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.
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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.
“Completely Unprecedented”: Ari Berman on Trump’s Attack on Elections Ahead of Midterms
We get an update on elections and voting rights in the United States from Mother Jones’s national voting rights correspondent, Ari Berman, who warns of President Donald Trump’s escalating attempts to “try to claim dictatorial power” and commit an “unprecedented intervention” into the 2026 midterm elections.
The GOP senators Trump disrespected are now interrogating his nominees
John Cornyn, Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis are leaving the Senate after warring with Trump, but they still can block the president’s appointees.
“Block the Merger”: California AG Rob Bonta on 12 States Suing to Stop Paramount-Warner Mega Deal
Twelve Democratic-led states led by California sued this week to block Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount is run by David Ellison, whose father, Larry Ellison, is the billionaire founder of Oracle and a prominent ally and financial backer of President Donald Trump.
Israeli Settlers Attack Convoy of Journalists & Father of Palestinian American Killed 1 Year Ago
Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks and a knife attacked a convoy of journalists in the West Bank on Saturday, the latest targeting of foreign journalists documenting the Israeli occupation. Four settlers have reportedly been detained over the attack. The convoy, which included CNN’s Jeremy Diamond, were accompanying the father of Palestinian American Saif Musallet to the site where he was beaten to death by Israeli settlers one year ago.
“Fighting Back”: Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin, Pro-Israel Groups for Conspiracy to Suppress Speech
We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his lawsuit against top Trump administration officials, two pro-Israel groups and a conservative think tank for conspiring to suppress his constitutional right to free speech.
Khalil, who helped lead protests at Columbia University against the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, was one of several international students targeted for deportation by the Trump administration last year over pro-Palestine advocacy.
Fraud investigations are crumbling this state’s Medicaid system
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Medicaid fraud in Minnesota has upended finances and disrupted access to care.
Evernote Forever
It looks like Bending Spoons’ bet on nostalgia brands like AOL, Vimeo, and Evernote is playing off after its big IPO this week.
Money Talks: The Morality Market
Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth explains what we learn when markets are shaped by big ethical questions.
It’s Not You, It’s NBC: the Great Media Breakup
Comcast splits from NBCUniversal as media companies realize bigger isn’t better.
There’s a Global Shortage of a Crucial Material. You’re Using It Right Now. It’s About to Get Worse.
The A.I. boom and the Iran war are driving demand for chips to unprecedented levels—leading to bigger price tags for your gadgets.
Is the Fed Having a Greenspanaissance?
Alan Greenspan died this week at the age of 100, but his legacy lives on with the Fed’s current chairman.
RFK Jr. wants you to get more preventive care. Some experts say that’s a bad idea.
But the health secretary has allies among some patient advocates and makers of tests that detect disease.
Residents in Congo cling to hope as Ebola treatment trial begins
Survival will be tracked for 28 days after starting treatment
Conservatives rage over re-funding of Planned Parenthood
Despite the restoration of Medicaid funding for health care services — but not abortions — dozens of closed clinics are not likely to reopen.
Here’s why your health insurer is sounding more like RFK Jr.
Insurers are embracing the health secretary’s Make America Healthy Again movement as the GOP looks to cut health care costs.
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.
Who Really Controls the Strait of Hormuz?
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Yesterday, President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States would become the “GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” blockading Iranian ports and ensuring the safe passage of non-Iranian vessels. And in the spirit of “FAIRNESS,” he added, the U.S. would charge vessels a fee for the trouble.
Marco Rubio’s Disappearing Signal Chat
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, like most federal officials, is legally required to retain records that he creates as part of his job. So it was no surprise that his office ended up in court last year after The Atlantic revealed that he had participated in an auto-deleting Signal chat about war plans in Yemen with other top national-security officials.
The Bizarre Partnership Between the U.S. and Venezuela
James Story, America’s last chargé d’affaires in Venezuela before the embassy closed in 2019, left after the foreign minister passed along a message. The warning was stark, Story told me: If he stayed, he might be murdered.
When American diplomats raised the flag at the embassy in March, for the first time in seven years, they stood outside a building that had been festering in the tropical heat and taken over by black mold.
Americans in Congo barred from immediately returning home amidst Ebola outbreak
U.S. citizens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will have to spend 21 days in a third country before returning to the U.S., even if they show no signs of disease.
The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit
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Late last night, at the end of a day that started with the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine, the second fatal shooting involving a vehicle stop in a week, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Liana Castano sent out an email to top ICE supervisors around the country. “Effective immediately,” Castano wrote, “vehicle stops are suspended until further notice.
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.
As they scramble to keep their systems online, AI companies are making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude are so resource-hungry that tech companies may be purchasing 70 percent of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage.
“Completely Unprecedented”: Ari Berman on Trump’s Attack on Elections Ahead of Midterms
We get an update on elections and voting rights in the United States from Mother Jones’s national voting rights correspondent, Ari Berman, who warns of President Donald Trump’s escalating attempts to “try to claim dictatorial power” and commit an “unprecedented intervention” into the 2026 midterm elections.