Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Are Coming Home to an Overflowing Museum
The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400 on display. The century-old…
“What Is the Mainstream Media Missing About Elon Musk? He Is Instituting Technocracy” | naked capitalism
Yves here. While this article makes an important point about how Musk is trying to seize governmental control from the professional-managerial class (particularly lawyers) and top figures in key power…
Stephen Colbert Laughs Off New York Mayor’s Staffing Woes
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50…
‘Time for Him to Go’: New Yorkers Sour on Eric Adams
As Gov. Kathy Hochul weighs removing Mayor Eric Adams from office, Mr. Adams not only appears to be running out of allies, options and, perhaps, time. Dozens of interviews around…
Judge to Scrutinize Adams’s Dealings With Trump’s Justice Department
A federal judge on Wednesday is expected to scrutinize the Trump administration’s extraordinary attempt to abandon corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, a decision that shook the legal community…
Judge in Adams Case Has Faced Trump Administration in Court Before
Dale E. Ho ran the American Civil Liberties Union’s voting rights litigation department when President Trump’s first administration tried to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The question,…
Courts Force a Window Into Musk’s Secretive Unit
When President Trump signed an order imbuing the so-called Department of Government Efficiency with even more power over the federal work force, Elon Musk was there, championing the work as…
Right-Wing Media Praises U.S.-Russia Talks as ‘Breath of Fresh Air’
News that the Trump administration had agreed with Russia to try to negotiate a peace settlement for Ukraine, without including Ukraine in the talks, was a revelation that many believed…
DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.
The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal cost-cutting initiative championed by Elon Musk, published on Monday a list of government contracts it has canceled, together amounting to about $16 billion…
Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy
For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with President Trump back in office,…