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Why You Should Care About Someone Else’s McDonald’s Breakfast
The Egg McMuffin might be the canary in the coal mine for the U.S. economy.
This Trump Executive Order Might Just Set Up the Next Financial Crisis
Private equity and credit firms need new investors. This is where Donald Trump—and you—come in.
Trump Is Making a Modification to the White House. It’s a Perfect Monument to His Presidency.
The president is trying to bring a taste of Mar-a-Lago to D.C.—but it’s not as unprecedented as some people think.
Money Talks: The Fabulous Wealth of Carrie Bradshaw
Cheyna Roth joins Emily Peck to dissect the money on display in And Just Like That…
Why the ivory tower wants a deal with Trump
The schools won a reprieve in court, but they’re still offering the president a compromise.
Top vaccine regulator returns to FDA after recent firing
Vinay Prasad had been dismissed less than two weeks ago.
Everything we know about the fatal shooting near CDC headquarters
The shooting comes amid an already tumultuous time for CDC staff.
Is Aziz Ansari Sorry?
The Waves also discusses the Riverside Church controversy and the case of Sarah Milov.
Your Opinions on Her Wardrobe Are Probably Unwelcome
What we say matters, especially depending on whom we say it to.
What Role Does HR Play in the #MeToo Era?
The Waves also discusses the case against Jeffrey Epstein and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Fleishman Is in Trouble.
Former Trump statistics chief slams Friday firing of Erika McEntarfer
Bill Beach said the president’s suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers are assembled.
Trump fires statistics chief after soft jobs report
The monthly jobs report showed just 73,000 jobs in July, with big reductions to May’s and June’s numbers
Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: Victims Want “Accountability & Justice,” Not Political Grandstanding
Jess Michaels lives with the PTSD from her 1991 assault by the serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She is part of a national chorus of voices calling on the Trump administration to release files related to the federal case against Epstein, who reportedly died by suicide while awaiting trial in 2019.
“They Poisoned the World”: The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS, “Forever Chemicals”
In a major victory for environmental advocates, chemical giant DuPont and its related companies have agreed to pay $2 billion to clean up four industrial sites in New Jersey that are contaminated with “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, which have been found to persist in everything from rainwater to human breast milk.
Gaza Takeover: Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s “Indefinite, Genocidal Military Campaign”
Israel’s security cabinet has announced the approval of a plan to occupy Gaza City, moving its ongoing military offensive north and displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians to camps in central Gaza. Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani emphasizes that the new strategy is simply “the first phase of a larger plan” for the permanent displacement, occupation and annexation of the entire Gaza Strip, as confirmed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a recent interview with Fox News.
The Global Plastic Threat: Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to Disease, Disability & Premature Death
Negotiations are underway in Geneva on a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty that has been in the works for several years, as the crisis of pollution from plastics worldwide has grown more acute. An estimated 8 billion metric tons of plastic waste now pollute the planet. Without changes, the production of plastic is expected to triple by 2060 — much of it driven by single-use plastics.
Trump’s former surgeon general blasts Kennedy for ‘tepid’ response to CDC shootings
Dr. Jerome Adams said HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “failed” in his response to the deadly violence.
Surface Support
For the man getting home late to the line. He calls calling with a
miniaturist’s awareness (cold to touch), though somewhere still on
fire. He couldn’t write to save the monsoon in his eye. Twinkling
cities in competing moats. Louchely entering together the lesser gulf
as it hammers down like fibers
in a cut card mill
before the shower.
The Judgments of Muriel Spark
The novelist Muriel Spark died almost 20 years ago, but she still regularly appears on lists of top comic novelists to read on this subject or that. Crave more White Lotus–level skewering of the ridiculous rich? Try Memento Mori, The New York Times suggests. An acerbic take on boring dinner parties? Symposium.
Trump Invites Putin to Step Foot in America
Vladimir Putin is coming to America, despite the international warrant for the Russian president’s arrest, despite his years of hostile threats against NATO, and despite him showing no remorse for his invasion of a sovereign nation.
None of that matters to President Donald Trump, who announced Friday night that he would meet the globally shunned leader this Friday in Alaska.
Literature’s Enduring Obsession With Strange Sisters
Something is rotten in the village of Little Nettlebed. There isn’t enough rain. A sturgeon of ungodly proportions has been beached on the bank of the Thames. Worse, five sisters have tried to save its life, defying both the mysterious beneficence that brought the fish to shore and local norms dictating that it must be killed for food. In the glow of the late-afternoon sun, the world is no longer beautiful.
CDC shooter believed Covid vaccine made him suicidal, his father tells police
DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was mortally wounded while responding.
Yes, a Moon Base
No one can say that the Trump administration is entirely against alternative energy. In his first bold policy stroke as NASA’s interim head, Sean Duffy has directed the agency to put a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon by decade’s end. This is not a lark. If humanity means to establish a permanent settlement on the moon, nuclear power will almost certainly be essential to its operation.
Why You Should Care About Someone Else’s McDonald’s Breakfast
The Egg McMuffin might be the canary in the coal mine for the U.S. economy.
This Trump Executive Order Might Just Set Up the Next Financial Crisis
Private equity and credit firms need new investors. This is where Donald Trump—and you—come in.
Trump Is Making a Modification to the White House. It’s a Perfect Monument to His Presidency.
The president is trying to bring a taste of Mar-a-Lago to D.C.—but it’s not as unprecedented as some people think.
Money Talks: The Fabulous Wealth of Carrie Bradshaw
Cheyna Roth joins Emily Peck to dissect the money on display in And Just Like That…