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trump-administration, international-affairs JD Vance Makes the Case to the World on Why No One Should Invite Him to Anything
By Jen Kirby February 14, 2025 | 2:05pm
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international-affairs Europe Is Supporting Chaos in the DR Congo
By Tiernan Cannon February 14, 2025 | 11:08am
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trump-administration The Probationary Federal Employee Purge is Trying to Break the Government
By Dave Levitan February 14, 2025 | 10:18am
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trump-administration Abrupt Retirements Start to Pile Up Among NIH Leadership
By Dave Levitan February 13, 2025 | 2:56pm
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immigration, international-affairs Trump's Imperialist Aims in Latin America Have Bipartisan Roots
By Roqayah Chamseddine February 13, 2025 | 11:51am
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trump-administration, climate Trump Fails to Save Thousands of Oil Industry Jobs
By Dave Levitan February 13, 2025 | 11:38am
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healthcare We're All Paying for Private Equity's Healthcare Takeover
By Ross Pomeroy February 13, 2025 | 11:01am
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congress Democrats Are Lying to You
By Jacob Weindling February 12, 2025 | 4:26pm
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climate Will the US Sabotage Global Climate Science?
By Aaron Cantú February 12, 2025 | 3:51pm
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trump-administration, climate NOAA Is Getting Dragged Down Into the Mud
By Dave Levitan February 12, 2025 | 3:27pm
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scandals-of-the-recent-past Driving Through Danger: The U.S. Roads with the Highest Accident Rates
By Chris Gallagher, Contributor February 12, 2025 | 3:06pm
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economy Lefties Get a Harsh Economic Lesson in Confirmation Bias
By Jacob Weindling February 12, 2025 | 12:36pm
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climate 182 Countries Miss Deadline to Submit Emissions Reductions Plans, Which Apparently 'Makes Sense'
By Dave Levitan February 12, 2025 | 11:15am
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palestine In Jenin, Israel’s Settler Colonialist Past Develops Into Its Settler Colonialist Present
By Roqayah Chamseddine February 11, 2025 | 4:23pm
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economy Elon’s Stink Bid for OpenAI Is Bad for Tesla
By Jacob Weindling February 11, 2025 | 3:23pm
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media Lorne Michaels Needs To Keep Samantha Bee's Name Out Of His Mouth
By Jason Tabrys February 11, 2025 | 11:58am
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trump-administration Red State Universities Sound the Alarm on NIH Cut While State Governments Sit On Their Hands
By Dave Levitan February 11, 2025 | 11:12am
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international-affairs U.K.'s Labour Repeatedly Shoots Itself in the Foot as the Far Right Marches On
By Tiernan Cannon February 11, 2025 | 11:11am
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media Resistance Is Not Futile
By Jacob Weindling February 10, 2025 | 5:37pm
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climate Fire-Scarred Los Angeles is About to Get Too Much Rain
By Dave Levitan February 10, 2025 | 3:50pm
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economy Trump’s Trade War and Elon’s Coup Mean It’s Time to Learn About Inverted Yield Curves Again
By Jacob Weindling February 10, 2025 | 11:43am
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trump-administration Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You
By Dave Levitan February 10, 2025 | 9:38am
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media Vera Drew's 'The People's Joker' Isn't About to Leave the Stage
By Jason Tabrys February 7, 2025 | 12:44pm
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media Five Reasons to Subscribe to Splinter, A Good Website
By Jacob Weindling February 7, 2025 | 11:51am
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trump-administration, billionaires Elon Musk Has Private Security Goons Guarding the EPA
By Jacob Weindling February 7, 2025 | 10:35am
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trumpland, sports Splinter’s Very Real and Very Accurate Super Bowl Betting Preview
By Jacob Weindling February 7, 2025 | 10:26am
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climate Planet Stubbornly Refused to Cool Down, Set Another Hottest Month Record in January
By Dave Levitan February 6, 2025 | 4:29pm
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congress Society Has Evolved Past the Need for a Ro Khanna
By Jacob Weindling February 6, 2025 | 2:21pm
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trumpland Thomas Jefferson Wasn’t Very Religious You Idiot Know-Nothing Republicans
By Jacob Weindling February 6, 2025 | 12:20pm
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trump-administration As 'Deferred Resignation' Deadline Looms, Federal Employees Are Mad As Hell and Not Going Anywhere
By Dave Levitan February 6, 2025 | 11:54am
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trump-administration What Can The Worst Person In the World Do With Access to NIH's Grant Software System?
