Jens Ludwig is an economist who’s seen some things. A longtime gun-violence researcher who directs the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, he’s accompanied cops to murder scenes and on high-speed chases. America’s efforts to control gun violence, he argues in Unforgiving Places, are coming up short. Liberals’ focus on “root causes” and conservatives’ support for
Covering up the Biden cover-up.Journalist gets remedial course in human decency.Why Hunter Biden threatened Jake Tapper at the Super Bowl.Ousted DNC vice chair David Hogg reaps what he sows. It’s Friday, May 16, 2025 It was a bad week for Democrats, who are already gearing up for a 2028 primary season that promises to be
Before Isaiah Decastro Nash was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, the philosophy undergraduate dabbled in poetry. “The primordial trauma of existence is the death and rot of God. The corpse of God; the corpse of Death; the corpse of Time; the corpse of the Phallus,” he wrote in “Sociotraumatics,” a 2024 poem published
Liberal network has battled steep financial losses and plummeting ratings in recent years Brian Stelter (Getty Images) CNN is trying to create another streaming platform, three years after shuttering its catastrophic $300 million “CNN+” platform in just 23 days. The new streaming venture will build on CNN’s existing digital subscription system, which provides paid users
Several companies that former DOE loan czar Jigar Shah gave money to are now in dire financial straits Jigar Shah attends the 2024 TIME100 Gala (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for TIME) President Joe Biden’s energy loan czar gave out billions to green energy companies. Now, he’s trying to help them to leave the United States and
Jake Tapper claims Democrats ‘wouldn’t be honest with us’ until ‘after the election’ Getty Images A senior aide quit their job at the White House because they didn’t think Joe Biden should run for reelection. We don’t know who it was, but they spoke to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, authors of the forthcoming book
New book reveals how Biden’s inner circle ‘pushed forward with the president’s re-election campaign despite seeing signs of physical and mental decline’ ChatGPT Joe Biden was in such bad physical shape beginning in 2023 that advisers discussed whether he would need a wheelchair to get around if he won a second term, Jake Tapper and Alex