This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are deploying to US airports as a Homeland Security funding lapse stretches on. What’s happening? Over the weekend, President Donald […]

If the United States had a nonpartisan judiciary, Watson v. Republican National Committee would have been laughed out of court months ago. The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson is that, beginning in 1845, Congress banned states from counting many absentee ballots — and somehow no one noticed this for the better part […]

For more than four decades, technological progress has been undermining expert authority, democratizing public debate, and steering individuals toward ever-more bespoke conceptions of reality. In the mid-20th century, the high costs of television production — and physical limitations of the broadcast spectrum — tightly capped the number of networks. ABC, NBC, and CBS collectively owned […]

Greetings from hell — that is, the third trimester of my high-risk pregnancy with fraternal twins. Unlike every pregnant person on Instagram who is either waltzing around a meadow, cradling their bump in total bliss, or sorting through chic baby decor somewhere in their 7,000 square foot mansion, I have found pregnancy to be abhorrent.  […]

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Gasoline prices continue ticking higher as the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues. As of March 23, the national average stands at $3.96 per gallon, nearly a dollar higher than at the start of the conflict. It’s also just shy […]