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Ad Policy A bust of Elon Musk that was recently vandalized is seen near the SpaceX projects in Brownsville, Texas, on May 3, 2025. (Photo by Gabriel Cardenas / AFP) (Gabriel Cardenas / AFP via Getty Images) On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we are joined by Julia Carrie Wong to discuss Elon Musk’s recent opposition to empathy, how it comes out of the Christian right, and the relationship it has to previous discussions of longtermism.  Julia Carrie Wong is a features writer at The Guardian. Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: thenation.com/podcastsubscribe. Subscribe to…

California eclipsed Japan in 2024 to become the fourth-largest economy in the world. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced earlier this month that the state’s population increased for the second year in a row. Tourism has hit record levels, as Los Angeles prepares to step onto the world stage as the host of the 2028 Summer Olympics.But for all of that, there are rising signs that California is entering one of the most difficult periods in its history. The state is confronting what many leaders and officials say is an unprecedented confluence of forces — economic, political, social, environmental — that’s about…

On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Ed O’Keefe: United CEO Scott KirbyRep. Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago Peter Mandelson, U.K. ambassador to the U.S.Click here to browse full transcripts from 2025 of “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”   ED O’KEEFE: I’m Ed O’Keefe in Washington.And this week on Face the Nation: The papal conclave comes to a surprise ending, while there’s growing concerns over our aging air traffic control system ahead of a busy summer travel season.After recent air traffic control blackouts at Newark Airport,…

In 1983, William H. Luers, a new American ambassador to Czechoslovakia, bet on a long shot for its future: Vaclav Havel, the often-imprisoned poet-playwright and enemy of the Communist state. But after leading a peaceful revolution to oust the regime, the long shot cultural leader became the democratically-elected last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of its successor, the Czech Republic.The ambassador’s contribution to Mr. Havel’s very survival in the last years of Communist rule, and his subsequent political successes were, in his own telling, results of maneuvers as gentle as the so-called Velvet Revolution that extricated Czechoslovakia from…

The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, in possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government, four people with knowledge of the matter said.The plane will then be donated to President Trump’s presidential library when he leaves office, two senior officials said.Democratic lawmakers and good government groups expressed concern over the conflicts the proposal presents. The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and Mr. Trump’s intention to…

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Jeanine Pirro, who just left Fox News’ The Five to become the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., attends FOX Nation’s 2024 Patriot Awards on Dec. 5, 2024. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Theo Wargo/Getty Images On the eve of President Trump’s inauguration, Fox News star Jeanine Pirro stood on the stage at a party in his honor, his son Donald Trump Jr. by her side. A Trump official responsible for hiring raised Pirro’s arm aloft and told the crowd, “Very soon, we have a big announcement for another big hire!” Pirro mouthed the words “No, no,” and…

“In the 1970s, when busing began in the schools, the teachers were tasked with categorizing the students in their classrooms,” said Wendy Gaudin, 54, referring to the effort in some cities to desegregate public schools. Her Creole grandparents left New Orleans for California. As an adult, Ms. Gaudin returned and now teaches in New Orleans at Xavier University, the only Catholic school among the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities. “I was categorized as a Native American, and my sister Roslyn was categorized as Caucasian, and my sister Leslie was categorized as a Pacific Islander.”Professor Gaudin, who has written a…

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said “this is the most optimistic I’ve been in my entire career about finally getting the FAA fixed” as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has called for increased investment amid major outages and delays at Newark Liberty International Airport. “I and others in the aviation industry have been working on this for decades, and I think we’re finally– we’ve turned the corner, and we have the commitment,” Kirby said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”Air traffic control and aviation more broadly has been under the microscope in recent months, following January’s deadly midair collision over Washington,…

May 11, 2025 Republicans’ pro-motherhood policies are a sham. Democrats have a chance to do better. Ad Policy Children participate in activities at the Head Start classroom in the Carl and Norma Millers Childrens Center on March 13, 2023 in Frederick, Maryland.(Maansi Srivastava / The Washington Post via Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission. Mother’s Day is here, and while President Trump may seem an unlikely celebrant of the occasion, his administration has recently floated several proposals to incentivize motherhood—or, more accurately, giving birth. There’s the $5,000 “baby bonus” for every…