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Republicans in ‘messy’ war with each other over gay marriage again
A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the issue is splitting the Republican Party in public. The latest flashpoint came when Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) posted that “homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month,” referencing a Tennessee resolution signed by Gov. Bill Lee that defines a family as one…
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The Story I Went Searching For—and the One That Found Me
Angela the (aquatic) astronaut. Turning around to wave one final goodbye with an endless horizon before her. —Debra Madsen When I set out to make Row Of Life, my first feature documentary, I never imagined it would become what it did. I thought I was signing up to make a film about one woman’s conviction…
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The Most Confusing Jacket in America
Nothing about the Palantir chore coat makes any sense. Mine is a size small, though it’s so oversize that I look like a teen wearing a hand-me-down. Then there’s the color: a piercing blue that’s nearing the shade of an iMessage bubble. The jacket is also the most comfortable and practical garment I own. It’s…
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Puncturing the myth of Alan Greenspan, whose policies gave us the Great Recession
Noah Cross, the archvillain of the movie “Chinatown,” had the definitive line on how old age brings respectability. “‘Course I’m respectable,” he tells Jake Gittes. “I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” I wouldn’t necessarily slot former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan into any of those categories,…
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‘Watch out for angry moms’: MAHA leaders threaten Trump over cancer betrayal
The Make America Healthy Again movement that helped sweep Donald Trump back into the White House is fracturing over his betrayal on pesticides — and MAHA activists are now threatening to stay away from Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. According to a report from MS NOW’s Arielle Hixson, the Trump administration’s decision to back…
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Missing Chicago couple found dead outside Mexico City, family confirms
A missing Chicago couple were among a number of bodies found last week on the outskirts of Mexico City, their family confirmed on Wednesday. US citizen Zafar Padamese Mawani and his partner Guillermo Jafett Hidalgo Ortiz had gone missing in May south of the Mexican capital. Authorities had been searching for the men, who had moved from…
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New details about ‘The Wire’ alum Bobby J. Brown’s cause of death revealed after tragic barn fire
New details about Bobby J. Brown’s cause of death have come to light, four months after he died in a tragic barn fire. The “Wire” alum, who died at 62 in February of diffuse thermal injury and smoke inhalation, “had been consuming alcoholic beverages prior to death,” according to the autopsy and toxicology report obtained…
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Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center
Daniel Gonzalez woke up early on March 14 in Abilene, Texas to drop off a concrete box full of electrical components at one of the city’s two Stargate data centers. The 49-year-old truck driver says that when he pulled up to the site that Saturday morning, he was told by another worker that it was…
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The 10,000-Year Flood
Photographs by Tamir Kalifa David and Cheryl Chambers bought their property along the Guadalupe River in 2008, the day the for-sale sign went up. They kept it wild and green, a private retreat in the Texas Hill Country where they could lounge in the bed of a pickup and watch the birds and the deer,…
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World Cup Teams Are in a Race for AI Dominance
The sheer scale of data being recorded at this summer’s World Cup is unprecedented. FIFA, the tournament organiser, will track around 150 million data points per match. Inside the ball alone, sensors monitoring IMUs (Inertial Measurement Units) will log 500 movements per second to trace the ball’s motion. If that sounds excessive, Patrick Lucey can…