The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (2014)(politico.com)

78 points by ryandrake 1 year ago | 17 comments

How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says(politico.com)

13 points by tempodox 1 year ago | 6 comments

Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court(politico.com)

44 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 10 comments

The Untold Story of How US Spies Sabotaged Soviet Technology(politico.com)

139 points by robg 2 years ago | 63 comments

Alien motherships: Pentagon official floats a theory for unexplained sightings(politico.com)

20 points by madspindel 3 years ago | 14 comments

Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban(politico.com)

31 points by RickJWagner 10 months ago | 29 comments

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review(theguardian.com)

118 points by NewJazz 16 days ago | 59 comments

Guardian analysis on an FDA proposal to expand a loophole letting some toxic, non-carcinogenic chemicals be added to food without safety review.

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal(nytimes.com)

557 points by jbegley 1 month ago | 409 comments

New York Times article on a federal judge ruling that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal; the capture shows a captcha page.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.