The Present Age

Ashley St. Clair wrote an anti-trans children's book, had Elon Musk's baby, and got targeted by his AI. Then she did something almost no one in conservative media ever does.

ICE killed a woman in Minneapolis today. The government is lying about it. The video shows they’re lying. They don’t care. [Warning: graphic content]

On the fifth anniversary of January 6, the Trump administration published an official government webpage that inverts reality.

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.

12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony

A Canadian affiliate accidentally posted the segment Bari Weiss killed. It's just a normal 60 Minutes report, which is exactly the problem.

How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News

The first openly trans member of Congress made a rare, personal appeal as the GOP wages an all-out assault on trans youth.

During today's Senate hearing, Brendan Carr denied the FCC is independent. Minutes later, someone edited the agency's website to remove the word.

The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.

The conservative radio host's new AI chatbot is part of a broader push to create right-wing alternatives to "biased" AI. The pattern should concern everyone.

Here's a look at my annual media predictions, 2021-2026.

A trans instructor in Oklahoma gave a bad essay the grade it deserved. What happened next follows a formula the right has perfected.

The prediction market's CEO says the goal is to "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion." What could go wrong?

"Like a fidget spinner in my head": Jael Holzman on "horseglue" and leaving the Hill

Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI briefly revealed what it really is: a tool for manufacturing reality that serves the world's richest man.

The president called the murdered journalist "controversial," said MBS "knew nothing about it" despite U.S. intelligence findings, and attacked the reporter who dared to ask about it.

Embedded with cabinet secretaries, coordinating with government agencies, showing unwavering loyalty to Trump—these aren't journalists. They're propagandists.

The outlet just won recognition for speaking truth to power. Condé Nast responded by eliminating its entire politics staff and folding it into Vogue.

The fake videos featured Black women with "seven baby daddies" complaining about SNAP cuts. Even if they'd been real, this would still be journalistic malpractice.