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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Bonus: SchadenFriday: Are You Fitter Than an ICE Applicant?
You can have enough ICE recruits or you can have standards for the shape that they’re in, but you can’t have both—this was just one lesson Donald Tru…
7 months, 1 week ago
TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming
Trump promised to stop the “persecution” of the cryptocurrency industry. He did call off the SEC investigations that began under Biden, and pardoned …
7 months, 1 week ago
Who Killed the Penny? She Did.
People have been talking about how the penny is more trouble than it’s worth for 50 years—so why drop it now? And—other than having nothing to put in…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Sudan on the Brink
Ongoing civil war in Sudan has left tens of thousands dead, with millions displaced. A country of great natural resources, regional foreign governmen…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Have the Epstein Files Broken MAGA?
You can’t really blame Donald Trump for thinking he could just handwave away the Epstein Files. But for the first time in what feels like forever, hi…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The National Guard Is Asking Questions
Trump can’t seem to decide if the National Guard is needed in American cities to stop violent crime, or to assist ICE deportations, or something else…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
How Meta Profits Off Fraud
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, doesn’t (just) have a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a thi…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
TBD | Data Centers on the Ballot
They don’t cut cleanly along party lines, but data centers, and where they get built, became an election issue in Virginia. With so many more data ce…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Wikipedia Enters the Culture Wars
Why would Elon Musk attempt to replace Wikipedia—which is already quite futuristic, utopian and accurate—with a faulty, hallucinatory A.I.-powered “G…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
It didn’t take long to go from Beyoncé holding for applause in front of the word “FEMINISM” to a headline in the New York Times asking “Did Women Rui…
7 months, 3 weeks ago