Trump's Former Defense Secretary Tells Bill Maher He Is ‘Definitely Not’ Voting for Ex Boss  —  ‘DEFINITELY NOT’  —  “There's no way I'll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that's where I'm at,” Esper said.

Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren't two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor  —  A more-than-occasional arrival in the email these days is a question expressed two ways, one with dripping condescension and the other with courtesy:  —  Why don't our opinion platforms …

We Need to Talk About This  —  Today's widely discussed Trump post on Truth Social isn't just another instance of bad behavior.  It's not just a shrug of the shoulders and a resigned sigh of, “What are you going to do?”  Far too often, people resignedly accept Trump's behavior because they believe there's no alternative.

MAGA's Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse  —  One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy theories, invent new culture-war obsessions, and pit one region of the country against another.

AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online  —  US telco giant takes action after 2019 data spill  —  Phone giant AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid  —  Michigan U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg suggested that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, which his office said was a metaphor to “support Israel's swift elimination of Hamas.”  —  “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Biden proclaims Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility, sparking outrage online  —  President Joe Biden sparked outrage online when he proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday.  This year, Easter Sunday falls on that day.  —  A number of prominent political figures …

Trump's Bible Just Might Earn Him Eternal Damnation  —  NOT-SO-GOOD BOOK  —  Trump's Holy-Week grift not only makes him a heretic and an idolator but endangers his immortal soul. … I have vivid memories of then-President Donald Trump standing in front of St. John's Episcopal Church …

Publisher's slip-up reveals James Comer is hawking book about Biden impeachment inquiry  —  A publisher's slip-up revealed that House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) is hawking a book about his effort to impeach President Joe Biden, according to a new report.

Record corporate profits from your thinning wallets  —  The latest economic data shows two big things:  —  (1) Corporate profits reached a record high in the fourth quarter of last year.  —  (2) Inflation is still with us.  The government reported Friday that the Fed's preferred inflation …

Who wouldn't like prices to start falling?  Careful what you wish for, economists say  —  Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high.  Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago.

‘No one told me to leave’: Hochul defends decision to attend slain NYPD officer's wake  —  Hochul defended her decision to attend the wake for NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller after a confrontation with a mourner and increased scrutiny around her policies on crime.

US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS  —  Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA's ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound  —  A federal appeals court in the US has killed a ban on plastic containers contaminated …

Trump Rekindles Relationships With Key 2016 Donors  —  The former president met with the Mercers and others as he sought to keep pace financially with President Biden.  —  Donald J. Trump, facing a cash crunch that puts him at a severe disadvantage to President Biden, dined on Thursday night …

From the playground to politics, it's the bullies who rule.  But it doesn't have to be this way  —  At every stage of our lives we are forced into destructive competition.  It's not natural, and it holds the best people back  —  A large and impressive study of children's progress …