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The GENIUS Act isn’t just a crypto giveaway — it could turn tech giants into unregulated banks.

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science

As powerful as the Large Hadron Collider is, it does have one blind spot: long-lived neutral particles that can slip through the detector before they're found. Coming up soon is an upgrade, called MATHUSLA, that hopes to change that.

The point here is not to replicate a particular historical episode, but rather to suggest the urgency of breaking with conventional thinking about what is permissible. Lethargy and pusillanimity got us into this mess in the first place.

The State Department wants to create an alarming office to expel immigrants.

A Washington woman is taking Big Oil to court over her mother’s death in a historic heatwave, opening a new front in the fight to hold polluters legally accountable for climate-fueled deaths.

The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.

The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.

Everyone wants Palestinian statehood but Israel, and Israel won't change on its own. Recognition must be a big package of policy, one with teeth and bricks alike, or it will end up like all the other failures.

Removing this toxic force from power requires both the broadest possible anti-MAGA front and a radical contingent aware of just how deep the roots of US fascism run.