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"I find myself buying a lot of unnecessary things": TikTok algorithm has changed "the shopping game"
Gone are the days of receiving a mail-order catalog and circling the items you wished to buy with a bright red Sharpie. Even scrolling through a retailer's website to see what’s in stock seems outdated. After all, if you can purchase an item in two clicks through a video on TikTok, why would you go through all that work?
Trump pledges authoritarian crackdown, saying enemies to be prosecuted at levels "never seen before"
Former President Donald Trump is promising to carry out what he described as an unprecedented crackdown on his political enemies should he win the 2024 election, saying that after his victory there will be a wave of arrests and prosecutions at a level "never seen before in our Country." The...
Justice delayed is political: Trump’s election interference case must continue ahead of the election
The Supreme Court conservative majority’s opinion in Trump v. United States has rightly drawn considerable criticism. Its conclusion that former presidents enjoy presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts committed during their presidency is flabbergasting. As legal scholars across the ideological spectrum have explained, this immunity finds no support in the Constitution’s text and history, or the Supreme Court’s own precedent. A blistering dissent by Justice Sotomayor (joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson) exposes this rootlessness and expresses “fear for our democracy.”
JFK v. Nixon set the debate stage for Harris v. Trump
When Joe Biden repeatedly stammered, slurred, babbled and stared off into space during the first 2024 presidential debate, America's 46th president made history in a way he never intended. Because of his abysmal performance, June 27, 2024 will be remembered as the date when a failed debate set in motion a chain of events culminating in a sitting president withdrawing his reelection campaign.
Reject the lies: Trump only wishes he could have the Biden-Harris economy
Last month, a poll commissioned by the Financial Times found that people trusted Kamala Harris more on the economy than her felony-convicted opponent. To be fair, that poll was something of an outlier — at least until last week, when a USA Today/Suffolk poll also shows Harris’ numbers much improved on the question of the economy.
Are people more afraid of illness these days?
When COVID-19 began to spread around the world, municipalities did all they could to stop the spread of the deadly virus, shutting down businesses, cancelling events, and telling everyone to stay home except for necessities. The 2020 lockdowns were an isolating and scary time for many, especially as the death toll rose, supply chains ruptured and hospitals were besieged with the sick and dying.
Bill Maher defends Cheryl Hines, amid criticism for sticking with her husband, RFK Jr.
Over the past year, actress and comedian Cheryl Hines has made more headlines for her marriage to former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. than for her work on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," taking a hit to her reputation for standing by her bear corpse dumping, conspiracy theory pushing, Donald Trump endorsing spouse. But at least she's got Bill Maher on her side.
Make yourself uncomfortable: Documentary analyzes "Sopranos" by putting its creator through therapy
Twenty-five years after “The Sopranos” transformed TV, largely for the better, not much hasn’t been said or written about it. Even its creator David Chase looks tired of talking about his career-defining creation at the start of “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos,” although I may be misconstruing discomfort as fatigue.
Nikki Haley says she hasn't been asked to campaign for Trump, but is "on standby"
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley — who suspended her presidential campaign in March, saying at the time that she had no plans to endorse Donald Trump unless he "earned" her support — didn't take long to rebrand her thoughts on the matter. In May, despite previously referring...
This celebrity chef's newest venture? Helping to spotlight Montana's rich culinary landscape
While some may assume the glitzy, high-end food and wine festivals most often take places in large, coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles, this isn't always the case, as shown by one of the newest food and wine festivals, set to debut later this month. The Whitefish Food and Wine Festival is being led by Chef Todd English and aims to spotlight Whitefish, the Flathead Valley and the state of Montana on the whole — a state that isn't often acknowledged enough for its myriad contributions to food, farming, waterways, fishery and more.
Melania Trump drops promotional video for upcoming memoir, promising "facts"
As Donald Trump presses on in his chaotic campaign for re-election, former first lady Melania Trump is busy doing promo for herself, dropping a teaser video this week for her upcoming memoir, "Melania," which is scheduled for a pre-election release via Skyhorse Publishing, an imprint responsible for such titles as "Honoring Christmas: An Amish Romance," "Practical Pistol" and "Hatreds We Love."
Why are so many people attending the U.S. Open? It’s not just for the tennis . . .
When a good friend reached out to ask if I’d like to attend the U.S. Open with her (in courtside seats sponsored by her investment firm employer, no less) I jumped at the opportunity. The Grand Slam tournament — set amid the summer’s final feverish days — had long been on my bucket list as a New Yorker.
"It's kind of like a ticking time bomb": Unregulated buy now, pay later programs surge in growth
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers saw a new payment method hit the online shopping scene: buy now, pay later. The buzz around the small retail loans has since seemingly died down — but industry experts say this payment method is here to stay, as it continues to go up against established ways of making a purchase like credit cards.
The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots
If there is one thing Republicans want you to know, it’s how much they bleed red, white and blue for America. None of their gatherings is complete without dozens if not hundreds of American flags, attendees sporting flag-themed costumes (some veering close to obscene mockery), Uncle Sam suits or Lady Liberty getups. Jimmy Cagney’s old schmaltz vehicle "Yankee Doodle Dandy" looks restrained by comparison.
Experts warn: GOP using "great replacement fears" to push new "voter suppression tactics"
As Republicans across the country sound alarms over the potential for illegal, noncitizen voting in the upcoming presidential election — and roll out measures to prevent it — they've painted a picture suggesting the matter is a widespread fraud that threatens the legitimacy of the results. But experts say the opposite is true, and instead, these efforts to curtail what is effectively a non-issue amount to little more than voter suppression tactics.
Revolt of the capybaras: Have these large rodents taken over — or reclaimed what's theirs?
Has social revolution spread to Argentina? While the country has historically witnessed economic strife, onlookers were graced with a new sort of rebellion in 2021, when hordes of capybara (large rodents also known as “water hogs”) created a stampede and rampaged through gated communities in an affluent suburb located twenty five miles north of Buenos Aires. Known in Argentina as carpinchos, capybaras are gentle and herbivorous, but they are hard to miss. They are the world’s largest living rodents, measuring more than three feet long and weighing more than 170 pounds.
How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness
A 41-year-old man in New Hampshire died last week after contracting a rare mosquito-borne illness called eastern equine encephalitis virus, also known as EEE or “triple E.” It was New Hampshire’s first human case of the disease in a decade. Four other human EEE infections have been reported this year in Wisconsin, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
Earth has endured its hottest summer ever recorded — for the second year in a row
For the second summer in a row, global temperatures broke temperature records, according to the European climate service Copernicus, putting this year on track to be the hottest in recorded history. Specifically, summer 2024 was 0.69 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991 to 2020 average and was, additionally, 0.03 degrees hotter than summer 2023's record-setting temperatures.
"Irrelevant RINO": Trump bashes Dick Cheney in Truth Social tirade
Former President Donald Trump trashed former Vice President Dick Cheney in a post to Trump's own social media platform Truth Social on Friday night. “Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO, along with his daughter, who lost by the largest margin in the History of Congressional Races!’ Trump wrote in a long-winded post to Truth Social, going on to praise himself for pardoning Bush-era criminal and Iraq War champion Scooter Libby before labeling himself as the “Peace President.”
Nate Silver faces backlash for pro-Trump model skewing
Nate Silver, the celebrity statistician who gained notoriety for his FiveThirtyEight election models, is facing backlash over alleged skewing in his new model. Silver left the ABC-owned company and launched his own Substack, the Silver Bulletin, last year. Since then, he’s become increasingly critical of the FiveThirtyEight projection and its behind-the-scenes assumptions and adjustments.
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