Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis
admin On his first day in office, President Trump has signed a slew of executive orders that will set the United States on a radically different environmental path from the Biden…
January 2025
Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives
The video game industry has been in a troubled place for the past year, with studio closures and job security at the forefront of developer concerns. Increasing layoffs with seemingly…
Broadcast TV Is Dying. Trump Is Threatening It Anyway
The belt-tightening has already hit another big money driver of network TV: the morning show. In early January, Hoda Kotb left the Today show after 17 years. The broadcast journalist…
The 31 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (January 2025)
As the birthplace of prestige TV shows like The Sopranos and The Wire, HBO—and, by extension, Max (aka the streamer formerly known as HBO Max)—is best known for its impressive…
How Meta Tried to Lure TikTok Users to Instagram
It was an opportunity too good for Meta to ignore: On January 19, TikTok, one of its biggest social media rivals, was set to go dark across the United States…
Trump Says He Ended the ‘EV Mandate.’ What Does That Mean?
From the campaign trail, President Donald Trump was consistent: He would “end the electric vehicle mandate.” So it’s no surprise the phrase popped up in an executive order he signed…
Trump’s Plan to Leave the WHO Is a Health Disaster
In the summer of 2020, 15 recognized leaders in US public health gathered to author an article in The Lancet—one of the world’s most eminent medical journals—decrying Donald Trump’s intention…
Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison
Those allegations of murders-for-hire, in fact, dissuaded the first Trump administration from granting clemency to Ulbricht. The White House in 2020 considered freeing Ulbricht but ultimately rejected the idea because…
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