While President Donald Trump has been flexing America’s might overseas, he’s also working to impose his will on the nation’s capital. Trump’s urban interventions in DC’s built environment have raised eyebrows and sparked lawsuits. The changes to DC are already underway, from the bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House to make way […]

You might remember feminist writer Lindy West from her days on X (né Twitter) yelling at sexist, anti-fat trolls. Or from her book Shrill. Now, West is back with Adult Braces, a memoir detailing her journey, a literal road trip, to accepting her husband’s request to open up their marriage. Except it wasn’t really a […]

For the past 20 years, there’s basically been one guy in Republican politics who was known as the Iran war guy.  For years, even decades, John Bolton has argued for regime change in Iran, and for America to take a proactive military role to make that happen. Bolton served as the US ambassador to the United […]

Big changes are happening at OpenAI. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would be shutting down their AI video creation app Sora only a couple months after its launch. In October, OpenAI completed a massive restructure of its organization that shakes the very foundations it was built on.  OpenAI, which powers ChatGPT, among other […]

This week, juries in California and New Mexico dealt a pair of landmark verdicts against America’s social media giants.  In Los Angeles, jurors awarded $6 million to a young woman who alleged that Instagram and YouTube had damaged her mental health. A day earlier, a jury in Santa Fe ruled that Meta had designed its […]