The American Dream comes down to OnlyFans, dodgeball and reality TV: Life, liberty and the pursuit of solvency take a side hustle, as seen on the small screen.
It ‘felt like a Renée Good situation,’ U.S. citizen says after ICE encounter: Video from the Virginia incident, which shows an agent with a gun, has reignited conversations about the aggressiveness of ICE enforcement.
A Wisconsin city spent millions on a grocery store. It didn’t go well.: Madison spent millions to build a supermarket across the street from another one.
Democrats abandon Senate races in deep-red states, boosting independents: Democratic Senate nominees in Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota dropped out, clearing the way for independents. But Alani Bankhead in Montana declined to join them.
The most common cancer is easy to miss. Here’s what to look for.: One 24-year-old thought her skin cancer was just an acne scar or eczema.
Shooting at VSU leaves 5 injured hours after freshmen welcome event: Police arrested a 19-year-old suspect in the shooting, which occurred around 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Virginia State University.
Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences: The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more closely resemble those from World War II. The change could cost billions.
What I learned about the American Dream from Europeans pretending to live in Ohio: The gap between America’s most powerful ideal and the reality of life in the U.S. came into focus watching a few dozen Europeans pretend to be us.
CIA had ‘low confidence’ in Iranian threat before Trump switched planes in Turkey: CIA had doubts about Israeli intelligence on a threat to Trump in Turkey that prompted an extraordinary secret flight.
Why Kansas might elect its first Democratic senator in nearly 100 years: Adam Hamilton wants to bring empathy back to Washington.
Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.: A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Convenient Truth: The Meta CEO has a new message now that his company is losing the AI race.
AOC Knows a Lemon When She Sees One: Francesca Hong’s surprise loss in Wisconsin is a blessing to the Democratic Party.
Why I Quit the Tenure Track: The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia - "Wokeness allowed elite higher ed to create a new model of inclusive exclusion: one in which tuition can continue to climb, acceptance rates can continue to plummet, endowments can continue to expand, and adjunct labor can continue to be exploited as long as the demographics of those paying the tuition and those being exploited continued to get browner, Blacker, more LGBTQAIP2+. It also helped nurture the delusion that elite college graduates were being prepared for lives of civic virtue, and that their highly priced education would be deployed in service of the public good. Never mind the fact that, during my time at Bates, roughly a quarter of the school's graduates went on to jobs in tech, finance, or consulting—a startling figure that nonetheless pales in comparison to the nearly half of Harvard and Yale students who end up in these same career tracks.
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"Sandra seemed stuck: Some minority professors supported the requirement, while others, like me, did not. In my observation, woke white academics—who are largely acculturated to defer to the 'lived experience' of their Black and brown students and colleagues—had next to no ability to make decisions when confronted with minorities who disagreed with one another. Encountering 'marginalized' people with opposing views tended to create a kind of cognitive paralysis in some of my white co-workers, and I noticed that, in such cases, they usually followed the recommendation of the most recent minority they'd spoken with about the issue. With my friends, I jokingly called this the 'last Black person I talked to' problem."
The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”
