The pros and cons of ending cash bail

Peter  Weber The surprisingly heated fight over what makes ‘milk’ milk Brendan  Morrow The Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash trial’s 8 strangest moments, from Taylor Swift to King Kong Rafi  Schwartz Is Trump really changing his campaign style? Advertisement from Wisebread Best Rewards Card of 2023 With $200 Bonus […]

3/30/23: Trump Jury Disbands For 1 Month, Kremlin Detains US Reporter, US Blocks Nordstream Investigaiton, Tucker/Ilhan Blast Tik Tok Bill, Jamie Dimon To Testify in Epstein Case, Credit Suisse Fraud, Elon Loses 20 Billion On Twitter, Blackstone Steals Homes, Assault Weapons Ban, Starbucks Worker on CEO Lies

Krystal and Saagar discuss the Trump Grand Jury disbanding for 1 Month, Republican voters shredding “Weak” Mike Pence, Trump mocks Desantis over Disney battle, a US Wall Street Journal reporter is detained in Kremlin on accusations of “spying”, US blocks a Nordstream investigation by the UN, Zelensky invites […]

Gen Z’s new slang

March 30, 2023 Hello, Insiders! Matt Turner, editor in chief for business, here with an eye-popping stat to start the day: the most vulnerable US banks have seen around $1 trillion in deposit outflows since the Fed started hiking rates last year, per JPMorgan. Around half of that […]

The Carousel of Grief

Our April 20 issue—the London Book Fair Issue—is online now, with Cathleen Schine on Maxine Hong Kingston’s talking-stories, Jameel Jaffer on the “ethical train wreck” at the Office of Legal Counsel, Rumaan Alam on Namwali Serpell, Geoffrey O’Brien remembers Joe Brainard, Michelle Nijhuis on swamps and bogs, E. Tammy Kim on the legend of Harry […]

Fox Hosts Have HEATED Gun Debate

Do we really have to say this? Psychiatrists are under NO obligation to report when someone is under care for mental illness UNLESS there is a direct threat against identifiable victim(s). If we make psychiatrists report the suspicion of dangerousness, people who need to go to therapy wouldn’t, […]

For Smarter Robots, Just Add Humans

For Smarter Robots, Just Add Humans Will Knight Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks. But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work. READ The 44 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now Wired From “The Legend of Korra” to “Wednesday,” […]

3/29/23: Chris Christie Insists He Can Beat Trump, Is TikTok Ban A New Patriot Act, Steven Donzinger Denied By Supreme Court, SBF Caught Bribing China, Serial Podcast Murder Conviction Reopened, Stephanie Ruhle’s Media Grifts, Elon Musk Indian Gov Censorship, Ebola Lab Leak

Ryan and Emily discuss Chris Christie insisting he can beat Trump in 2024, Jon Stewart denies Trump arrest will make him a martyr, is the Tik Tok ban in congress “The Restrict Act” looking like the new Patriot Act, the Supreme Court declining to hear Steven Donzinger’s challenge […]

Israel on the brink

Kelli María Korducki Senior Editor On Sunday, news broke that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had abruptly fired the country’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, after Gallant pleaded for a delay in the judiciary-overhaul plan put forward by Netanyahu’s government. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis rolled out of bed […]

Wall Street sharks eye ‘dumb’ banks

March 29, 2023 Hello, Insiders. I’m Jennifer H. Cunningham, the editor in chief of the news division. All eyes remain on former President Trump’s possible criminal indictment; we’re monitoring the parade of witnesses testifying in front of the Grand Jury and learning why an indictment may have already […]

The Answer to the Culture War

Mark Hampton | March 27th, 2023 Center for a Stateless Society The drama of the so-called “culture wars” picked up recently with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for a “national divorce” over supposed entrenched cultural issues. Setting aside how this would be a terrible deal for red states, […]

How To Fight Big Tech Censorship

Michael Shellenberger 4 hr ago The author (right) with Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya (center) and Babylon Bee founder, Seth Dillon (right). All three were censored by Big Tech Internet companies, and testified to Congress about their experience today. I was honored to once again testify before Congress today […]

The Lighthouse: Haunted Financial Markets | Spending Straitjackets | Trump’s Lockdown

March 28, 2023  •  Weekly Newsletter The Fed’s Policies Haunt Financial Markets Judy L. Shelton (Wall Street Journal) Inadequate supply, relative to massive spending-induced demand, spurred the inflation we have now. But why is Chairman Powell’s destruction of that demand through ‘emergency’ interest-rate hikes the answer? What about […]