AI at your service

May 15, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Halfway to the weekend! What do you get when you create a livestream video portal connecting New York and Dublin? In a word, chaos. In today’s big story, we’re looking at Google’s big event that’s pitching all the […]

Add your name: Reject AIPAC

This is a paid, sponsored email from Squad Victory Fund; not an endorsement or a reflection of the editorial policy of The Nation or TheNation.com. We depend on advertisers like this to help fund our independent journalism. Thank you for your support. They’re spending $100 million to silence […]

Teddy Roosevelt: Presidential pugilist

Lifestyle May 14, 2024 Teddy Roosevelt: Presidential pugilist MATT HIMES Our 26th president was the most jacked man ever to occupy the Oval Office. Teddy Roosevelt regularly took his advisors on rough, obstacle-filled hikes through the wilds of Washington, D.C., and frequently boxed at work (a habit he […]

Inside Facebook’s Free-Sperm Economy

Ask anyone who still spends significant time on Facebook what keeps them there, and you’ll likely get the same response: the groups. There are groups for venting about troubled relationships, for buying and selling used baby gear, for crowdsourcing medical advice, and, as Anya Kamenetz learned while reporting […]

Too Much of a Good Thing

Recently on The Signal: Michael Breen on why North Korea is test-launching missiles again. … Today: What’s at stake in the massive global surge of Chinese high-tech exports? Alice Han on how Beijing’s economic strategy is driving increasing political tension across the West and beyond. … Also: Rachel Cleetus […]

WNBA player A’ja Wilson says Caitlin Clark is more ‘marketable’ because she’s white — then gets signed by Nike

PM Edition May 14, 2024 TRENDING NOW Kansas City Chiefs star kicker goes scorched-earth in anti-PC graduation speech: ‘Truth is in the minority’ Blaze News investigates: Is raw milk illegal? The fight to liberate raw milk from government intolerance: ‘Food is medicine’ MORE STORIES THAT MATTER Carolla’s ‘Mr. […]

The Lighthouse: Getting Monetary Policy on Track | Arizona Shouldn’t Look to California for Housing Help | A Missed Off-Ramp for U.S. Venezuela Policy

May 14, 2024  •  Weekly Newsletter Getting Monetary Policy Back on Track Judy L. Shelton (AIER) Now comes Getting Monetary Policy Back on Track, a new collection, from the Hoover Institution, of interesting monetary thoughts. But, what about plain and simple sound money? That’s really what is needed—and […]

Ace Magashule’s crumbling Vrede

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 “Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.” Eugene Field STORY OF THE DAY Guptas’ R280-million dairy heist victims get R1,300 gift card and 5kg meat hamper By Ferial Haffajee The eastern Free State is still Ace Magashule’s empire of […]

5/14/24: Trump Dominates Biden In Swing States, Charlamagne Abandons Biden, Michael Cohen Trump Testimony, GameStop Stock Surges As Roaring Kitty Returns, Ukraine Admits War Unwinnable, Israel Torture Camps, Lindsey Graham Says Nuke Gaza

Krystal and Saagar discuss polls showing Trump dominating Biden in swing states, Charlamagne refuses to endorse Biden, Michael Cohen testifies against Trump, key GameStop meme figure returns as stock explodes, Ukraine admits war is unwinnable, report exposes Israel torture camps, Lindsey Graham calls for nuking Gaza, and meet […]

Send in the Estonians?

Send in the Estonians? Plus: Gaza’s updated child-casualty numbers, Kamala Harris being a cop, birthrate worries, and more… LIZ WOLFE Little hope left: In Ukraine, the situation is growing increasingly dire. The two-plus years of Russian invasion have depleted military resources; the $60.8 billion aid package approved by U.S. lawmakers last […]

The AI is talking

May 14, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello! Miss Teen USA is turning into the pageant no one seems to want to win. After the initial winner resigned her position, this year’s first runner-up declined to take over as queen. Here’s a timeline of all […]

Bad Painting, Folk Art and localism

Localism is an antidote to internationalist avant-gardism. But what would localist art look like? Possibly strange, wonderful and awful. Alexander Adams May 14, 2024 [Edward Lafferty, Neptune and Nymphs Astride Sea Mammals (1972), acrylic on board, 27.5” x 34.5”] Say you want to counter a trend which is […]

Israel and the Question of Genocide

“Saint Augustine argued that the goal of war is not more war, but peace,” writes Aryeh Neier in the Review’s June 6 issue. “Therefore conducting war in a manner that contributes to the restoration of peace is essential.” By tracing the history of international law from Xerxes and […]