By Dave Levitan February 5, 2025 | 3:21pm
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congress, trump-administration Many Democrats Are Fundamentally Unserious People Who Still Don’t Get It
By Jacob Weindling February 5, 2025 | 1:43pm
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trump-administration "Totally Batshit": Musk's Minions Are Targeting NOAA Now
By Dave Levitan February 5, 2025 | 10:04am
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trumpland Proud Boys Fuck Around and Vandalize Black Church, Then Find Out They Lost Their Name to Said Black Church
By Jacob Weindling February 4, 2025 | 4:16pm
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trump-administration, climate These Seven Democrats Voted to Confirm an Oil Executive to Head the Energy Department
By Dave Levitan February 4, 2025 | 12:49pm
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trump-administration If You Support Elon and DOGE, You Hate the Constitution
By Jacob Weindling February 4, 2025 | 11:36am
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climate More and More of Earth's Land Is Getting Too Hot to Live On
By Dave Levitan February 4, 2025 | 11:01am
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economy, technology Silicon Valley Is Filled with Idiot Frauds Who Owe their Lives to Government Handouts
By Jacob Weindling February 3, 2025 | 4:57pm
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trump-administration, economy Trump Delays Mexico Tariffs As the Markets Give Him an Ominous Warning
By Jacob Weindling February 3, 2025 | 3:12pm
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climate Climate Risks Will Wipe Out $1.5 Trillion of US Residential Property Value In 30 Years
By Dave Levitan February 3, 2025 | 1:17pm
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trump-administration There Are Still Courts and, At Least For Now, People Who Listen to Them
By Dave Levitan February 3, 2025 | 11:33am
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sports, billionaires Sports Fans Understand Better than Anyone Why Billionaires Shouldn't Exist
By Jacob Weindling January 31, 2025 | 5:09pm
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trump-administration It Is Becoming Difficult to Imagine What American Science Will Look Like Next Week
By Dave Levitan January 31, 2025 | 3:49pm
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trump-administration, economy Elon Innovates New and Exciting Way to Crash the Economy in His Rolling Coup
By Jacob Weindling January 31, 2025 | 1:51pm
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trump-administration American Empire: Make The Panama Canal Great Again
By Tiernan Cannon January 31, 2025 | 12:16pm
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trump-administration Trump Might Take the Whole World Down With Him
By Jen Kirby January 31, 2025 | 11:49am
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trump-administration Racist, Too-Online Children Are Running the Country
By Dave Levitan January 31, 2025 | 11:30am
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elections Don’t Screw This Up, Lefties
By Jacob Weindling January 30, 2025 | 4:31pm
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trump-administration NIH, Other HHS Divisions Told to Terminate Contracts or Grants Because of 'Gender Ideology'
By Dave Levitan January 30, 2025 | 3:05pm
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trump-administration Politicizing Tragedies Is One of the Best Ways to Stop Them from Happening Again
By Jacob Weindling January 30, 2025 | 11:59am
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climate There Can Still Be Global Climate Ambition Without the US
By Dave Levitan January 30, 2025 | 10:36am
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trump-administration, economy Trump and Elon Are Trying to Nuke the Economy and the Bond Market Knows It
By Jacob Weindling January 29, 2025 | 5:37pm
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trump-administration 'Insulted and Confused': Inside Agencies, Federal Employees React to Mass Resignation Offer
