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Even John Bolton is against this Iran war

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 […]

The contradiction at the heart of OpenAI

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 […]

Courts are finally punishing Big Tech for harming kids. Here’s the catch.

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 […]

The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran

Nearly a month into the joint US-Israeli war on Iran, there’s a good chance you’ve heard something about the apparent civil war on the right over the conflict. Though polling shows steady support for President Donald Trump from his MAGA base, the war has been tearing apart the MAGAsphere, pitting disenchanted MAGA influencers against fervent […]

The sneaky way Trump’s lawyers are supercharging ICE

Shortly after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, his administration started illegally detaining immigrants without giving them a bond hearing or other method of avoiding incarceration while an immigration judge determines if they are in the country legally.  The overwhelming majority of federal judges have rejected this illegal practice. As Politico’s Kyle […]