The NYC mayor is challenging a cruel new policy that could punish families for feeding their children.

More than four decades ago, the Greek composer and public intellectual Manos Hadjidakis issued a warning that now reads less like a reflection on fascism than a prophecy of our own time. The greatest danger, he suggested, comes when we grow accustomed to the monster, when its presence no longer shocks the conscience and its violence begins to merge with the routines of everyday life. Tolerance does not diminish the monster; it multiplies the conditions that allow it to flourish, strengthening its presence in public life until monstrosity itself acquires the authority to govern. In this instance, the collapse of conscience is inseparable from the uncoupling of “belief from judgment, conviction from action.”

Workshop participants SRCCON2026 At the Media Resilience Network -MDRnet-, we believe that caring for journalists is essential to protecting journalism. Reporters and media workers routinely cover …

Indonesia’s underground peat fires are surging under El Niño and drought, raising fears of another destructive fire season.

For this week's vlog I sat down with DJ / producer Mark Sherry, to talk with him about the track "Operation Blade (Bass In The Place..

Unsealed court documents reject a forced sale of Google's Ad Exchange and instead order interoperability with competing solutions and data sharing with publishers.

A federal court unsealed a ruling on Wednesday that said that Google must allow its ad technology to work with rival products and share more data with customers to weaken the company’s dominance in online marketing, effectively ensuring that the tech titan’s business will continue largely unscathed.

The court has unsealed Judge Leonie Brinkema's full remedies opinion in US v. Google (ad tech edition). So, what’s in there?

Google $GOOGL -0. 61% must make its ad technology products work with rival systems and share auction data with publishers, under a remedies order unsealed Wednesday by U.

A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up.

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

A surprising number of designers at New York Fashion Week showed work that seemed to yearn for a breath of fresh air, for the obliviating embrace of the wilderness and the natural world.

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude next month under long-term agreements after the kingdom’s key pipeline to the Red Sea was attacked, people informed of the decision said.

Puck's lead media reporter has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss’ disastrous CBS News overhaul—all as the outlet pursues a lucrative deal with one of Paramount’s top investors.

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

Your newsletter's archive links can now share as rich, branded cards on Bluesky.

Union members at The Lancet and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsev…

FANGORIA's Angel Melanson has joined AMC Global Media as the new Director of Programming for our horror pals over at Shudder.

The software, known as Smart, is expected to help the Federal Aviation Administration and airlines reduce delays and cancellations and find routes for flights when disruptions scramble air traffic.

The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.

In the early 21st century, the English writer China Miéville began reinventing novels of the uncanny — and indeed, the fantasy genre itself — with his lauded New Crubozon trilogy and stand-alone books like “The City and the City” (2009).

Newly unredacted court documents reveal damning statements by two AI executives in a landmark case about intellectual property.

By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. New Mexico’s signature crop is having a rough year, and that means chile lovers and the businesses that sell it should brace for tighter supply […]

Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops shouldn't search for.

Key findings: CEO pay at the top 350 U.S. firms rose 14.0% in 2025 to an average of $27.9 million. CEOs made 325 times as much as the typical worker in 2025. It hasn’t always been this way. In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. From 1978–2025, top CEO…

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

Unions support the regulation, but First Amendment issues loom.

A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) and Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D-NYC) introduced the bill, called The New York…

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.