Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Tylenol manufacturer amid Trump’s pressure campaign
The lawsuit comes as the Trump administration has promoted unproven claims linking Tylenol use to autism.
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Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever.
Millions Face Soaring Health Insurance Premiums as GOP Refuses to Extend Obamacare Subsidies
The central fight in the U.S. federal government shutdown has been over healthcare costs, with Democrats demanding that Republicans agree to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act set to expire this Saturday. Without an extension of those subsidies, health premiums could more than double for millions of people across the country. The enhanced subsidies were first put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
42 Million to Lose Food Assistance as Trump Refuses to Tap Emergency SNAP Funds
More than 1.4 million federal employees missed their first full paychecks on Friday as the government shutdown enters its fifth week. Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture warns that food aid to 42 million people could be cut off starting November 1, as the Trump administration refuses to use a $5 billion contingency fund to maintain SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, popularly known as food stamps.
Calls Grow for Humanitarian Ceasefire in Sudan as RSF Forces Seize Key City of El Fasher in Darfur
Sudan’s military has withdrawn from El Fasher, its last stronghold in the country’s Darfur region, ceding control of the city to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after an 18-month siege. The United Nations and the African Union have called for safe passage for civilians and an immediate ceasefire, condemning reports of war crimes by RSF fighters including summary executions of civilians.
Money Talks: The Angel of Death Loophole and Other Ways our Tax Code Favors the Wealthy
Ray Madoff joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to discuss her book The Second Estate on the ways in which the US tax code helps the rich get richer.
Examining the Louvre Heist’s Take-Home Pay
Stealing priceless jewels from the world’s most famous museum may not actually pay that well.
Where Are the Credit Cockroaches Hiding?
Are the “cockroaches” Jamie Dimon spoke of really a private credit problem or are they a bit closer to home?
Michigan Might Have Just Crushed One of Its Most Successful Industries
It may only be the beginning of a wider crackdown for the Wolverine State’s marijuana industry.
This Issue Causes $1 Billion of Damage Each Year. Nobody Is Talking About It.
Next week’s rain might be the start of a sinkhole near you.
In his battle with doctors, RFK Jr.’s got GOP lawmakers on his side
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s at war with the groups that represent physicians. Some GOP doctors in Congress are backing him up.
‘The pro-life movement still has some real juice’: How Trump’s promise of free IVF fizzled
A lobbying blitz by social and religious conservatives paid off last week when Trump announced policies that fell short of his promise to make fertility treatments, which they oppose, free.
Vought promised to use the shutdown to shutter the bureaucracy. It didn’t go as planned.
The White House advised agencies to go big on downsizing, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. They haven’t.
ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount
Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.
How Did a Gay Church Embrace the Identity of “a Church with AIDS”?
Two queer religion geeks move to San Francisco. And Easter communion gets real in the age of AIDS.
Why an Out Queer Person in the Gay Liberation Days of the ’70s Would Go To Church
Troy Perry starts the gay/lesbian Metropolitan Community Church. A young lesbian is a regular at the San Francisco congregation when her friend gets sick.
How an LGBTQ+ Christian Church Faced AIDS in 1980s and ’90s San Francisco.
Rescued archival audio takes listeners into the heart of an LGBTQ+ church during the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s and ’90s San Francisco.
Is Aziz Ansari Sorry?
The Waves also discusses the Riverside Church controversy and the case of Sarah Milov.
Trump’s approval holds steady despite unpopular policies, per new NYT poll
Trump’s strength with Republicans on the economy could prove to be a boon for the GOP.
New poll reveals warning signs for Trump with Latino voters
A survey from the liberal-leaning group Somos Votantes shows Latino voters are souring on the president.
Trump is selling a strong economy. Voters aren’t buying it.
Privately, aides concede voters remain uneasy about prices but argue their policies are beginning to turn things around.
“Criminal Justice Is Criminal”: New Film Is “Musical Indictment” of Cash Bail & Deadly Houston Jail
The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill.
How the 7 most vulnerable House Republicans feel about an ACA extension
House Republicans in the toughest races in the nation are generally open to talks with Democrats on extending subsidies, with caveats.
Trump Needs the UN in Gaza
Immediately after Hamas and Israel agreed to the first phase of President Donald Trump’s peace plan, food and medical supplies were supposed to start flooding into the Gaza Strip. Like other key aspects of the agreement, that influx did not go exactly as planned. Some food, fuel, medical supplies, and other resources are moving, but the flow of aid remains clogged.
The Military’s Missile Defense System Cannot Be as Good as It Says
The Defense Department is notoriously picky about films that depict military and national-security issues, and understandably so. Many movies that feature the military get a lot of things wrong, including innocent flaws such as actors who are the wrong age for the rank on their costume, or scripts that invent procedures or terms that don’t exist.
A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn’t Just Be Illegal—It Would be Dangerous
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President Donald Trump dropped the news casually at the very end of a White House roundtable this past Thursday.
Today’s Atlantic Trivia
It’s said that the 17th- and 18th-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was the last person to know everything. He was a whiz at philosophy, law, logic, science, engineering, politics—the works. But there was also simply less to know back then; the post–Industrial Revolution knowledge explosion killed the universal genius.
Which is to say that I bet Leibniz wouldn’t know the full oeuvre of K-pop if he were alive today.
No One Actually Knows What a Moon Is
In August, an amateur French astronomer, Adrien Coffinet, messaged an email list dedicated to asteroid and comet research with an announcement. He’d identified a new quasi-moon: “2025 PN7 seems to be a quasi-satellite of the Earth,” he wrote. Last week, news of the quasi-moon went mainstream, as a surge of headlines declared that Earth officially had a second moon.
This isn’t exactly right: As several scientists reiterated to me, Earth still only has one real moon.
NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Rallies with Bernie Sanders & AOC, Confronts Islamophobic Attacks
A record 164,000 people cast ballots in New York on the first two days of early voting in the city’s mayoral race. If elected, Zohran Mamdani would be the city’s first Muslim mayor. In recent days, he has faced a string of Islamophobic attacks.