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How Trump made his Justice Department a tool for retribution

President Donald Trump has been trying to use the Department of Justice as his personal law firm. Under Trump’s DOJ, cases are dropped for personal political reasons or built without evidence. The DOJ has also sought to prosecute Trump’s adversaries and political foes, including James Comey, the former FBI director, and Letitia James, the New […]

Here’s a glimmer of hope about AI and jobs

The most recent jobs numbers paint a pretty grim picture of the labor market and the apparent havoc AI is wreaking on it. After warnings about unemployment among recent grads earlier this year, the newest report  suggests that AI’s impact is reaching a broader group of workers. There were over 150,000 layoffs in October, which […]

How routine police stops are becoming viral social media fodder

If you’re arrested in America for a minor charge — say, for speeding or loitering — the punishment from the legal system might end up being the least of your worries. You might wake up a few months later and see your arrest, filmed through a police body camera, with a million views on TikTok […]

8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving

Today, tens of millions of Americans will partake in a national ritual many of us say we don’t especially enjoy or find meaning in. We will collectively eat more than 40 million turkeys — factory farmed and heavily engineered animals that bear scant resemblance to the wild birds that have been apocryphally written into the […]

How to avoid the dreaded Thanksgiving food coma

When it comes to the holidays, we all have different traditions. But there does seem to be one commonality when it comes to Thanksgiving: feeling absolutely terrible after working your way through the turkey and all those sides.  It’s a state that Dr. Trisha Pasricha is familiar with. She’s a gastroenterologist, and she runs a […]