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View More Newsfrom the you’re-simply-not-very-good-at-anything dept Bari Weiss is seeking out friendly interviewers at the New York Times to try and “calm the firestorm engulfing her leadership of CBS News.” By “leadership” of course they mean censoring stories critical of the president, letting Benjamin Netanyahu pick his own interviewer (who he knows won’t press him on war crimes), firing a bunch of industry veterans, and just generally being an unqualified, fail-upward clod. As we’ve long explored, Weiss wasn’t hired to do journalism. She was hired to do right wing agitprop. But given she’s not good at that either, CBS just saw its…
“I’m supposed to work out a settlement with myself,” President Donald Trump told reporters a few days after he sued the IRS. He wasn’t kidding: His January 29 lawsuit, which alleged damages caused by an IRS contractor’s illegal leaking of Trump’s tax returns, pitted him against an agency he oversees, represented by Justice Department lawyers who also answer to him. The result of Trump’s admitted self-dealing was not pretty. The “settlement” that the president reached with himself, which Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on May 18, included $1.8 billion in taxpayer money for purported victims of the Biden administration’s…
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A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although the True Crime genre of publishing and documentary television is replete with accounts of murderous spouses, serial killers, Mafia wars, and financial scams, rarely do the subjects transcend the headline immediacy of police procedurals to deliver the long-term import of critical analysis. The Victorian predator Jack the Ripper and the Depression-era exploits of Bonnie and Clyde are two such exceptions; a third is the countercultural carnage wrought by the Manson family. As such, Claudia Verhoeven’s new book Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History…
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New York, July 9, 2026 – Algerian authorities must immediately release freelance journalist and blogger Mourad At-Mimou and stop targeting journalists for their online…
Dr David Potter CBE, who died on 28 June aged 82, was a scientist, technologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded the pioneering technology company…
This column was originally published in the Hoosier State Press Association’s July 2026 newsletter. Many journalists seeking information from public officials are all too…
For Ethereum Institutional’s founders, becoming an independent nonprofit rather than remaining within the foundation was a deliberate choice.”The EF has always been quite vocal…
Professor Paul Finkelman has asked me to post the following guest post, and I am more than happy to do so. Prof. Finkelman is…
When Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama took office in January 2025, pledging to restore “an era of true media freedom,” journalists had reason to…
Bitcoin (BTC) holder Strategy’s (MSTR) capital trap is getting tighter, according to Ilan Solot, senior global markets strategist, at Marex Solutions, a division of…
Bitcoin (BTC) is showing a rare divergence between its falling prices and rising momentum, a setup that last appeared around the FTX-era market bottom.…
In brief JPMorgan analysts argued that Strategy could reassure anxious investors by rebuilding its cash reserves. A small Bitcoin sale triggered the company’s worst…
from the bad-faith-everywhere dept There’s hardly anyone left in the Justice Department that has any deeper desire than just giving Trump what he wants.…
Gordon Wood. (Brown University.) Media reports indicate that Brown University Professor Gordon Wood passed away at the age of 92 yesterday, apparently killed by…
The European Union’s (EU) regulatory framework has redefined the competitive landscape of Web3, unintentionally shifting the advantage away from crypto startups, directly into the…