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Gavin Newsom’s outrageous $20M plan to honor California’s governors just months before he leaves office
Gavin Newsom has quietly introduced a navel-gazing proposal to honor California’s living governors just months before he becomes one himself — a move that’s grossing out his follow Democrats. Newsom’s bizarre proposal to spend $20 million of taxpayer’s money creating a “Governors’ Legacies” fund for California’s living former leaders has enraged his party’s lawmakers, as…
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Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet celebrate Knicks win with a kiss during Cleveland date night
Keeping up with the Knicks. Kylie Jenner and boyfriend Timothée Chalamet celebrated the New York Knicks’ historic win with a kiss during their date night in Cleveland. After the New York-based NBA team swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals Sunday, the “Kardashians” star and the “Wonka” actor packed on the PDA from…
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The Great Depopulation
Why has the number of births declined everywhere, all at once? Some blame technology, particularly smartphones and social media. Others blame a kind of 21st-century weltschmerz—a sadness about the state of the world and our uncertain future in it. A long essay in The New York Times by Anna Louie Sussman, titled “Why So Few…
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California colleges are seeing a rise of conservative voices. Some classes are tense
Despite being a political junkie and longtime fan of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, Shasta College senior Raymond Randolph hesitated to speak up about politics on campus. But Kirk’s killing during a Turning Point USA event at a Utah university in September changed that. “God was calling me up to the plate,” Randolph said. The day…
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When AI makes you worse at your job
If you’ve ever used an online patient portal to message your doctor in the middle of the night, you won’t be surprised to learn that responding to those messages takes an increasingly big bite out of clinicians’ workdays. So in recent years, hospitals have begun adopting an AI tool that can draft responses for them.…
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It’s not Vance. It’s not Rubio. GOP pollster reveals who MAGA voters actually want in 2028
Republican pollster Sarah Longwell says there is a name coming up repeatedly in her focus groups when voters are asked who they want to lead the country next — and it is not JD Vance, Marco Rubio, or any of the conventional 2028 frontrunners. It’s Candace Owens. “I think Candace Owens is great. I would…
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What to Know About the Hunger Strike and Protests at a New Jersey ICE Facility
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and pro-immigration activists face off outside the Delaney Hall migrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. —Andrew Lichtenstein—Corbis/Getty Images A detention facility in New Jersey has become the latest flashpoint over the Trump Administration’s immigration agenda, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials clashed with protesters…
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The Antitrust Theory of Everything
“I helped set in motion a revolution that aims to rebuild something like a true liberal democracy in America,” Barry C. Lynn wrote two years ago in Harper’s. The claim is notable less for being impossibly grandiose than for being more or less correct. Lynn is the intellectual godfather of what is now known as…
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Welcome to the most underwhelming Emmy race in years
“Severance” is an outie. “The White Lotus” has the no-vacancy sign up. “Andor”? RIP. “The Last of Us” is in absentia, getting ready to tee up an Abby-focused third season. Nathan Fielder is missing, probably up there somewhere, flying the friendly skies. And last year’s comedy series winner, “The Studio,” is away too, preparing to…
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Where Are America’s Ambassadors?
The United States is fighting, in some form or another, with almost everyone. America’s in a hot war with Iran and a cold war with China and Russia (even if President Trump hasn’t figured that out). Trump has ignited various trade wars, and keeps talking up a possible conflict with Cuba. And just for good…