Inner Ugliness: Puzzle #95
"Slimy garden pest"
President Donald Trump's executive order empowering local cops will create bad incentives that could prove costly for law-abiding citizens.
Make dishwashers great again.
"There is no typical divorce," writes No Fault author Haley Mlotek.
The president's executive order on birthright citizenship had its first test before the Supreme Court.
The econ blogger explains why libertarians might have been (kind of) right all along—and why our ideas are more necessary than he thought in the age of Trump.
No wonder the Democrats are having a young male voter problem!
Scenes from a trade war.
"The reason they're doing this is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself...to shut the fuck up," said Hasan Piker.
Plus: Tulsi does Trump's bidding, a new front opens in New York's war on weed, and more...
Texas, Virginia, and Pennsylvania are turning to nuclear power to meet data centers' energy demands.
The administration shows no coherent commitment to free market principles and is in fact actively undermining them.
A new analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the national debt will equal nearly 130 percent of GDP by 2034.
All to shovel more money at wasteful and ineffective programs.
The text and history of the Fourteenth Amendment run counter to Trump’s executive order.
A federal judge finally acknowledged that New York City won't fix the constitutional crisis at Rikers on its own, but the problem goes far beyond New York City.
The government has been putting sexuality, sexual labor, and unorthodox ideas about sex on trial.
The president’s speech in Saudi Arabia promised a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Can he deliver?
The evolutionary biologist challenges modern dogmas, defends scientific objectivity, and warns against the rise of ideological orthodoxy in society.
The White House calls it "the art of the deal," but a 30 percent tariff on imports from China is economically damaging and constitutionally dubious.
Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more.
Plus: Qatar-a-Lago, Ocasio-Cortez sure looks interested in running, how Mississippi public schools improved, and more...
There is no question that Rose defiantly broke the rules, but we love our baseball characters, warts and all.
"If this is the end of my American dream," says one small business owner, "I'm going to go down swinging."
Trump rightly decries the "absurd and unjust" consequences of proliferating regulatory crimes.
Stephen Miller's understanding of the Constitution is dubious for several reasons.
A massive blackout in Spain shows what happens when energy policy ignores the physics of electricity.
The president hopes to introduce even more government intervention into health care.
During one week in February, arrests of homeless people accounted for 66 percent of all arrests in Miami Beach.
"That guy isn't being trafficked by anyone," says sociologist Emily Horowitz.
Plus: The White House proposes stiff funding cuts at HUD, Baltimore proposes "missing middle" reforms, and Gov. Gavin Newsom urges local governments to clear encampments.
Plus: Yetis, The Seat, and a political letter that will make your eyes roll.
Plus: Homeless encampments in California, taxing university endowments, and more...
Two business owners say the city of Perth Amboy is using exceedingly flimsy blight allegations to take, and potentially demolish, their property.
Afghans who fled Taliban rule with hopes of U.S. resettlement now face detention, extortion, and forced return.
The site of George Washington's famed winter encampment might not have existed without colonial-era iron regulations.
“Between the cost of labor and the inputs that goes in, it’s more cost-effective for farmers” to plow over ripe tomatoes, said one expert.
Briefs urging the Supreme Court to stay injunctions against the order challenge "the conventional wisdom" about the meaning of an 1898 decision interpreting the 14th Amendment.
Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers.
Elon Musk promised $2 trillion in cuts but delivered only a tiny portion of that total. We asked seven policy experts to explain what he got wrong.
Sitting on the sidelines let America play neutral mediator and talk down both sides.
A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might "arouse" or "titillate."
The late justice was appointed by a Republican but quickly established himself as a judicial liberal.
Plus: Air traffic controller issues, tariff deal between U.S. and China, "murder insurance," and more...
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