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In the face of a tariff shock, an energy shock and a fiscal shock, the Fed is opting to ra... more

The party that holds the White House always braces for backlash in the midterm elections. ... more

Former labor organizer and iron worker Brian Poindexter embodies the emerging blue-collar,... more

Artificial intelligence is pitched as a potential economic powerhouse—and also a potential... more

Donald Trump announced that he was banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW at kind of a weird tim... more

Donald Trump’s in-roads with Latino voters was one of the surprises of his 2024 victory, c... more

Trans rights have become something that’s argued about in the abstract—are Democrats too f... more

Donald Trump owes his political career to saying what no other politician would. But now t... more

What it means that Macklemore decided he’d rather keep speaking out for Palestine than con... more

Don Trump Jr.’s wedding had everything: a private island, fireworks, a Funfetti cake airli... more

Why did the “Hugging Face Incident” scare A.I. researchers so much? And if they are so con... more

Those concerned that the Trump administration will interfere with the upcoming midterm ele... more

Childcare is expensive and who wouldn’t want to spend more time with their kids? Giving pa... more

The GOP just held a midterm convention that was centered around the one thing their base s... more

There are thousands of people protesting the Trump family every day—but they aren’t Americ... more

After OpenAI agents hacked a rival company this summer, the word from Silicon Valley was “... more

America didn’t start down the path to a president who is unaccountable to even the Constit... more

Thousands of immigrants who were in America legally were suddenly rendered unemployable an... more

The stage is set for the president’s party to take a real shellacking in this year’s midte... more

While the What Next team enjoys the holiday, hear this episode from our friends at [Questi... more

Does Meta’s $17 billion (give or take) settlement address people’s concerns about social m... more

Extraditing someone who was arrested in one state for a crime committed in another state i... more

Inflation is up, borrowing is up, debt is rising. If the bond market is offering a review ... more

The WNBA is enjoying its most profitable and popular season in league history. At the same... more

Donald Trump, Supreme Court justices, states, and even the Post Office are all trading leg... more

The idea of a big ol’ group of friends taking a vacation sounds so fun…in theory. In pract... more

Through stealing your job or simply tanking the stock market—whichever comes first—the ris... more

From the trade war with Canada to the literal war with Iran, US foreign policy seems to ha... more

Intertwined with many Americans’ contempt for data centers is their suspicion of artificia... more

As the trial of Lindsay Clancy over the murder of her three children goes into closing arg... more