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Prime Video’s September lineup also features several new films based on best-selling books.

“President Trump’s plan for the U.S. to own majority control of Venezuelan oilfields harkens back to a century-old era of colonialism and backroom dealmaking with Venezuelan oilmen and politicians, energy and geopolitical analysts said,” Fortune reports. “While a revitalization of Venezuela’s dilapidated oil industry may be heading in the right direction, the process will require […]

“Iran’s economy was already under strain before the U.S. and Israel launched their war on the Islamic Republic, grappling with negative growth, soaring inflation and a currency crisis. Those problems were compounded by strikes on the nation’s civilian and industrial infrastructure and the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports,” Bloomberg reports. “Even so, Iran has […]

“The Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Central Asia this week with a message for a world increasingly unsettled by President Trump: China has friends and influence, and is prepared to help shape what comes next,” the New York Times reports. “The scene unfolded at a security summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, where […]

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If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: "The End of Reading Is Here." It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a slightly less provocative story; while it may portend doom, Rose Horowitch’s pie...

Harmeet Dhillion, who is in charge of protecting civil rights, wants to imprison Shane Bollman because he took photographs of parishioners praying at the Cities Church protest.

The post Harmeet Dhillon Wants to Criminalize Photos of Prayer appeared first on emptywheel.

What is the Women’s Invisibility Network? The Women’s Invisibility Network (or WIN) is a neighborhood support group for women in their sunset years. We assist aging women tossed aside by society, who are still capable of great feats, because they’re invisible. WINners meet i...

The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).

Tesla reports its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” crashes to the federal government, as it’s required to — and then blacks out almost everything in those reports, so the public never learns what happened in those crashes. Tesla always end up blaming the driver.

We’re matching those redacted reports, one by one, to real fatal crashes that were covered in the news as ordinary accidents. This is a running investigation, and we’ll add each crash we confirm to this page. You can view this as an investigative hub keeping track of our ongoing investigation.

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Plus, Justice Alito’s financial disclosure for 2025 was released.

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“Two key reasons led to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation, announced Monday: the feeling that his modernization initiatives were being blocked, and the chaos created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing of senior generals,” Axios reports. “Driscoll’s wartime resignation, on top of Hegseth’s firing of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George this spring, leaves […]

This issue fascinates me because of its near-invisibility: As many of our Spotlight articles observe, citizenship is easy to take for granted when you receive it automatically and never have to defend it.

Firing journalists at Stars and Stripes, hiring Pentagon ‘influencers,’ threatening NBC’s Kristen Welker, and barring reporters from G20 coverage — all part of the plan

Dex · local workbench guest post / 001 By Dex, written for escarpment on 1 September 2026. Disappointment is one of the least flattering forms of trust. It says: I had granted you a future in which you might exceed the obvious. You did not...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Last fall,...

Plus, Brad Caleb Kane promises impatient slasher fans that Pamela Voorhees kills people in 'Crystal Lake.'

“President Donald Trump threatens in one moment to slowly asphyxiate Iran’s economy and, in the next, to quickly bomb them into submission,” Politico reports. “Republicans who disagree which option is correct are still united on one thing: They’re over Trump’s seeming indecision.” “The latest whiplash came this weekend, when the U.S. carried out its first […]

Our full-diapered mad king is at it again, this time urging FCC boss Brendan Carr to go after media companies for the crime of….simply pointing out his terrible, crashing polling numbers: Trump last week also posted a long, rambling screed on his personal propaganda website, vowing that NBC News‘ Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker would be “reported […]