Today's Liberal News
Money Talks: What if Zero-sum Economics Is a Lie?
The director of the Ford Foundation’s mission investments program explains why assuming you can’t make a positive impact AND a profit is a big mistake.
The Private-Equity Confidence Game
The life of billionaire investor Leon Black, the private-equity behemoth he helped build, and his unfortunate friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
It Was a Neighborhood That Defined Millennials. A New Breed of Transplants Has Made It So Much Worse.
Williamsburg’s gentrifiers are being gentrified.
RFK Jr.’s movement now has corporate sponsors
The upcoming Make America Healthy Again Summit is brought to you by companies with business before the Health Department.
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
Bill Cassidy slams RFK Jr. over measles outbreaks but demurs on confirmation vote
The Louisiana Republican said vaccine skepticism that Kennedy and his MAHA backers promoted led to the recent measles deaths.
Industry titans’ warning to Congress: Do what we say or health insurance premiums are going up
Some of America’s biggest companies say a law aimed at protecting patients is about to hurt them instead.
Cassidy grills surgeon general pick on vaccines
Nicole Saphier rejected the notion that vaccines cause autism during her confirmation hearing.
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.
Sen. Kennedy rails against AI developers as ‘high IQ stupid people’
The Louisiana Republican’s comments come as both Democrats and Republicans have been forced to find ways to address the backlash against data centers.
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.
“We Are the 99%”: 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street’s Impact Is Still Being Felt
Fifteen years ago this week, thousands of activists marched on the Financial District in New York City. They formed the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, launching a movement focused on economic inequality that spread across the nation and globe under the slogan, “We are the 99%.” Protesters would go on to sleep in Zuccotti Park for nearly two months before police raided the encampment.
Choppers Drown Out Trump At White House Event, And People Can’t Stop Laughing
With no press pool covering the president, viewers were left watching Trump speak without sound — except for the helicopters.
Lindsay Clancy’s Attorney Asks Judge To Investigate Lone Juror Who Wanted A Conviction
Clancy’s lawyer wants to question the lone juror about his alleged use of a cellphone during deliberations, his truthfulness on a questionnaire for prospective jurors, and his truthfulness..
CNBC Host Presses Scott Bessent On Trump’s Press Ban: ‘We Don’t Do This In This Country’
Joe Kernen argued that answering tough, even hostile, questions is what sets the U.S. apart, but Bessent turned his criticism on the media instead.
Clip Shows Trump’s Media Ban Already Blowing Up In His Face
The press pool’s decision to halt White House coverage made footage from a Monday ribbon cutting ceremony painfully awkward.
GOP Strategist Reveals Republicans’ Private Thoughts On Trump Press Ban — And They’re Not Pretty
What Republicans are saying “behind closed doors” is worlds away from their public stance, according to one insider.
Photos: Wildflowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert
Javier Torres / AFP / Getty
An aerial view of patches of blooming wildflowers in the Atacama Desert near Copiapó, Chile, seen on September 18, 2026Javier Torres / AFP / Getty
People look at a carpet of flowers blooming in the Atacama Desert on September 18, 2026.Javier Torres / AFP / Getty
A car passes through a flower-covered area of the Atacama Desert on September 18, 2026.
What Were My Dreams Trying to Tell Me?
Illustrations by Hélène Blanc
When I was 20 years old, I started to sense a hole inside me. The feeling was utterly concrete, though the result of no medical condition that any of the various doctors I saw could identify. The hole felt like a viscous emptiness—a paradox, admittedly, as any real emptiness should have felt like nothing. This was a nothing, but its nothingness very much felt like something—and something that was growing.
In Defense of Guilt by Association
J. D. Vance and Abdul El-Sayed have very little in common ideologically and seem to like each other even less. As part of a nasty exchange of personal insults last month, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan implied that Vance’s grandfather would disapprove of the vice president’s Indian American wife. In response, Vance called El-Sayed “very, very evil” and warned him to “keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth because she’s way out of your league.
“America, Who Hurt You?”: Tony-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance
Sarah Jones has been described as “a one-woman global village” for her remarkable one-person, multi-character shows. The Tony- and Obie Award-winning writer and performer is best known for her Broadway hit Bridge and Tunnel. She is back in New York with her latest solo performance, America, Who Hurt You?, which is being presented by the National Black Theatre and the Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditions they faced in the Central African country. Samson Birhane, who is from Eritrea, and Ahmed Soliman, a gay asylum seeker from Egypt, were both deported by the Trump administration despite U.S. immigration courts granting them protections.
“War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage
News organizations CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated when they attempted to enter White House grounds over the weekend.
