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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Mamdani’s Public Grocery Store Idea
2+ hour ago City-owned grocery stores are perhaps the most hotly debated item on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's proposed affordability agenda. Proponents point to runaway food prices and the need to provide fresh groceries to the Big Apple's underserved communities. Critics…...
The Year the Movies Went Big on Isolation
3+ hour, 20+ min ago Stop me if you've heard this one before: Two lovers who are officially Going Through It decamp to a Cabin in the Woods to work things out. 2025 featured a series of sweaty, intimate thrillers about couples therapy exercises gone dangerously…...
Biden Moved These Men off Death Row. Trump Wants Them Back On.
11+ hour, 8+ min ago That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in office he sat on the issue, only turning to it a month after Donald Trump had won his…...
The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
2+ day, 3+ hour ago There was no shortage of bad news to cover in 2025. But I want to end the year by looking to the future and focusing on something more joyous: detrumpification. I spent most of this year'indeed, most of this last decade'thinking…...
Is This What Got Ghislaine Maxwell Her Cushy Prison Transfer?
2+ day, 14+ hour ago Newly released transcripts of Ghislaine Maxwell's July interview with the Justice Department depict a surprisingly chilly relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, despite varied reports that the glitterati socialites were each other's closest friends. In transcripts made available Friday…...
Trump Is in Epstein’s Contact Book. So Is His Entire Family.
2+ day, 15+ hour ago Surprise, surprise: President Donald Trump was in Jeffrey Epstein's contact list. Buried in the massive trove of documents released by the Department of Justice Friday was Epstein's 90-page contact book filled with names of high-profile celebrities'including Donald Trump and his…...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of New York Governor Race After Trump Snubs
2+ day, 15+ hour ago Republican Representative and MAGA hard-liner Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she will be dropping out of the New York gubernatorial race. While the move is surprising given that Stefanik was once one of the GOP's rising stars, it comes after…...
Justice Department Releases Epstein Files—With Broken Search Tool
2+ day, 15+ hour ago The Department of Justice finally released its first trove of files on Jeffrey Epstein Friday afternoon'with a broken search tool. The government was legally required to release all the files Friday, but took their time, and ultimately only released a…...
Sarah McBride Convinced Four Republicans to Defect on Trans Bill
2+ day, 16+ hour ago Representative Sarah McBride'the first out transgender member of Congress'had to lobby Republicans to strike down an anti-trans bill because she knew her Democratic colleagues abandoned her. "We're most interested in the caucus, right? But we also suspected we might lose…...
Marco Rubio Stands by Cuts That Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People
2+ day, 16+ hour ago Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's proud of shuttering the U.S. Agency of International Development'but he really shouldn't be. During a press conference Friday, Rubio was asked whether he stood by his false claim earlier this year that the Trump…...