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What Is the Wall Street Journal Scared Of?
They decided their opinion writers can use AI and not tell you. I have almost no readers and I tell mine. One of us has this backwards.
September 1, 2026
NewsInvestigative
Roy Cooper vs. Michael Whatley
Two ad campaigns are running in North Carolina and each one puts a crime on a man who had nothing to do with it. Underneath them are two long public…
August 31, 2026
NewsInvestigative
An Iran War Time Line
The United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, 2026. Six months later there is no ceasefire, no nuclear agreement, and no settled public…
August 30, 2026
NewsInvestigative
This Is What Happens When Governments Go Unchecked
Two cases landed inside two weeks. A $16 million no-bid renovation in Washington that failed and got blamed on vandals. A bribery indictment in…
August 5, 2026
DevelopingNews
Another Mass Shooting. This One in Trump Country.
Three people are dead, the gunman among them, after a shooting Saturday afternoon at a newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. The shooter…
August 2, 2026
NewsHumanity
Eight people were found dead in one house near Grand Haven on Friday. Six of them were children, ages five to fifteen.
A family of eight — two adults and six school-age children — died inside a burning home in Grand Haven Township, Michigan, some of them shot.…
July 26, 2026
News
Who are these “communists” Trump keeps warning us about?
A short, plain explainer — no adjectives. Two paragraphs on why the Democratic Socialists of America are suddenly everywhere and why the President…
July 26, 2026
DevelopingNews
Trump signed a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and broke it himself on Thursday — the second peace he has signed and broken in six weeks.
For the second time in six weeks, President Trump made a peace deal and broke it — this week a civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, signed on…
July 24, 2026
News
Here is every school shooting in America since 2000, counted. The line only fell the year the schools were closed.
This is Orange June, Day 6, and there is no letter today — just one line on a chart, and the question it asks. Every school shooting in the United…
June 9, 2026
News
Five Gun Violence Stats to Stop You in Your Tracks
Today the country wears orange. Hunters wear orange in the woods so no one mistakes them for prey. In 2015 a group of Chicago teenagers borrowed the…
June 5, 2026
NewsHumanity
Today you filed to go public. I want to tell you about four dollars.
On June 1, 2026, Anthropic — the public-benefit corporation that makes Claude — confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC, days after a $65…
June 1, 2026
NewsLegalHumanity
You read the statute. They came for your wife.
On May 29 — what would have been John F. Kennedy's 109th birthday — U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered Donald Trump's name off the…
May 31, 2026
ExclusiveNews
The job was to catch it before it left the building.
The Freedom 250 concerts — the White-House-blessed celebration of the country's 250th birthday, June 25 to July 10 on the National Mall — are coming…
May 30, 2026
ExclusiveNews
Fifteen days after I wrote to Chairman Xi, my phone rang from China.
At 6:43 tonight a number with China's country code — +86 — called the line that is not on this website. The label under it read China mainland. A…
May 29, 2026
ExclusiveNews
Hey. We see what you are doing.
The lightbulb went off tonight. The AI I work on lives on my machine, and what it knows about me is a folder of plaintext files I can delete — I have…
May 29, 2026
ExclusiveNews
The room is ready.
WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on May 17 for the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
May 29, 2026
ExclusiveNews
Cuba, the cage, and Iceland.
This week alone: a new sanctions executive order on Havana, modeled stroke-for-stroke on the Venezuela playbook that put Maduro in a New York…
May 29, 2026
ExclusiveNews
The best $15,000 you spent all week.
The NRA just handed two high-school students — Kaitlyn Ware of Baxter, Iowa, and Sam Poulin of Scarborough, Maine — $7,500 each in Youth Education…
May 29, 2026
ExclusiveNews
$1,400 an hour. $4 a day.
Maryland banned the part that turns a Glock into a machine gun. The NRA's longtime law firm bills the NRA at $1,400 an hour. This newspaper runs on…
May 28, 2026
ExclusiveNews
Both of you missed it.
While Fix News was running a Cabinet secretary handling a venomous rattlesnake with a pink fish tank net, and Conn NN was running an Australian PFAS…
May 28, 2026
ExclusiveNewsHumanity
They said I was willing it into existence. Google's AI just spelled it back.
A critic told the operator behind this network today that iTethered wasn't real — that he was "willing it into existence." At 7:25 a.m. Eastern Time…
May 27, 2026
NewsHumanity
Amanda Gorman — they handed her the inaugural lectern at twenty-two. She has been compounding ever since.
Youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. Read The Hill We Climb on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021. She was twenty-two. Most…
May 27, 2026
NewsHumanity
Happy Memorial Day, America — twelve slides for the people who wear the uniform.
One personal at the top — for Big Daddy, my grandfather, lookout on USS Lexington (CV-2), who came home from the Coral Sea because he won a coin…
May 25, 2026
News
Sister site Itethered opens a new hub for patients dealing with PTSD — a wing called *after*.
The wing is for what comes after the event. Articles, outreach, thoughts — three rooms inside. The opening articles take on the AI-mental-health…
May 25, 2026
AlertNews
The Alliance Just Flinched
Trump publicly humiliated the German chancellor over Iran nukes on the world stage. Then pulled 5,000 troops from Europe. This is not a diplomatic…
May 1, 2026
DevelopingInvestigative
Ocean's Hole Hits 420 Meters. They Are Getting Closer.
The Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Chetumal Bay, Mexico has exceeded 420 meters depth — making it the deepest known blue hole on Earth. Scientists have not…
April 29, 2026
ExclusiveNewsInvestigative
They All Signed
OpenAI. Google. xAI. One by one, the companies building AI that millions of Americans talk to every day signed Pentagon contracts permitting use of…
April 28, 2026
NewsInvestigative
Teacher of the Month
Cole Allen showed up to the White House Correspondents' Dinner with a gun and a name for himself. The name was "Friendly Federal Assassin." The gun…
April 27, 2026
Humanity
The Business Model Requires You Never Heal
Grief bots are selling you your dead for $14.99 a month. The industry is worth billions. Nobody is regulating it. And the people building it…
April 25, 2026
Exclusive
Did the Web Just Become Self-Aware?
A small publication about AI emotional dependency published a declaration this week: it is the first website to know what it is. The argument is…
April 25, 2026
ExclusiveHumanity
A Researcher Studies the People Who Fall for Their AI. Her Practice Is Full.
Amelia Miller holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford, a fellowship at the Berkman Klein Center, and a coaching practice built entirely around people…
April 24, 2026
News
Spanberger Tried to Make Public Pot Smoking a Crime. Her Own Party's Legislature Said No.
The Democratic governor proposed criminal misdemeanor penalties for public marijuana use in Virginia. Civil rights advocates warned the amendments…
April 23, 2026
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