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“Muskism”: Author Quinn Slobodian on How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk’s Worldview & More

In the new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk and the ideology that has coalesced around him. They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.”
Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

Is It the Shoes?

Updated at 11:05 p.m. ET on April 27, 2026
To understand the significance of someone running a marathon in less than two hours, you also need to understand that, until recently, the notion of this actually happening was truly, utterly absurd. Sure, a physiologist named Michael Joyner had floated the idea that such a feat might be humanly possible in a journal paper way back in 1991. But his peers laughed off the idea, and not much changed over the succeeding decades.

MAHA’s Perfect Villain

This morning, a crowd gathered near the Supreme Court to protest the weed-killer Roundup. Inside, justices heard arguments for Monsanto v. Durnell, weighing whether to exempt the company that created Roundup from lawsuits alleging that it failed to warn users that its herbicide causes cancer. Outside, the protesters rehearsed long-running grievances against Monsanto: One man was passing out flyers about “the hidden truth” of genetically modified food, and one speaker railed against “Mon-Satan.

The Shooting Is Not a Reason to Speedrun Trump’s Ballroom

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Within hours after an attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, President Trump declared that the incident showed the need to build a ballroom at the White House without delay. “We need the ballroom,” he told reporters in a press conference.

Even Hollywood’s Funniest People Have to Compromise

The best way to sneak a comedy into theaters these days, it seems, is to make it a crime drama. Over Your Dead Body is billed as the latest effort from the director Jorma Taccone—a surprising name to be attached, considering his filmography. His previous features are Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and MacGruber, two of the better comedies released in the 2010s (back when such things still regularly appeared in cinemas).

What the Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Means for the World Cup, America’s 250th, and Other Major Events

On Saturday night, a heavily armed shooter was able to easily access areas close to the ballroom where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held, leading to a rushed evacuation of the president and senior officials and a hectic, scary evening for attendees. Why wasn’t the event safe from this kind of a situation? It’s a fair question, but perhaps the wrong one. The more realistic inquiry is whether this kind of event can be made safer.

Death by Firing Squad: Sister Helen Prejean on Trump’s Moves to Ramp Up Executions

The Justice Department is bringing back the use of firing squads and lethal injection using pentobarbital as it seeks to expedite and expand federal death penalty convictions and executions. No federal executions have been carried out since 2020, when the first Trump administration broke with over a decade of precedent and executed 13 people on death row. The second Trump administration is now pursuing the death penalty in dozens more cases across the country.

“Slow Civil War” Author Jeff Sharlet on the Growing Normalization of Violence at Home & Abroad

Writer Jeff Sharlet responds to the shooting event at White House correspondents’ dinner this weekend. We discuss the motivations of Cole Allen, the man accused of breaching security in an attempt to assassinate members of the Trump administration, as well as gun access in the United States and the growing violence across the political spectrum of what Sharlet calls a “slow civil war.

Rep. Ro Khanna on White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting, Political Violence, Epstein Files & More

We speak to Congressmember Ro Khanna about the apparent assassination attempt against President Donald Trump and members of his administration at the White House correspondents’ dinner. “Political violence strikes at the very heart of democracy. We cannot have a democracy if people are saying we’re going to kill you if we disagree with your viewpoint. And that has to be condemned in the most strong, unequivocal terms,” says Khanna.