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“Most Openly Corrupt Regime in American History” Gets Even More Corrupt (and Somehow, Tackier)
LATE LAST YEAR, historian Rutger Bregman called the second Trump administration the “most openly corrupt regime in American history” in a lecture on the BBC. Under pressure from the White House, the BBC cut the line from the aired speech an...
What Witkoff and Kushner Didn’t Learn in Ukraine
Witkoff, Zelenskyy, and Kushner in Kyiv on September 6, 2026. Don’t they look thrilled? Photo: President of Ukraine.
LAST WEEK, Steve Witkoff went to Moscow for the eighth time, where he raved to Vladimir Putin that his trips to the countr...
When “Virtual” Abuse Has Real Victims
Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash.
(TW: Descriptions and discussion of child sexual abuse.)
JANE DOE WAS FIRST ABUSED when she was a preschooler. An adult male “repeatedly raped and sexually exploited” her, filmed it, and distributed t...
Government By and For the Trolls
Photo of Sarah Rogers courtesy of the State Department. Still of trolls from Ideastream Public Media video.
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE’S MISSION is “to protect and promote U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values and shape an int...
I Was Fooled by an AI Labrador Dad
A selection of IronPaws network dog dads.
I scroll Instagram like I have midnight snacks: furtively, trying not to disturb the others in my household. The sound is off, the glow of my screen directed away from my husband as I scroll in be...
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I study the worst of the Internet and teach you how to avoid it. Demonized by the American right. Banned by Putin’s Russia. Undeterred.
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