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The Coming Biden Blowout https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/gop-republicans-2024-election-biden-trump/673856/?utm_source=feed 74The Atlantic by David Frum / April 26, 2023 at 06:28AM//keep unread//hide The Republican plan for 2024 is already failing, and the party leadership can see it and knows it. There was no secret to a more intelligent and intentional Republican plan for 2024. It would have gone like this: (1) Replace Donald Trump at the head of the ticket with somebody less obnoxious and impulsive. (2) Capitalize on inflation and other economic troubles. (3) Offer plausible ideas on drugs, crime, and border enforcement. (4) Reassure women worried about the post-Roe future. (5) Don’t be too obvious about suppressing Democratic votes, because really blatant voter suppression will provoke and mobilize Democrats to vote, not discourage them. Unfortunately for them, Republicans have turned every element of the plan upside down and inside out. Despite lavish anti...

All the Texts Fox News Didn’t Want You to Read By Nia Prater, Matt Stieb, and Benjamin Hart https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/all-the-texts-fox-news-didnt-want-you-to-read.html Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images In 2021, Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Last week, just as the trial was getting underway, Fox settled the case with a $787.5 million payment. And on Monday, in shocking news that may or may not be directly related to that settlement, the network parted ways with Tucker Carlson, its biggest star. Dominion had accused Fox personalities of repeatedly airing debunked election-fraud theories involving Dominion’s voting machine used in the 2020 election. Dominion would have had to prove that Fox News hosts knowingly disseminated falsehoods to their viewers. To that end, the company subpoenaed extensive internal text messages and emails from and between prominent names in the Fox News infrastructure, inc...

30 years of public health research supports thinking of guns as statistically more of a personal hazard than a benefit. Case-control studies have repeatedly found that gun ownership is associated with an increased risk of gun-related homicide or suicide occurring in the home (Kellermann and Reay, 1986; Kellermann et al., 1993; Cummings and Koepsell, 1998; Wiebe, 2003; Dahlberg et al., 2004; Hemenway, 2011; Anglemeyer et al., 2014). For homicides, the association is largely driven by gun-related violence committed by family members and other acquaintances, not strangers (Kellermann et al., 1993, 1998; Wiebe, 2003). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0373-z/

11 Weird and Upsetting Facts About Elon Musk By Eve Peyser https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/04/11-weird-and-upsetting-facts-about-elon-musk.html Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images/Shutterstock Elon Musk is the richest man on the planet, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and now, the prospective owner of one of the internet’s worst websites. Ever since he moved to acquire Twitter for $44 billion, it seems like nobody, or at least nobody who works in the media, can shut up about the man. (“Whereas the Twitter news cycle used to be determined by Donald Trump’s tweets, it’s now determined by Elon Musk’s,” observed New York Times reporter Katie Rosman.) Despite the relentless chatter, how well do you really know Mr. Musk? Yes, he’s the electric-car guy, one of several space-bound billionaires, and Twitter’s cringiest and most powerful poster. But there’s so much more. (For example, did you know that he was bullied when he was a child? Now you do!) So buckle up, sweetie...