Friday

May 30, 2025

How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

By Thom Hartmann

Sponsored by Environment America

At Trader Joe’s, bags of carrots, bunches of broccoli, and tubs of mushrooms are shrink-wrapped in plastic. These thin plastic films are nearly impossible to recycle.

When it enters our environment, plastic waste kills millions of animals every year.

The definition of the "traditional family" has broadened considerably over the past few decades. But policymakers keep trying to fit their ideas to a tradition that no longer exists.

By Susan Milligan

It’s also a rollicking not-quite thriller about family, financing, and (broadly) filmmaking itself.

By Adam Nayman

Last year, Trump won praise for building a new GOP. But the Big, Beautiful Bill utterly shatters the illusion that he is some sort of brilliant policy innovator.

By E.J. Dionne Jr.

Undoubtedly, Donald Trump is a threat to American democracy; but the bigger threat is the obscene wealth gap that allowed his rise. This event on Tuesday, June 24 will build on our special reporting and polling about the concentration of wealth in America.

Sources close to Elon Musk say his drug use was so bad it affected his bladder.

By Malcolm Ferguson

Donald Trump tore into Leonard Leo, who recommended several of Trump’s Supreme Court picks.

By Edith Olmsted

As Trump’s MAGA-friendly advisers rage over a harsh ruling against his tariffs, a lawyer for the challengers explains how it exposed deep weaknesses in their legal justification—and what will happen now.

By The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

Sponsored by The DSR Network

There are strange things afoot in DC this week. From flip-flopping tariffs to alleged illicit relations in Trump’s inner circle, what the hell is going on in our nation’s capital? The Daily Beast’s David Gardner and Rosa Brooks join David Rothkopf to try and get to the bottom of all this and more. 

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