The Present Age

"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.

When everything could plausibly be fake, liars benefit — even when they're lying about footage from the National Archives.

Gerard Baker celebrates Bari Weiss at CBS and Jeff Bezos's rightward shift at the Washington Post.

Republicans can insult half the country without consequence. Democrats say "deplorables" once and never hear the end of it.

Many Democrats are treating trans people as politically toxic. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute video proving there's another way.

Bari Weiss's Free Press published a story full of holes that led to Missouri banning trans healthcare. Now she's editor-in-chief of CBS News.

In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court's conservative majority is poised to strike down conversion therapy bans by redefining harmful medical practices as protected speech.

A new playbook from the Reuters Institute lays out concrete techniques for covering authoritarian politicians. The problem isn't figuring out what to do — it's getting anyone to actually do it.

He's either too confused to recognize AI-generated videos of himself, or he just doesn't care. Neither option is reassuring.

Jamelle Bouie warns that Trump's administration is creating an "illusion" of total control. ABC helped make it reality.

Ed Zitron built a massive following by saying what tech journalists won't: that generative AI is an unsustainable bubble propped up by hype and bad math.

The comedian condemned Kirk's murder and called it "monstrous." That wasn't enough. He had to mourn correctly or lose his show.

Political violence is wrong. So is pretending Charlie Kirk was something he wasn't.

Joe Wright's "Mussolini: Son of the Century" strips away the mystique to show authoritarianism as calculated spectacle. #sponsored

CBS News just appointed a Trump donor as its bias monitor, fulfilling a promise made to secure merger approval. The network of Murrow and Cronkite is officially dead.