Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

Kenneth Feinberg doled out $7 billion to 5,300 victims’ families. The trick, he told Joe Nocera, was listening to the heartache.

Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

A recording from The Bulwark's live video

Outrage continues over the Uvalde massacre of last Tuesday, May 24, in which 21 people were killed and 17 wounded.

The Trump Department of Justice has done it again.

So far.

The law is clear, says law professor and Zeteo contributor Kim Wehle. The president would need to prove “actual malice” on the part of the comedian... plus comedy is protected by the First Amendment.

The must-see interview that made the former president’s son say: ‘I brought this on myself.’

Why I left to help launch a vibrant, new, independent media outlet

Young voices speak out for democracy, AI gets involved in the Paramount merger, Gloria Steinem’s radical storytelling, football season is upon us, cowboy cookies, and Angie Nixon on the Pod

A brain is a terrible thing to have eaten

America’s word is as good as gold — that is, unreliable

"Florida should be on the table,” Zelenskyy said. “With Florida, you have cards.”

The vice president also downgraded World War 1 to "a tussle, at best."

All the numbers for Trump vs. Harris.

Missouri’s new old map has diminished Republicans’ redistricting gains.

Friends,

Hint: It’s not jobs

Unless you’ve practiced in Big Law, they’re probably just names: Perkins Coie, Covington and Burling, Paul Weiss.

If you’ve read my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy, you’re familiar with the basic idea.

Reclaiming some time, from a House hearing on free speech

Narrated Version | Liberalism has morphed into its opposite.

A recording from Adam Kinzinger's live video

Top Stories for September 4, 2026.

There's a neglected dimension beyond gender in America's troubled youth

Some personal news from Matt

We must take back the press for the American people

Recalls are on the rise, while food inspections are at record lows

When “the joy of the Lord” comes wrapped in cruelty

Their floral dresses and butter-churning content soothe and enrage us all at once

In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged President Trump to attack Iran.

On Monday, Popular Information revealed that Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, who President Trump nominated to permanently head the department, took multiple trips to China in 2015 as an attorney where he pitched Chinese nationals on investment projects in Florida.

If not now, when?

Kyiv should be an inspiration for all of us. Trump doesn't get it.

At 9:23 this morning, the White House abruptly dismissed the press traveling with the president of the United States while he was away for the weekend at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. With the cameras now gone, just three hours later at 12:32 p.m., Donald Trump would share the first of 42 posts on Truth Social in a span of less than 3 hours and 15 minutes. The president's public meltdown began when he posted his disappointment with one of his appointees, “I don’t know what she was thinking?” before he jumped straight into more delusional and dangerous images. Among the flood of posts, he shared an AI-generated image of himself kissing Jesus on a golden crucifix. He shared a "TRUMP 2028" campaign poster, a fake image of himself walking beside a handcuffed alien on a military base, and a renewed threat to invade Greenland. He didn’t stop there.

Just after 8:00 this morning, while I was still in my pajamas and working on my computer, I heard a crashing sound and men screaming right outside my bedroom window. I struggled to understand exactly what they were saying, making out only that they were demanding that someone “come out immediately,” followed by threats about what would happen if they didn’t. Before I could even process what they were saying, my daughter came running into my room absolutely terrified, telling me there were men with guns surrounding our house.

Thank you Cat, BC, Independent Voter 1, Mike Harkreader, BLONDELEGALLY 🙋🏼‍♀️🧩🔍⚖️✨, and many others for tuning into my video.

PLUS: Carney-mania! The “campaign” expands

Yes. Let me break it down for you.

The vice president came off as evasive, dismissive and humorless. Definitely not ready for prime time.

Vivian Jenna Wilson's response comes after Musk shared her deadname with the world in an interview with Jordan Peterson.

True to form, the anti-trans craze proved once again that it comes for all women, eventually. Trone Garriott’s decision to align herself with hate did not save her.

How painfully, cringingly super-woke must a comedian get to stay relevant?

In this 2022 pod, a post-liberal feminist shares a polemic against casual sex, porn, BDSM, dating apps, and prostitution. Listen now on the Dishcast.

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What will be your posture in a second Trump era? Resistance? Retreating into the local? Returning to your craft?

And I want you to be the first to see the trailer