An attack on “every sofa in the US”: States sue to block Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
12 states sued to block a proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. Led by California Attorney General...
“Foreign Tongues” is a worthy new chapter for The Rolling Stones
A mere 64 years after their debut, The Rolling Stones make their bravura return with “Foreign Tongues,” their 25th studio...
“There was never a case”: Judge tosses Trump IRS settlement, accuses admin of settling with itself
A federal judge threw out a settlement between the IRS and Donald Trump, concluding that the two parties to the...
A reminder that the pope can and will excommunicate you
Pope Leo XIV is dealing with his first schism.A small, conservative sect of Catholics were excommunicated from the church earlier...
Trump’s IRS Lawsuit Ruled A Sham, and Judge Orders Sanctions Against His Lawyers
The idea that a sitting president could sue their own administration and negotiate a settlement using taxpayer money with themselves...
Judge To Trump’s IRS Lawsuit Lawyers: Nice Try. Also, Here’s Your Bar Complaint
A federal judge in Florida just took a torch to the legal fiction Donald J. Trump built to make his...
It’s time to reclaim the Luddite
Delivering the commencement address at Wesleyan on May 24th, Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) inadvertently demonstrated the success of a century-spanning...
Trump’s energy policies are “fattening the wallets of his cronies” at public expense
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New ICE boss, same old lies
When Kristi Noem was pushed out of her job as the secretary of homeland security and replaced with Oklahoma’s GOP...
The one thing MAGA nativists get right
President Donald Trump blames immigrants for virtually every problem in American economic life. In the president’s telling, the undocumented have...
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