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The New York Times has a piece today with the title “Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left.”...

In 2021, tired of what she said was years of persecution in Latin American countries after being forced out of her home country of Cuba, Maria Luisa Arango Presibal and her husband Nilo Gibert Arencibia decided to come to Florida. They passed through Central America and Mexico, then crossed the border near Del Rio, where […]

The post Cuba’s Government Is in Trump’s Crosshairs, but Political Dissidents Find No Refuge Here appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Claire Vaye Watkins' new novel, 'Yellow Pine,' is about a group of misfits and activists in the Mojave desert, fighting a corporate solar development. Living in the desert is "not for everybody," she tells Terry Gross. Her home, near Death Valley, is staggeringly beautiful and brutal. She talks about growing up around environmental activism, solitude, and her father's escape from the Manson Family.

Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new thriller series ‘Furious,’ starring Emmy Rossum, by ‘New Girl’ creator Elizabeth Meriwether. 

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The Trump administration announced that it is moving forward with plans to eliminate hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, a 61-year-old program that provides early education and support to some of the nation’s lowest-income children. The proposal would strip away many long-standing

The beloved color commentator said he will step away from the broadcast booth at the end of the 2026 season.

Regarding my earlier complaint about it being a slog to open Safari’s preferences in the Settings app on iOS, a few readers pointed me to this tweet last year from Quinn Nelson, showing how to build (or download from iCloud) a simple Shortcuts shortcut that you can add to Control Center to open the current app’s preferences in Settings. Works great.

Update: Stephen Robles:

I made a few riffs off that one as well:

• Jump to current app notification settings
• Current app storage
• Open current app in App Store

“A legal cat-and-mouse game has played out over whether the president can use various obscure, untested provisions to impose tariffs. Now, Congress appears on track to give him a big, new — and explicit — tariff authority,” Axios reports. “Why it matters: A bill on Russia sanctions, named for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, has […]

“President Trump on Thursday publicly defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and said reporting suggesting any friction between the two was ‘treasonous,'” Axios reports.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s blocking of promotions for high-ranking women in the military has contributed to the lowest percentage of such nominations for women in at least 25 years, according to a New York Times analysis,” the New York Times reports. “Eight of 201 candidates for high-ranking posts this year have been women, or 4 […]

President Trump went on the attack against Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, him of hating Jews and being “full of shit,” the Detroit News reports. Said Trump: “He doesn’t love everybody. Put him in office, you’re going to find out what he loves. He doesn’t love Israel. He doesn’t love Jewish people. He hates […]

“Two Republican mayors from the reddest parts of Georgia are breaking ranks to back Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s reelection bid, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the Democrat’s work for their communities outweighs partisan differences.”

“Senate Agriculture Committee Democrats rejected a GOP-led farm bill Thursday in a vote that highlights deep partisan divisions over nutrition aid cuts and leaves Congress without a clear path toward reauthorizing the long-overdue bill,” Politico reports.

Michigan election officials oversaw primary elections this week and also dealt with the Trump administration sending federal elections monitors to...

For the ancient Greeks, Romans, and folks in other cultures, dreams were far more than idle nighttime fancies. They were powerful, often sacred experiences that shaped lives, politics, religious practices, and art.  While ancient people likely dreamed about many of the ...

Spend any time gazing at medieval European paintings, and one question tends to emerge: What is going on with those babies? Far from the sweet, chubby cherubs we might expect to see, these infants often resemble balding middle-aged men, complete with wrinkled foreheads and d...

In the world of eyewear, few accessories have captured the imagination quite like the monocle. Widely regarded today as an eccentric throwback from an earlier age, the monocle began life as a fairly simplistic and imperfect device for correcting eyesight. But something odd h...

It's been more than 50 years since President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9th over the Watergate scandal. Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst, former Watergate special prosecutor, co-host of the podcasts "#Sistersinlaw" and "Just the Facts" and the author of The Watergate Gir...

Ciarán Donnelly, senior vice president for International Programs at International Rescue Committee talks about the ongoing war and displacement crisis in Sudan, plus Mark Townsend, senior global development reporter at the Guardian and the author of No Return: The True Stor...