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Is the DSA Communist? Part 2: Where the "Resistance" Comes From
Why does a socialist group whose own platform opposes everything Hamas stands for keep ending up beside it? We checked the members and the theory.
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Is the DSA Communist? Part 1: What the DSA Actually Is
We tested the charges against the Democratic Socialists of America layer by layer, from its platform to its leaders to the streamers who campaign for it.
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The Real Genocides
The word genocide has been stretched to cover diet drugs and policy fights, while the real thing happened in Sudan and almost nobody watched.
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Whiskey, Whey, and Wheat: Who the Canada Trade War Actually Hit
Forget the grocery bill: which American producers the Canada trade war actually hits, and who's sitting it out.
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The Bakken at Twenty: What the Boom Built, and What It Broke
Twenty summers after the boom started, we put numbers to what oil built in western North Dakota and what it's still breaking.
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Morally Binding: What Trump and the AI Bosses Actually Signed
A one-page AI promise with no teeth, and what it means for your API bill, your home rig and your chatbot's rules.
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Burning Money: The Waste Everyone Has Noticed and Nobody Wants to Solve
Why Bakken flares still burn, who pays for them, and why nobody has put them out.
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New Cars Suck
Everyone's braced for the car kill switch, the surveillance already ran for years, and right to repair just got gutted.
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Tick Talk: The Truth About Alpha-Gal and the Lone Star Tick
This summer, the tick that causes a red meat allergy got blamed on Bill Gates, anti-meat activists, secret pilots, and the COVID shot. We sort out which stories hold up, and why people had good reason to believe them.
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Brazilian Beef: Did Trump Betray the American Cattleman?
Trump opened the door to 300,000 tons of tariff-free foreign beef, and Brazil is first in line. We look at what's actually coming, which animals it competes with, what the futures did, and why the bigger threats to a calf check aren't in Brazil at all
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Are We Being Fed Fake Food?
Lab-grown meat, egg whites made by yeast, and blueberries that were never blueberries. We checked what's actually on American shelves, what's legal, who's banning what, and whether any of it is growing. The truth is less sci-fi than the internet says, and more sneaky.
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Not Fighting Each Other: Who's Really For and Against AI
Three years ago Republicans were the party worried about AI. Now it's Democrats. But the real fight over AI isn't elephant vs. donkey. It's the people who own the machines vs. the people who live next to them.
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Who's Winning the AI Build-Out
America leads on chips and money. The race is about power.
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The Truth About Data Centers
Where they are, what they burn, and which of the scary numbers are real