By Dave Levitan January 29, 2025 | 12:51pm
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elections Democrats Flip Trump +21 District in Iowa
By Jacob Weindling January 29, 2025 | 11:55am
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latest The Doomsday Clock Is Running Out of Room
By Dave Levitan January 29, 2025 | 10:02am
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scandals-of-the-recent-past, technology What To Expect From Instant Checkmate: The Truth About People Search Services
By Hilary Tetenbaum, Contributor January 29, 2025 | 2:25am
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trump-administration Democratic Leaders Are Paralyzed By Their Own Cowardice and Incompetence
By Jacob Weindling January 28, 2025 | 2:56pm
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trump-administration 'The Office Feels Like a Tomb': Even With Clarification, NIH Chaos Continues
By Dave Levitan January 28, 2025 | 11:55am
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trump-administration, palestine The Ceasefire In Gaza Is Not An End
By Tiernan Cannon January 28, 2025 | 11:49am
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international-affairs 'No One but God Will Stop Us From Returning Home': Israel's Occupation of Lebanon faces Intense Resistance
By Roqayah Chamseddine January 28, 2025 | 10:15am
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white-house, palestine Israel Escalates Its Attacks on the West Bank as Biden's Failure Becomes Trump's Complicity
By Roqayah Chamseddine January 28, 2025 | 10:11am
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trump-administration 'Completely Miserable': The Trump Administration Has Ground NIH and the National Cancer Institute to a Halt
By Dave Levitan January 27, 2025 | 2:53pm
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economy, technology How China May Have Just Crushed the U.S. Markets With AI
By Jacob Weindling January 27, 2025 | 1:22pm
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climate More Heat Will Kill Far More People Than Less Cold Will Save: Study
By Dave Levitan January 27, 2025 | 11:13am
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trump-administration We Can Still Call it the Gulf of Mexico
By Jen Kirby January 27, 2025 | 11:00am
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trump-administration Trump's Assault on NIH Will Kill People With Cancer
By Dave Levitan January 25, 2025 | 1:25pm
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congress, billionaires Why the UFO Story Matters, and It Has Nothing to Do with UFOs
By Jacob Weindling January 24, 2025 | 3:32pm
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media, comics, trump-administration Jordan Klepper Knows the Value of Comedic Defiance That's Actually Funny
By Jason Tabrys January 24, 2025 | 2:11pm
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climate Big Polluters Want You to Think You Can Solve Climate Change
By Ross Pomeroy January 24, 2025 | 2:04pm
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trump-administration The Trump Administration Appears to Be Holding the NIH Hostage
By Dave Levitan January 24, 2025 | 1:40pm
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trump-administration, economy America’s Anemic Housing Market Is in Trouble
By Jacob Weindling January 24, 2025 | 12:11pm
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climate Davos: The Word of the Decade is 'Bleak'
By Dave Levitan January 24, 2025 | 10:41am
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scandals-of-the-recent-past The Evolution of AI in Entertainment: Transforming How We Consume Media
By Hilary Tetenbaum, Contributor January 23, 2025 | 5:49pm
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immigration, trump-administration Trump's Plan to Overturn the Constitution Hits Its First Roadblock
By Jacob Weindling January 23, 2025 | 4:28pm
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trump-administration, sports Is the NFL Bending the Knee to Elon and Trump?
