1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (188+ words) A self-described “history nerd” whose “happy place” is inside library archives, Westervelt opens her narrative by recounting how the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s U.S. trade association, came into being. Collective amnesia about deteriorating conditions is also seen…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (166+ words) After Canada’s reciprocal tariffs kicked in this week, Donald Trump spiraled on social media. He posted a deranged map suggesting he wants to annex all of Canada. He posted a demented visual of himself domineering over Canada’s prime minister. And…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (211+ words) Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of angry, unhinged threats over the last few days. He posted a map of all of North America—including Canada and Mexico—under conquest by the United States. He angrily threatened to cut off all…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1479+ words) The Trump administration is moving to strip a rule barring private equity officials from engaging in “pay-to-play” schemes with government officials. The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to revoke Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act, arguing that it chills…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1418+ words) On this cusp of Labor Day, when election campaigns kick into fourth gear, I don’t want to jinx anything, but I have to say it: The voters are going to barber-strap Donald Trump in the November midterms. The first is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (606+ words) Darline Graham, who just sashayed into the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, likes to tell a story about her parents. They both passed away fairly suddenly—her mother of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and her father of a heart…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1118+ words) In December 1915, Jacob Schiff sent an irritated letter to Walter Lippmann. Among the country’s most powerful financiers, Schiff was head of the elite banking house Kuhn, Loeb & Co. That perch afforded him the opportunity to be a dominant force in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1540+ words) Kamala Harris has been flexing her political power in the South this year, most recently with her general election endorsement of a long-shot House candidate in Arkansas, raising the question of whether the former vice president’s goal is to rack…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1308+ words) GOP Senate nominee Darline Graham accidentally shared a horrifying anecdotal indictment of the U.S. health care system while attacking “government-run health care,” describing how her parents were forced to work while sick until they died and left her orphaned at 12, along…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1430+ words) Twelve Democratic attorneys general, including California’s Rob Bonta, filed a lawsuit last month to block the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. by Paramount Skydance Corporation. Trying to force Bonta and the other attorneys general to drop the lawsuit, Paramount…...