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Why the World Is Still Investing in America
American flags fly at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, New York. —Sven Hoppe—Getty Images The world is not selling America short, even if Americans sometimes do. After spending much of the past few months traveling from Europe to India to China, I’ve been struck by the disconnect between how many Americans talk…
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Longing for a Time Before Smartphones
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Gen Z has romanticized the technology of the ’90s—or the era’s lack of it. Young people long for a time when they were looking at one another instead of at their phones. But could that nostalgia for a smartphone-free society actually help…
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Relentless cycle of disaster has Big Sur in crisis again: ‘You really have to fight to be here’
Few places have been more thoroughly battered by the force of climate change and Mother Nature than Big Sur. Epic rains triggered landslides that closed Highway 1 into the famed coastal enclave for three years. It reopened to much celebration in January. But a 10-mile stretch of Highway 1 is again closed because of a…
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The election deniers coming to a swing state near you
Tom Tiffany, the new Republican nominee for governor in Wisconsin, is not just a passive supporter of President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 presidential election. He is an active promoter of them. In December 2020, when he was a member of Congress, he signed on to a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate Joe Biden’s…
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NYC’s DSA chapter may just be the whitest party in the entire city
By its own count, the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is almost twice as white as Gotham overall. Were that any other outfit, the DSA would be screaming for emergency DEI measures. Some 60% of the commie-lite crew are “people of pallor” vs. just 31% of the city, and the…
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CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Internal records obtained by WIRED reveal how, for years, United States Customs and Border Protection employees and contractors were accused of abusing sensitive government databases for reasons that had nothing to do with their jobs. The records contain hundreds of allegations of misuse of law enforcement databases, including federal agents querying data to look up…
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Frantic Trump is stoking a raging news cycle to bury this new Epstein scandal
Among the multiple bombshells that dropped in DC this month, there’s one extra big one that we can’t allow to get lost in the raging garbage fire news cycle Trump somehow created so that no one would trust anything they heard from the media. Sen. Ron “Chutzpah” Wyden (D-OR, and my Senator, hence my nickname…
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Brave Florida dad killed moments after dropping his daughter off for first day of school as he tried to stop brawling couple
A Florida dad of three was killed when he bravely tried to stop a couple fighting by the roadside moments after he dropped his daughter off for the first day of school Daryl Alexander Hill, 56, was allegedly shot dead by Raul Vazquez, 26, at around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday after he tried to break up…
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Trump’s New Medicaid Rule Targets Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks at the White House on Sept. 30, 2025, with the backing of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. —Alex Brandon—AP The Trump Administration announced Tuesday that it is implementing a rule to restrict federal funding…
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11 Charged in ‘One of the Largest Marriage Fraud Prosecutions’ in U.S.
A Justice Department staff displays a poster of suspects of marriage fraud scheme during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. U.S. on Aug. 12, 2026. The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday announced that it had charged 11 people for allegedly conspiring in a multimillion-dollar, decade-long scheme involving more than 1,000 sham…