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Mocking Elected Officials Is a Sign of a Healthy Democracy

Thin-skinned MAGA can dish it out, but can't take mockery.

Reason · Aug 8, 2025

Trump poised to meet Putin to discuss Ukraine – but Zelensky set to be left on the sidelines

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The Conversation · Aug 7, 2025

Gaza isn’t the first time US officials have downplayed atrocities by American-backed regimes – genocide scholars found similar strategies used from East Timor to Guatemala to Yemen

Since World War II, the United States has repeatedly supported governments that have been committing mass atrocities, which are defined by genocide scholar Scott Straus as “large-scale, systematic violence against civilian populations.”

The Conversation · Aug 7, 2025

Dennis Quaid living in ‘paradise’ every day with fourth wife Lauria Savoie, calls it the relationship he never had

He’s not completely out of touch with how people might perceive the 39-year age gap.

We Got This Covered · Jul 29, 2025

Space Force's Golden Dome chief says space-based missile interceptors are possible today. 'We have proven every element of the physics'

The head of the Trump administration's Golden Dome program says the technologies needed to create such an ambitious space-based missile defense system already exist.

Space · Jul 23, 2025

Congress has a chequered history of overseeing US intelligence and national security

Tonya Ugoretz, a top FBI intelligence analyst, was placed on administrative leave in June. The FBI has not said why. But the decision came around the time she refused to endorse what was reportedly a thinly sourced report accusing China of interfering in the 2020 US presidential election in favour…

The Conversation · Jul 23, 2025

Emil Bove’s appeals court nomination echoes earlier controversies, but with a key difference

President Donald Trump’s nomination of his former criminal defense attorney, Emil Bove, to be a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, has been mired in controversy.

The Conversation · Jul 21, 2025

Could Rupert Murdoch bring down Donald Trump? A court case threatens more than just their relationship

If Rupert Murdoch becomes a white knight standing up to a rampantly bullying US president, the world has moved into the upside-down.

The Conversation · Jul 21, 2025

Top economist Mohamed El-Erian says Trump's in a 'question mark' moment—and it could go the way of Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter

"It's a 50-50," the chief economist of Allianz said on Yahoo Finance's Morning Brief, adding this is something you usually see in developing countries.

Fortune · Jul 15, 2025

Donald Trump, The Transformational President

The New York Times admits that Trump is going further than Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and Taft "might have imagined possible"

Reason · Jul 13, 2025