NYTIMES (Rachel Louise Snyder) - Our Vast Collective Jeffrey Epstein Failure
We need to hold accountable the web of accomplices who enabled his crimes.
NPR (Danielle Kurtzleben) - Trump refuses to give up on tariffs - a pillar of his economic legacy
The administration timed a new set of tariffs on all of its largest trading partners to take effect at the same time the old, global tariff ended.
NPR (Joseph Kim) - Video: Scientists watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes
Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say there could be a reason for this behavior — or it could be just for entertainment.
NPR (Kate Bartlett) - Netflix viewers the world over are binge-watching South African series 'The Polygamist.' Here's why
Why is a Zulu-language drama taking the world by storm? The Polygamist mixes sex and scandal with a sharp portrait of modern South Africa.
NPR (Scott Neuman) - West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during COVID. Many are staying
Ascend West Virginia is one of dozens of relocation initiatives across the country offering cash and other incentives to move to states needing an economic boost. Here's how they're working out.
NPR (Holly J. Morris) - What animal is the deformed-but-adorable Jimothy? The quiz knows — do you?
Also: Ryan Gosling's regrets, Zohran Mamdani's exhortations and the Smithsonian's alleged wokeness.
WASHINGTONPOST (Molly Hennessy-Fiske) - After a hometown soldier’s death, a Texas suburb wrestles with Trump’s Iran war
The death of a young soldier from Texas prompts people in her hometown to reflect on the necessity of a war that has divided the country.
AMERICANTHINKER - Pride In Subversion
Photo Credit:Horace Vernet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller Entryism, radicalization, and the erosion of American liberalism.
AMERICANTHINKER - Sliced White Bread And The American Dream
American Thinker By M. E. Boyd The Founders gave us a system that allowed us to create our own futures, but the Progressive federal government gave it away in 1913.
AMERICANTHINKER - Is it 1984 all Over Again?
Perchance AI By Kim Ezra Shienbaum A free society depends on our willingness to distinguish fact from fiction, evidence from propaganda, and honest debate from political doublespeak.