia. Torres del Paine National Park, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic region, Chile.Camilo Sanabria Grajales / 2026 Audubon Photography Awards
Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird. Honorable Mention, Youth, Chile and Colombia.
“Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy”: U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India’s RSS & Hindu Supremacy
Demonstrators gathered outside Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday to protest against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a far-right Indian paramilitary Hindu nationalist organization with close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The leader of the RSS, Mohan Bhagwat, was holding a rally inside the arena to launch a global speaking tour marking the 100th anniversary of the RSS.
“Went to Sea and Never Came Back”: Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes
A year ago today, the United States bombed a small boat in the Caribbean, killing nine people on board. Two survivors clung to the wreckage for 45 minutes, reportedly waving for help, before a second “double-tap” strike killed them, too. President Trump posted a video of the first attack on social media, announcing that 11 terrorists had been killed in a military operation that would be called “Operation Southern Spear.
U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More
We speak to Richard Wolff, a prominent Marxist economist, about the economic fallout from the war on Iran, which recently reached the six-month mark. “Because it’s only been going on for a few months, the impact on the prices we pay is about to unload itself,” says Wolff.
The U.S. national debt, which recently topped $40 trillion, is “one of the many signs of an economy and of an empire that is now in decline,” says Wolff.
Hospitals say coming Trump administration rules are worse than GOP’s Medicaid cuts
Hospitals have launched a lobbying blitz to stave off Trump administration rules they say will lose them hundreds of billions of dollars.
Adults Everywhere Are Suddenly Trying to Get Their Hands on a 30-Year-Old Children’s Game
It’s inspired robberies, counterfeits, and multimillion-dollar sales.
Trump Even Managed to Piss Off Canada
The U.S.-Canada trade talks fell spectacularly apart after Donald Trump made wild demands of our neighbors to the north.
The Big AI Questions Episode
We ask an A.I. consultant all our burning questions, like “Is China winning the A.I.
White House strikes new drug-pricing deals
The Trump administration is touting deals with nine drugmakers ahead of the midterm elections.