America and Americans

Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t.

It wasn’t the kind of call a grocery store gets every day. A customer with a thick Eastern European accent called, saying he wanted to buy several thousand cans of Red Bull. Could the store have them in stock in a few days? Also, did they have equipment to move all those stacks of energy

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‘Kinktober’ Shows What Happens When Pornography Becomes Mainstream

A month-long online challenge turns explicit sexual fantasies into daily content. It takes a lot to surprise me on TikTok. I go in expecting left-wing absurdity. But recently I found a young woman in her 20s crying because she felt “overwhelmed” by the amount of content she would have to create for “Kinktober.” What’s that

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Inside a Radical Right Plan to Infiltrate American Conservatism

The conservative writer and radio host Erick Erickson has long spoken out against what he sees to be the growth of dangerous and illiberal ideas on the American right, ideas that undermine the very values at the heart of conservatism. This week, he published a deep dive into how proponents of these extreme views are

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Ignoring the Science: The Curious Case of Cell Phone Bans

The push to “protect” children from cell phones and social media is gaining momentum worldwide. As EU and Asian countries consider legal limits on minors’ access to social media, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled in a Los Angeles courtroom last week on whether his company’s popular apps, including Facebook and Instagram, are addictive. That question already

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Everyone Thinks Lindsay Clancy Killed Her Kids. Except Women Online.

Another summer, another high-profile trial for everyone to lose their mind over. There was Boston’s Karen Read in 2024, Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s battle over who abused who worse a few years before that, and now, there’s the case of Lindsay Clancy. Clancy, whose legal team says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, strangled

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