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Politics
For sharp opinion from big names on politics, entertainment, technology, media and more, stay informed with the latest columns from The Daily Beast.
https://thedailybeast.com/category/politics/opinion/ From breaking news to in-depth analysis and opinion on elections, candidates, Congress and the courts, stay informed with the latest politics news from The Daily Beast.
https://thedailybeast.com/category/politics/ If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
https://motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/
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Economy
Consumer confidence is plunging, bond markets are panicking, and gas prices are coming down alarmingly quickly.
https://vox.com/economy/408873/us-recession-trump-tariffs-economist-projection China came to Trump’s trade war ready to fight.
https://vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/408887/china-boeing-tariffs-trump-economy Get the latest news on Canada from Mail Online.
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/canada/index.html Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.
https://salon.com/2025/04/15/getting-worse-majority-of-americans-think-economy-is-in-decline-under/?in_brief=true Welcome to Zero Hour, where it’s always later than you think. America was convinced tech would complete our mastery of the world. Instead we got catastrophe—constant crisis from politics and the economy down to the spiritual f...
https://theblaze.com/podcasts/zero-hour-with-james-poulos/
Tech
For sharp opinion from big names on politics, entertainment, technology, media and more, stay informed with the latest columns from The Daily Beast.
https://thedailybeast.com/category/politics/opinion/ Op-eds and expert insights on business trends and news from leaders in tech, finance, media, philanthropy, policy, the business of entertainment and more.
https://observer.com/column/expert-insights/ Spotify appeared to be experiencing a widespread technical issues Wednesday morning — with tens of thousands of users reporting problems with the popular music and audio streamer
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/spotify-thousands-users-report-problems-music-streaming-app-120864191 In an interview with VF, ‘Hayek’s Bastards’ author Quinn Slobodian unpacks how libertarians and neoliberals made race and intelligence an intellectual hobbyhorse, laying the foundation for today’s nativist right.
https://vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-silicon-valley-neoliberal-roots In David Cronenberg’s latest film, billed as his most personal work, Vincent Cassel, who stars alongside Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce, plays a grieving husband who has devised a novel way of never letting go, Justin Chang writes.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/the-shrouds-movie-review
Sports
It alleges Maine’s policy allowing transgender athletes violates Title IX.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-doj-files-civil-suit-maine-standoff-transgender/story?id=120858499 There are classic moments in this subgenre of deflated fandom that you may have seen before, Hanif Abdurraqib writes, even if you do not love or pay much attention to sports.
https://newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-face-of-the-devastated-sports-fan Check out the latest UK and world news headlines on sports, entertainment, celebrities, health, science, TV and more from MailOnline.
https://dailymail.co.uk/home/latest/index.html Sports
https://breitbart.com/news/topic/sports-2/ The Justice Department is suing Maine over its refusal to comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/doj-maine-transgender-sports-lawsuit/index.html
Space
From breaking news to in-depth analysis and opinion on breakthroughs in science, medicine, space, and more, stay informed with the latest innovation news from The Daily Beast.
https://thedailybeast.com/category/innovation/ Kravitz offers up a tour of the grand French townhouse he’s had for two decades. Previously home to a countess, it now features Basquiat artworks and a boiler-room party space.
https://cnn.com/2025/04/15/style/lenny-kravitz-paris-home-architectural-digest/index.html FRANCE 24’s analyses of the economic events and technological innovations shaping our world, including economic trends, energy markets, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and space exploration.
https://france24.com/en/business-tech/ The “battle space management systems” equips around 20-50 military personnel to do the work that would have needed hundreds to accomplish in years past,
https://humanevents.com/2025/04/15/nato-buys-ai-driven-military-system-from-palantir Gayle King has responded to backlash over her Blue Origin flight, which saw an all-female crew take an eight-minute trip into space.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle-king-backlash-expensive-blue-origin-flight-1236370552/
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