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Where Has All the Testosterone Gone?
The Trump administration seems to harbor a hulking obsession with testosterone. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once claimed that the president’s testosterone levels are unusually high for a man of his age, and Kennedy is known to take a supplementary dose of the male sex hormone himself. In April, the FDA moved to expand…
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How letting Dudamel be Dudamel led to unpredictable, wonderful L.A. music
In early April 2007, I was invited to a surreptitious dinner with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra’s president, Deborah Borda. We gathered in Salonen’s kitchen and over take-out sushi discussed how in three days, Easter Sunday, the Los Angeles Times would be the first to tell the world that…
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Francesca Hong lost. Here’s what it means for progressives.
It turns out there is a limit to how far left Democrats are willing to go with a crucial swing state on the line. Francesca Hong ran up against that wall on Tuesday, falling short in her race against Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin. He’ll go up against…
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Trump huddled ex-caddy and ‘human printer’ on secret flight – ditched cabinet officials
President Donald Trump huddled his ex-caddy and his “human printer” aboard a secret flight out of Turkey but left top Cabinet officials and the press corps to fly home on Air Force One — despite an assassination threat targeting him, according to a new report. The 80-year-old president was captured by television cameras boarding Air…
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Best of Babylon Bee: WNBA’s bigotry exposed as they refuse to allow stunning, beautiful woman into league
Every week, The Post will bring you our picks of the best one-liners and stories from satirical site the Babylon Bee to take the edge off Hump Day. Want more of a chuckle? Be sure to click the links. Babylon Bee “I have not stopped crying for 78 hours straight,” said activist Starlight MacIntosh. “The…
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An AI Tax Could Be the Great Equalizer America Needs
—Alfieri—Getty Images An idea that until recently would have been seen as radical—that the public should co-own AI—now commands bipartisan consensus. In June, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the first AI tax in history, the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which took up our AI equity tax framework. The bill proposes making the biggest AI…
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Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
Rafael Yuste is in his early sixties and bears a more than passing resemblance to Pablo Picasso—if Picasso had worn glasses and had a trim white goatee. Speaking succinctly and methodically, his accent rich with Spanish inflections, he told me about an experiment he had carried out in his lab at Columbia on the brains…
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Paul W. Downs fought for Megan Stalter to have pay parity on ‘Hacks’: ‘I don’t want to be paid more’
In 2021, when HBO Max’s “Hacks” first introduced us to fading Vegas comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), we briefly met Vance’s hyper-devoted young talent manager Jimmy LuSaque Jr. (Paul W. Downs) and Kayla Schaeffer (Megan Stalter), the braying, inept assistant foisted upon him. Over the years this turbulent pairing found its groove, opening their own…
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‘Dark’ discrepancies in Trump health reports exposed by Dick Cheney’s doctor
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s doctor urged Congress to take action as he rang alarm bells about a host troubling discrepancies in President Donald Trump’s health reports. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a George Washington University professor and Cheney’s cardiologist for 27 years, urged Congress to form a commission under the 25th Amendment to study the true…
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The Job Interview Tattoo Guy Everyone Got Mad at Finally Explains Himself
Jordan Zietz wants to be clear: He has never, and will never, force anyone to tattoo his startup’s logo on their body. The 24-year-old briefly became the internet’s most hated person after LemonLime, his AI-for-small-business startup, hosted a party following Y Combinator’s Startup School in late July. In a LinkedIn post, Zietz wrote that he…