Favorite President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 13, 2024. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The leadership of the Democratic Party deserves significant blame for the return of Donald Trump to the White House. While there were multiple factors at play, it must…
Favorite Elon Musk at a ceremony held to inaugurate Starlink access at a community health center in Denpasar, Indonesia, on May 19, 2024. Photo: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has transformed himself into the veritable Republican shadow candidate. Even before he officially endorsed Donald Trump following the…
Favorite An immigrant family show their paperwork to security guards at the Roosevelt Hotel on Jan. 9, 2024, in NYC. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP Photo During the presidential debate, Kamala Harris cracked up when Donald Trump ranted about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, supposedly snatching and eating local residents’ cats and dogs. The vice president rolled…
Favorite Donald Trump walks on stage to speak at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference, on Aug. 26, 2024, in Detroit. Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP Over the last few years, as it grew increasingly likely that Donald Trump would mount a third campaign for the White House, leading press critics and…
Favorite Donald Trump and J.D. Vance on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wis. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images Silicon Valley has gone MAGA. GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance is a former venture capitalist with deep ties to the conservative tech milieu, and the choice seems to…
Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is running a series of stories about a few of the people involved in the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) co-design process. We’ll be featuring the voices of the volunteers who have helped shape and are shaping the Definition. The OSI started researching the topic in 2022, and in…
Favorite When people told aid worker Fayad Mulla that as soon as asylum seekers land on Greek soil, they’re immediately chased by groups of “masked men” assigned to kidnap them, Mulla found it hard to lend the stories credence. Reports and rumors about black ops by Greek authorities have floated around for years, but…
Favorite President Joe Biden meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Alsalam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 15, 2022. Photo: Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image Why does Joe Biden insist on pursuing a foreign policy of blind support of Israel’s war on Gaza? In addition to the…
Favorite Abortion rights demonstrators rally in Scottsdale, Ariz., on April 15, 2024. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images If the right wanted to bring more babies into the world by banning abortion, the plan is backfiring. In fact, abortions have increased since June 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Every state without a…
Favorite Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks during a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on March 21, 2024. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images It doesn’t take much to be accused of supporting terrorism these days. And that doesn’t just go for student activists. In recent months, dozens of lawmakers and public officials…
