Social Security Cuts Needed, GOP Rep. Says: ‘Have to Have the Stomach.’ We all knew that was coming.

Hunter’s pardon isn’t the issue. What matters are pardons for everyone else.

Manufacturing is a war now. And the democracies are losing.

What is the point of polling? Voters want precision — unfortunately, political surveys can’t deliver it.

2025 could be the year of ‘revenge quitting.’ Doubt it.

Everybody Should Get Used to these Mortgage Rates, Says Fannie Mae CEO: Mortgage Rates, 10-Year Treasury Yields, QT, and Spreads.

Could Primordial Black Holes Be Hiding in Plain Sight?

Failure Costs. An Answer to the FT’s Trillion Dollar Question.

‘My So-Called Life’ at 30: How a short-lived show became a ’90s pop culture touchstone.

They don’t make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard.

Idaho Will Enforce Abortion Travel Ban.

30,000 Ukrainian Attack Drones To Hammer Russian Strategic Targets. Good.

Governments Should Be Effective, Not Efficient.

Lead in gasoline tied to over 150 million excess cases of mental health disorders, study suggests.

As hurricane season ends, researchers take stock of unexpected pattern.

Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life despite strict contamination control.

Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks.

Vaccines Will Have to Prove Themselves Again. The Hard Way. Yep. When 100,000+ kids start dying of preventable diseases a year, people will stat vaccinating again.

China Tensions Prompt U.S. Navy Race to Reload Missiles at Sea.

China Is Studying Russia’s Sanctions Evasion to Prepare for Taiwan Conflict.

The Great Grocery Squeeze.

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time.

The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown.

The Dating Cultural Norm That’s Making Everyone Unhappy. American women have standards that nearly no men can meet, and mental illness from social media.

Yes, It ‘Looks Like a Duck,’ but Carriers Like the New Mail Truck.

A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History.

How Honeycrisp Apples Went From Marvel to Mediocre.

Why microservices might be finished as monoliths return with a vengeance. For 99.8% of companies, a microservice architecture is actively harmful.

The deterioration of Google.

Footprints show two species of ancient human relatives shared the same ground at the same time.

China’s Wacky And Puzzling New Aircraft Carrier Has Set Sail.

Monitor-eating office cat.

Resist the enclosure of the human psyche.

In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse.

Baby-boomer homeowners got rich from skyrocketing house prices. Now they can’t find retirement housing. Wah.

The Second Gilded Age: the Revenge of the New Robber Barons.

Why Kamala Harris lost: Around the world, incumbents are in trouble.

The Local Sheriffs Gearing Up to Help Trump Carry Out Mass Deportations.

This Is What the World’s First All-EV Car Market Looks Like.

In First Postelection Interview, Kamala Harris’s Advisers Admit That Democrats Are “Losing the Culture War.”

Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red. As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling and its quality is getting worse.

Inflation Re-Accelerates Despite Plunging Gasoline Prices as “Core Services” PCE Price Index Hits 7-Month High.

Americans Buy Ever Bigger, More Powerful, More Fuel-Efficient Trucks, SUVs & Cars. EVs Escalate the Horsepower War.

US grocery workers hit by rising prices: ‘We’re at the bottom of the food chain.’

Trump’s Tariffs In His First Term Did Little To Alter Economy — But This Time May Be Different.

How the 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class.

Dr. Oz and the Stealth Destruction of Medicare.

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus. Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state. Any reason is the right reason to flee Texas.

Cars Are About to Get Even More Expensive Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs.

A firsthand account of homelessness in America.

Bluesky boom worries Chinese media.

The mind-bending new science of measuring time.

LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows.

What fossilized dino feces can tell us about their rise to dominance.

Target’s Slide From Cheap Chic to Dull Chore.

How Shanghai’s ambition to be the ‘future of finance’ fell apart.

Can Europe defend itself without America? Nope.

How Southwest Airlines Lost Its Groove.

Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think.

At least five interesting things: The new conservative era.

AI PCs make users less productive.

Basic Science Is The Foundation Of Future Cures.

List of common misconceptions.

Europe is already facing its next energy crisis.

Walmart becomes latest — and biggest — company to roll back its DEI policies.

Who is really escalating the war in Ukraine? It certainly isn’t the west.

Employee monitoring software has gone off the deep end with AI.

China Wiretaps Americans in ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History.’

‘I Don’t Know Where to Turn or What to Do.’ His $763,094 Retirement Fund Is in Limbo. Do the stupid and then the stupid does you.

