Is HBO Losing Its Edge?
HBO’s prestige TV luster seems to be taking a hit with the various mergers and rebrands.
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Something Nefarious Is Quietly Taking Over Your Neighborhood Doctor’s Office
It’s quietly reshaping Main Street medicine. Your wallet—and health—might suffer as a result.
Money Talks: Do You Know What You Just Signed?
Mitu Gulati explains how the pervasive use of boilerplate is creating a legal crisis.
RFK Jr. is a ‘big fan’ of this treatment and plans to widen access
He indicated that the FDA will soon take action on peptides, the mini-proteins biohackers tout as therapies for a range of ills.
RFK Jr. went too far with comments about gender care for minors, judge rules
The ruling in a lawsuit brought by a group of states deals another setback to the Trump administration in its efforts to restrict the treatments.
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.
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.
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.
What the Markets Tell Trump
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On Friday, after almost a full month of bombing Iran, Donald Trump offered a glimpse of the end. American military operations in the country, he said, could soon be “winding down.
Why Does Watching TV Feel Like Homework? (Just Me?)
With apologies to baseball, I believe that binge-watching television may have become America’s true pastime. TV sets have ruled living rooms for decades, but gone are the days of viewers exclusively following broadcast schedules. Netflix and its peers have rendered entertainment addictively customizable and hyper-accessible, making entire seasons of shows available at once and commissioning original series of their own.
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Ill-Fated Francophilia
Today’s trivia is not asserting that loving France makes you lose the presidency, but it’s not not asserting that. See for yourself!
And by the way, did you know—classic fun fact incoming—that thanks to its overseas territories, France technically spans more time zones than any other country?
The European part of France exists entirely within one time zone.
Military Families Once Again Brace for a Knock
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Even before his son was in high school, Mylo Simmons told me, there was something about flying that fascinated him. Some days, Simmons and his son, Tyler, would sit in the car together, pulled over on a street with a clear view of an airport runway, watching planes take off and land. Tyler was “looking up at the sky all the time,” his father said. “He wanted to be up there.
‘You Want to Leave Us Alone With Mojtaba?’
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The war in Iran has horrified many inside the country, but some worry that peace could be just as frightening. “I am shit-scared,” Shaghayeh, a 32-year-old living in Tehran, told me last week. “But I won’t cheer if the war ends now. You want to leave us alone with Mojtaba?”
Shaghayeh, a left-wing activist, was referring to the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, whose regime continues to impose a near-total internet blackout.
The Situation at Airports Is an Even Bigger Mess Than You Think
TSA shortages, ICE agents in terminals, and security lines stretching for hours: You might want to consider booking a train instead.
As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: AFGE Union Steward
The partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security has caused major staffing shortages within the Transportation Security Administration, an agency under DHS that handles airport security procedures created in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. TSA officers have not been paid for over a month, leading to hundreds of resignations and leaves of absence.
Bruce Springsteen Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary at the historic Riverside Church in New York City with live performances by guests including musician Bruce Springsteen. Springsteen performed his new song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and spoke about his upcoming tour, which begins in Minneapolis next week. Watch the full event here.
“Under the Rubble”: Pulitzer Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
Democracy Now! celebrated its 30th anniversary at the historic Riverside Church in New York City with live performances by guests including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha. Mosab Abu Toha read his poem “Under the Rubble” and spoke about his experience surviving Israel’s genocide of Gaza, which killed 30 members of his extended family. Watch the full event here.
“Israel First”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War
“This is about how far Israel can extend its dominion, how much of a hard-power, dominant hegemon it can be in the region.” Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project says that U.S. involvement in the ongoing war on Iran is being driven by Israel’s expansionist ambitions in the Middle East. “Israel is still on the impunity high from its Gaza genocide, which has led us here.” Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, also provides analysis of current U.S.
Is HBO Losing Its Edge?
HBO’s prestige TV luster seems to be taking a hit with the various mergers and rebrands.
Something Nefarious Is Quietly Taking Over Your Neighborhood Doctor’s Office
It’s quietly reshaping Main Street medicine. Your wallet—and health—might suffer as a result.
Money Talks: Do You Know What You Just Signed?
Mitu Gulati explains how the pervasive use of boilerplate is creating a legal crisis.