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My GLP-1 Nightmare - by Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
3+ hour, 56+ min ago (331+ words) Even when I was too sick to stand, drink water, or think straight, I thought to myself, "at least you might lose some weight," writes Mayim Bialik. I grew up in the limelight, with my appearance scrutinized weekly from the…...
Spencer Pratt Is Running for LA Mayor. Could He Win?
3+ week, 4+ day ago (277+ words) My party is angry Angelenos," says the former reality TV star. Are there enough of them for him to topple Mayor Karen Bass? At last week"s mayoral debate in Los Angeles, there were three competing visions of the city…...
WATCH: The Gen-Z Debate with Harry Sisson and Isabel Brown
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (72+ words) A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. Young Americans are struggling. Roughly 70 percent of Gen Z reports significant financial anxiety. About two-thirds of parents say their adult Gen-Z children still rely…...
Mamdani, Scapegoating the Rich Won't Fill a $5. 4 Billion Budget Hole
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (173+ words) A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. New Yorkers boast about their city's resilience, and with good reason: They've had plenty of comebacks. September 11, the financial crisis, and the nation's most…...
Why Don't I Breastfeed? Because I Don't Want to!
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (317+ words) Despite what a random mom online might say, you don't have to martyr yourself to be a good mother, writes Kara Kennedy. The first time I casually mentioned I wasn't planning to breastfeed, I got an hour-long lecture about how…...
The Mythmaking Around the Iran War
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (833+ words) The Free Press Last week, Michael Doran wrote for Tablet about what the Iran war's critics have been getting wrong'in the immediate aftermath of the Islamabad peace talks collapsing and President Trump announcing a naval blockade of Iranian ports. In…...
No, You Are Not Being Drafted
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (117+ words) The Trump administration announced a small change to the draft registration rules'and people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot, writes Nicholas Clairmont. As news sites like Military Times first reported last week, the government is moving ahead with…...
Don't Blame the Girlboss for the Falling Birth Rate
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (278+ words) The recent drop in fertility has nothing to do with career women. But a different cohort is having many fewer children, writes Patrick T. Brown. American fertility rates are falling and some right-wingers know who to blame: the much-derided "girlboss." Katie…...
Send in the Mine-Clearing Dolphins
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (219+ words) A former trainer of Navy dolphins explains to Madeleine Rowley how they might help rid the Strait of Hormuz of mines'and restore commercial shipping. Iran has scattered mines throughout the Strait of Hormuz. Some sit on the sea floor, some…...
What Kind of Autocrat Loses an Election?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (402+ words) The Free Press Viktor Orb'n has been defeated. That is good for Hungary, good for Ukraine, and good for anyone who believes the will of the people should mean something. It is also, if we are being honest, a problem…...