By Jacob Weindling January 23, 2025 | 2:56pm
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trump-administration, international-affairs Trump Blames OPEC for Continuation of War He Said He Would Stop By Now
By Dave Levitan January 23, 2025 | 11:59am
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trump-administration, climate As Bloomberg Pledges to Help Keep U.N. Climate Process Running, Private Money Can't Fill All of Trump's Gaps
By Dave Levitan January 23, 2025 | 9:39am
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climate International Negotiations Weren't Fixing Climate Change, But Leaving the Paris Agreement Sure Doesn't Help
By Dave Levitan January 22, 2025 | 3:58pm
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trumpland AOC Uses Elon's Nazi Salute to Show How the Left Can Reclaim Patriotism
By Jacob Weindling January 22, 2025 | 3:34pm
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trumpland A Grievance Presidency Is the Demon Child of the Social Media Era
By Dave Levitan January 22, 2025 | 12:32pm
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international-affairs Rojava: An Experiment In Radical Democracy Under Attack
By Tiernan Cannon January 22, 2025 | 11:38am
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trump-administration, climate The Oil Administration Has Arrived
By Dave Levitan January 21, 2025 | 2:27pm
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white-house How Biden Broke His Promise on American Arms
By Jen Kirby January 21, 2025 | 1:07pm
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trump-administration, billionaires Trump Proves Use Case for Crypto, Has Crypto Bros Turn on Him
By Jacob Weindling January 21, 2025 | 12:33pm
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media Horribly Written Headlines About Horrible Things
By Dave Levitan January 21, 2025 | 10:11am
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trumpland Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute at Trump Inauguration
By Jacob Weindling January 20, 2025 | 4:39pm
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trump-administration The Fragmentation of America is Upon Us
By Jacob Weindling January 20, 2025 | 3:58pm
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palestine Israel's Attacks on Gaza's Medical Infrastructure Have Created an Immense Health Crisis
By Roqayah Chamseddine January 20, 2025 | 10:56am
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white-house Biden's Legacy Is the End of American and Democratic Institutional Legitimacy
By Jacob Weindling January 17, 2025 | 5:15pm
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climate Trump Moves Inauguration Indoors, as Millions of Terrible Climate Jokes are Born
By Dave Levitan January 17, 2025 | 3:02pm
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congress, trump-administration, technology Idiot Democrats Hand Trump a Gift with TikTok Flip Flop
By Jacob Weindling January 17, 2025 | 12:09pm
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climate The World Set a Macabre CO2 Record in 2024
By Dave Levitan January 17, 2025 | 10:11am
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climate We're Adding a Small Country's Worth of Megadrought Area Every Year
By Dave Levitan January 16, 2025 | 3:48pm
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elections, culture Who Is the Bigger Loser, Joe Biden or Drake?
By Jacob Weindling January 16, 2025 | 2:55pm
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international-affairs Israel’s Violations in Lebanon Cast Doubt on Its Willingness to Adhere to a Ceasefire
By Roqayah Chamseddine January 16, 2025 | 2:10pm
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trumpland, international-affairs Elon Musk Trolls His Way Through Europe
By Jen Kirby January 16, 2025 | 1:02pm
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climate Energy Secretary Nominee Carves Out His Climate Change Delay Tactic
By Dave Levitan January 16, 2025 | 10:35am
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white-house, trump-administration, palestine Israel and Hamas Agree to Ceasefire Deal, Reportedly with Trump's Help
By Jacob Weindling January 15, 2025 | 4:51pm
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elections Your Mayor's Party Has Essentially No Impact on Crime in Your City
By Dave Levitan January 15, 2025 | 2:00pm
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congress, climate The LA Wildfires Prove that Elected Republicans Are Bad People Who Enjoy Watching Americans Suffer
By Jacob Weindling January 15, 2025 | 11:32am
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climate No Disaster Can Claw the Deniers Out of Their Corner
By Dave Levitan January 15, 2025 | 11:00am
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sports The NFL Playoffs Always Come for the Frauds First
By Jacob Weindling January 14, 2025 | 6:06pm
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palestine, international-affairs Understanding Yemen's Unwavering Solidarity with Gaza
By Roqayah Chamseddine January 14, 2025 | 3:24pm
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elections, immigration Primary (Almost) Every Democrat Who Supports Trump’s Agenda
By Jacob Weindling January 14, 2025 | 3:15pm
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trump-administration, big-story, climate How Can You Have Hope in a World So Broken?
By Jacob Weindling January 14, 2025 | 11:52am
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trump-administration, big-story, international-affairs American Empire: Trump’s Return Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Europe
By Tiernan Cannon January 14, 2025 | 11:02am
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climate Supreme Court Allows Hawai'i Climate and Oil Lawsuit to Proceed
By Dave Levitan January 13, 2025 | 1:13pm
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media Jeff Bezos Continues to Remake the Washington Post into his Pro-Trump Dream
By Jacob Weindling January 13, 2025 | 12:01pm