It’s been a puzzling period for formal expressions of patriotic nostalgia. On two separate occasions this week, the federal government publicized false quotations of iconic American presidents, fumbling attempts to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary.
The first instance came on Flag Day, when the Department of Homeland Security’s official X account misattributed the following description…
On the island of Nantucket, about a hundred miles from where John Hancock and Paul Revere are buried in Boston, it’s a tradition for the local Unitarian Universalist church to host a reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights every Fourth of July.
That won’t take place this year, on the most momentous American Independence Day in five decades.
The pastor has announced…
President Donald Trump said he loves inflation.
A new report released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the U.S.’s annual inflation rate had reached its highest levels in three years. Later, in the Oval Office, a reporter asked Trump whether the new inflation numbers concerned him. The president presented his own pathetic spin.
“No, I love it. The numbers were great. You…
Solar and storage made up a huge 91% of all new power capacity added to the US grid in Q1 2026, according to a new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie.
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AI-generated code is riddled with security flaws, yet enterprises are shipping more of it than ever before. Why? Perhaps they’re over-confident, lack true visibility into security risks, or are simply choosing to ignore the problem and hope it goes away.
It’s a dangerous game to play at the dawn of the agentic AI era, as underscored in a new report from app security company Checkmarx.
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AI-generated code is riddled with security flaws, yet enterprises are shipping more of it than ever before. Why? Perhaps they’re over-confident, lack true visibility into security risks, or are simply choosing to ignore the problem and hope it goes away.
It’s a dangerous game to play at the dawn of the agentic AI era, as underscored in a new report from app security company Checkmarx.
The…
The vibecession is back, or never really went away, or is now a “permacession.” Or so we’re told. But here’s a novel thought: What if it’s not just vibes?
For years, economists and commentators have been trying to explain why American consumer sentiment and confidence in the economy have hit record lows while many objective measures of the economy remain solid. This alleged dissonance persisted…
Mass migration is directly fuelling the youth unemployment crisis, new research has shown.
Migrants have snapped up three times as many jobs as young Britons since 2020, with 27 migrants from outside the EU hired for every British young person.
New research from the Centre for Social Justice has found non-EU youth on the UK payroll to have increased by 355 per cent from…
President Donald Trump can try to pour billions of additional dollars into the U.S. military, but restoring the country’s weapons systems will still take years.
A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies published Wednesday found that munitions depleted during Trump’s military onslaught against Iran have created a multi-year “window of vulnerability” for the United…
When Republicans allowed the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies from the Inflation Reduction Act to expire last year, most people predicted that many Americans would drop their insurance coverage because they couldn’t afford premiums without those subsidies, and that the cost of coverage would go up for everyone. A new report from KFF, the nonprofit health care news and research organization,…
In October 2005, days after Israeli forces killed a commander of the Hamas-aligned militant group Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke out unequivocally. “As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Iran’s newly elected president, referring to Ruhollah Khomeini, the late ayatollah and leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “Anybody who recognizes Israel will…
iOS 27 has big changes coming for Apple’s Camera app, with a new report saying it will be “fully customizable.” Here are the details.
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The walls appear to be closing in around President Donald Trump’s FBI director, Kash Patel.
A widening series of reports describing polygraph threats, leak investigations, paranoia over internal dissent, and escalating turmoil inside the FBI have painted a portrait of a director increasingly consumed by suspicion as damaging stories about his conduct continue spilling into public…
As record heat waves threaten workers from report sites and warehouses to farmlands and delivery routes across the country, a new report from Groundwork Collaborative, Workshop, and Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy outlines a coordinated campaign by corporations, trade groups, and their political allies to block enforceable heat protections for America’s labor force. The…
This week, Ezra Klein invited on his podcast his _Abundance_ co-author, Derek Thompson, and Marc Dunkelman, the scholar and author of _Why Nothing Works?_ , to talk about the movement their books launched. It was good timing: The shadow primary for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president is already underway, and for some, it’s a battle between the “abundance” movement—which is often…
iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are coming this fall, and a new report says they’re set to offer “some of the biggest camera hardware upgrades in the lineup’s history.”
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Earlier today, a new report said Apple’s forthcoming MacBook Pro overhaul will actually be called the MacBook Ultra. Here’s why the new Mac sounds like the exact kind of model I’ve been wanting.
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A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that the expansion of US sanctions against Cuba beginning in 2017 were likely the primary cause of a major increase in infant mortality in Cuba. The report, by Alexander Main, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot, and Guillaume Long examines the unprecedented increase in Cuba’s infant mortality rate (IMR), which soared by 148 percent…
Rumors about Apple expanding its line of ‘Ultra’ products just got more corroboration. A new report says Apple’s foldable iPhone and touchscreen MacBook Pro will be named ‘iPhone Ultra’ and ‘MacBook Ultra,’ respectively.
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OpenAI’s hardware ambitions have been no secret, but the company has long indicated it’s not making a phone. But a new report says that’s no longer the case, and an iPhone competitor from OpenAI is now in the works.
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The benefits system risks discouraging apprenticeships
Different things in life evolve at different rates. That much is inevitable, but it’s still a source of trouble. Just think of all those newspaper stories about people splashing out on flash new EV cars only to get caught short in some corner of the country where there aren’t enough chargepoints.
It’s just over a decade now since a…
President Donald Trump announced on social media on Tuesday that he was extending the ceasefire with Iran until their leaders “can come up with a unified proposal.” He did not provide a deadline, though, and it remains unclear how and when this impasse over ending the war will end. The US leader added that the US blockade of the Strait of…
New York City’s reliance on companies like Spectrum and Verizon has not delivered affordable or universal service, analysts say.
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) examines the sovereign debt trap cycle and the need for systemic reforms to the international financial architecture that perpetuates it. As of March 2026, 75 out of 119 low- and middle-income countries evaluated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and credit rating agencies were either already facing a debt crisis or are…
The world added a massive 692 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power in 2025, pushing total global capacity to 5,149 GW, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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Taylor Rehmet, a local president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, won the runoff election for the state senate in Texas.…
Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has a new report out about a powerful iOS exploit kit called "Coruna," which traveled from a surveillance vendor's customer to a Russian espionage group to Chinese cybercriminals, revealing a sophisticated exploit "supply chain" in the process.
Described as one of the most comprehensive iOS exploit toolkits to have been documented publicly, Coruna…
A new report from TransActual has delivered a stark warning that anti‑trans hatred is continuing to escalate in the UK, creating what researchers describe as an increasingly hostile and unsafe environment for trans people.
Trans Lives 2025: Continuing To Endure The Hostile Environment draws on one of the largest surveys of trans people in the country, with over 4,000 respondents taking part…
With Donald Trump’s war on Iran getting worse, a new report in _The New York Times_ reveals damning details about the runup to the decision. We learn that Trump’s case rests on lies about the “imminent threat” Iran poses, and that he publicly misrepresented his own top general’s misgivings about the invasion. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arguably misled congressional leaders, and JD Vance…
The “Forever Wars” abroad and the Global War on Terror after the September 11 attacks left behind a long trail of failure, disillusionment, and death—but they also funneled huge sums of taxpayer money to companies that supplied the equipment that made all that destruction possible. That resulted in windfalls for GOP-connected companies, and fueled a massive public-private bureaucracy that grew…