Sirota’s Signals: It’s The Algorithms
Plus, why this is exactly the right time for Democratic infighting, how the Iranian revolution almost didn’t happen, and the Cabinet secretary who warned us.
Plus, why this is exactly the right time for Democratic infighting, how the Iranian revolution almost didn’t happen, and the Cabinet secretary who warned us.
Just days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk joined other right-wingers in ratcheting up his rhetoric. In a bizarre, downright dystopian, and often factually inaccurate virtual speech to a massive far-right anti-immigrant rally in London on Saturday, Musk urged attendees to “fight back” against their political enemies. Despite American officials’ bipartisan condemnations of […]
Mehdi challenges Syrian official Qutaiba Idlbi on his President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s past record as a militant and Al Qaeda leader, and on the new post-Assad Syria’s relations with Israel.
The complexity bias destroying the country, the death of a campus institution, and more from The Lever this week.
In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four in England whose world is upended when 13-year-old Jamie Miller—a bright, soft-spoken schoolboy—is arrested for murder. Jamie is accused of fatally stabbing a female classmate, Katie, apparently after being radicalized online. Through […]
This story was originally published by the High Country News in partnership with the Puente News Collaborative and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sunland Park, New Mexico, is not a notably online community. Retirees have settled in mobile homes around the small border town, just over the state line from El Paso. Some don’t own […]
When it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June, Congress handed nearly $75 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some $30 billion of that money will be spent on enforcement and deportation—hiring spree incoming—and another $45 billion will go toward new detention centers, including 50 by the end of the year. The OBBB […]
A week that began with shocking revelations about the president and the pedophile was quickly and shockingly overtaken by a brutal murder, followed by the dangerous smearing of Democrats and the left.