Trump’s dictatorship is a fait accompli.

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of millions of years ago.

Ukraine is being hit with a surge of attacks using North Korean missiles. Western components help make it possible.

Homes “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American.

China is laying the legal groundwork to seize Taiwan. And military. Probably happen ~2027.

Imagine you’re just starting your life. You’re in your 20s, late 90s baby like me. You’re single and no kids, and you rent a one-bedroom studio apartment. Or maybe you live with parents still. Nothing crazy, just the bare minimum to survive. Let’s break down your monthly living expenses.

Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study.

An ad giant wants to run your next TV’s operating system. Oh hell no.

World War III has officially begun, Ukraine’s ex-top general says. Correct.

My Landlord Learns The Importance of Keeping Your Word – and I Learn Not To Renovate a Rental Condo.

Taiwan must hold out one month if China invades: U.S. war game.

Helping America’s hawks get inside the head of Xi Jinping. China’s leader is a risk-taker. How far will he go in confronting America?

I lost one friend, not a good one or anything, just dudes (Russian) I played with from 2019-2022.

Lots of Republicans suddenly think the economy wasn’t that bad after all.

Trump’s mass deportations would bring economic disaster.

Trump’s Nominees Are Being Hand-Picked to Enact a Dangerous Platform the Koch Brothers Made Public 44 Years Ago.

Fly The Unfriendly Skies.

Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds.

Why everyone missed solar’s exponential growth. Who is “everyone,” motherfucker?

Pulsar Planets.

Miscarrying patient was passed around ‘like a hot potato’ due to Idaho abortion ban, doctor testifies. Abortion bans don’t stop abortions and only hurt women. Clownish.

Trump voters f-cked around—now they’re about to find out.

NATO’s Tech Scouts Are Fortifying Europe for a World With Donald Trump.

Republicans suddenly think the economy’s great and the election wasn’t rigged. LOL.

The corporate exodus from China is gaining momentum, study says.

Trump’s economic agenda faces a big potential foe: The bond vigilantes.

Once dominant, Germany is now desperate.

The truth about bike lanes: They’re not about the bikes.

Meta removes 2 million accounts related to ‘pig-butchering’ scams.

Trump Thinks Putin Is His Friend. The Russians Just Issued a Humiliating Statement to the Contrary.

Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor Posture.

Employees are spending the equivalent of a month’s groceries on the return-to-office–and growing more resentful than ever, survey finds.

What drove Asian and Hispanic voters to the right in 2024.

Resentment is building as more workers feel stuck.

How Britain squandered the best hand in the world.

China’s Soaring Emissions Are Upending Climate Politics.

Conflicts “Eating Into” Critical Munitions Stockpiles Needed For China Fight Top U.S. Officer In Pacific Warns.

How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment.

Five Ways R.F.K. Jr. Could Undermine Lifesaving Childhood Vaccines.

Information Corrosion. The destructive threat of AI search.

Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence.

This $8,000 Suzuki From India Received A 5-Star Crash Test Rating.

‘Achilles heel’ of antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered in life-saving breakthrough.

Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets.

Trump’s demolition of the US state.

First Stand-In Attack Missile Delivered To USAF.

The Three Pillars of the Bro-Economy.

Tech jobs are mired in a recession.

Harm to women is perceived as more severe and unacceptable than identical harm to men.

A chief characteristic of our contemporary dating discourse is that we take it—and by extension, ourselves—much, much too seriously. Agreed. One of the reasons I said “yes” to any and every date is to see what sort of crazy shit would transpire.

We must think about the resiliency of an economy before the crisis.

A Tiny Gladiator Uncovered in England Tells of the Reach of Roman Celebrity.

It was back then, in early 2014, that Russians started with contradictory ideas. To people with left-wing ideas, they spread the idea that Ukrainians were somehow Nazis. To people with right-wing ideas, they spread the idea that Ukraine was the forefront of a gay takeover of civilization.

Why Big Oil Doesn’t Mind Big Regulation.

How Democrats Blew It on Inflation.

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say.

It hit me how absurdly dystopian life in the UK has devolved to when my significant other had to have “the talk” with me.

Florida Faces Exodus as Residents Declare Insurance Crisis Final Straw.

Trump’s attack on the enemy within will delight America’s real foes.

Stealth firing or ethical dismissal? Why employers terminate staff for minor offences.