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Donald Trump Has Finally Wielded His Presidential Power for Good
RIP to one of air travel’s most cursed features.
Money Talks: The Path to Affordable Childcare
Yale researcher Martha Gimble explains The Budget Lab’s research into early childhood education and care policies.
What the Shell?
The Trump administration is axing a bipartisan anti-corruption law that would require shell companies to disclose their beneficiaries.
Starbucks and McDonald’s Keep Pushing These Drinks. I Have a Distressing Theory Why.
America’s favorite new sweet treat is a glaring recession indicator.
Trump to select Heidi Overton for FDA commissioner
The agency has been under acting leadership since May.
Former Fauci aide pleads guilty to dodging federal public records laws
David Morens’ former boss, Anthony Fauci, has said he did not participate in a scheme to hide emails about a controversial researcher’s funding.
Vance presses Justice Department to investigate hospitals over transgender care
The Trump administration alleges that some hospitals are incorrectly billing for gender-affirming care.
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’s pick to lead the FDA faces uphill Senate battle
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Bill Cassidy has already signaled her vaccine policy work may cost her his vote.
A Stubbornly Naive Group of GOP Senators
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For many observers of American politics, the past few years have been disillusioning, knocking down hopeful beliefs about what the people of the United States will support or tolerate. Even some of Donald Trump’s backers have become disaffected.
Are You Sure You Want a Car With a Giant Touch Screen?
New drivers may never have to learn how to parallel park. At least not the old-fashioned way. Many new cars—a Ford Mustang Mach-E, a BMW sedan, a Tesla Cybertruck—will just maneuver into a spot for you with a click of a button. Even a decade-old Toyota Corolla has a backup camera and pedestrian detection.
Why the Closing of Harvard’s Writing Center Matters
It is not every day that the laying off of a university bureaucrat generates a torrent of criticism from students, faculty, and alumni. But Jane Rosenzweig was not just any university bureaucrat, and she was not presiding over just any administrative fiefdom. The dismantling of Harvard University’s writing center, and the laying off of Rosenzweig, its director—both announced last month—has been met with outcry shading into outrage.
The ‘Resistance’ Is Over
Is Donald Trump over? Can we all now relax and move on to the next thing?
That’s the message from a significant portion of Democratic primary voters. Just as Trump is bored with Iran and the economy and wants to play with monuments and gilding, so too are many Democratic primary voters in Florida and elsewhere bored with Trump and eager to play factional politics instead.
Judge halts Trump’s abstinence-only overhaul of teen sex ed program
But the ruling will not restore tens of millions in funds cut earlier this summer.
Photos: Drone Attacks on Russia’s Wildberries Warehouses
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A man looks at a burning warehouse belonging to the Russian online retailer Wildberries in the Utkina Zavod area, near the village of Novosaratovka, following a drone attack. During the night of July 24, 2026, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack targeting Wildberries warehouses in the Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona
A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is a 200-year-old cottonwood known as a “grandmother” tree, with activists sitting in the tree to physically stop its destruction.
Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas
The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project. Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, sparking rare bipartisan pushback. The construction is part of a larger plan for the Big Bend region to build hundreds of miles of walls, vehicle barriers and other border infrastructure.
“Profoundly Corrupt”: Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month
We speak with Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project, which is part of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his plan to monetize access to his social media platform Truth Social, where he routinely makes market-moving announcements. Truth API went live on August 1 and already has subscribers. Truth Social is charging up to $100,000 per month for early access to the president’s posts, giving investors an edge on major news events.
Trump’s “Authoritarian Takeover” of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Free Press’s Jessica González
We look at major media news with Jessica González, co-CEO of the advocacy organization Free Press. She discusses the landmark lawsuit against Meta for making its social media platforms addictive for young people, efforts to halt the Paramount-Warner Bros. megamerger, and Disney’s lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission over what it calls the Trump administration’s “retaliatory campaign” against the ABC television network.
What the Shell?
The Trump administration is axing a bipartisan anti-corruption law that would require shell companies to disclose their beneficiaries.
Starbucks and McDonald’s Keep Pushing These Drinks. I Have a Distressing Theory Why.
America’s favorite new sweet treat is a glaring recession indicator.
Vance presses Justice Department to investigate hospitals over transgender care
The Trump administration alleges that some hospitals are incorrectly billing for gender-affirming care.
NIH head quarrels with CBS host over loss in public trust on health issues
Jay Bhattacharya’s interview ended up similar in tone to the one with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week on CNN.
The Trump admin offered sick Medicaid patients a 1-year lifeline. These red states are rejecting it.
Several conservative states will require proof from people who say they’re too sick to work.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.