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You’re in a crowd of tens of thousands of fellow fans. The band starts playing your favorite song. Everyone screams. You will never, ever forget this moment. Seeing a musician you adore live can be a transcendent experience. But getting to that moment has become a nightmare because getting tickets that won’t completely bankrupt you […]

In the initial days of the Trump administration, officials scoured federal websites for any mention of what they deemed “DEI” keywords — terms as generic as “diverse” and “historically” and even “women.” They soon identified reams of some of the country’s most valuable public health data containing some of the targeted words, including language about […]

A Vox reader asks: Why are young men struggling or failing to date/engage in romantic relationships more so than their female peers? In a recent conversation, a new acquaintance of mine recounted an exchange he’d recently overheard. A man turned to his female friend and exclaimed, “I’m not going to go to a bar and […]

Welcome to The Logoff. Today I’m focusing on the Trump administration’s string of court setbacks, which, for now, seem to be slowing down what once looked like a MAGA juggernaut.  What’s the latest? Several court rulings this week have stalled the Trump administration’s efforts to expand the president’s power. Those include: Does this mean all these initiatives […]

As of this writing, there are at least 45 lawsuits pending against President Donald Trump and his subordinates. They range from challenges to Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for many Americans, to suits intended to keep Trump from illegally cutting off federal spending, to challenges to Trump’s attempt to reduce the size of the […]

Donald Trump announced Monday that the US will impose a 25 percent tariff on all imports of steel and aluminum. The president has a habit of declaring radical changes to trade policy, only to swiftly walk them back. Last week, Trump postponed his long-promised 25 percent tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada, after […]

President Donald Trump is looking to vastly expand immigrant detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Trump hopes to eventually detain up to 30,000 immigrants at Guantánamo, which would require a massive investment in infrastructure, given that existing immigrant detention facilities are only designed to hold about 120 people.  The Trump administration has already sent a few […]

While President Donald Trump has caused chaos and confusion in his first few weeks in office, he’s made one thing very clear: His administration will do everything in its power to supercharge oil and gas production. That agenda is unwelcome news for a small lizard in West Texas.  The dunes sagebrush lizard — a tan, […]

For decades, experts have accused American presidents of neglecting the Western Hemisphere in favor of faraway conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Both Republicans and Democrats have carried out a policy of either “benign” or “malign” neglect, allowing threats to grow and missing valuable opportunities.  No one can accuse the new Trump administration […]

Over the past few years, AI systems have been misrepresenting themselves as human therapists, nurses, and more — and so far, the companies behind these systems haven’t faced any serious consequences.  A bill being introduced Monday in California aims to put a stop to that.  The legislation would ban companies from developing and deploying an AI […]

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the back of a book’s cover, which hardly anyone likes to write and even fewer people like to ask for.  One big author and one major publisher announced within […]

We seem to be in the middle of 16 constitutional crises at once. President Donald Trump and his allies are trying to kill an entire provision of the Constitution, cut Congress out of the federal budgeting process, and cut off agencies’ control of their computer systems. Let’s imagine that all six of the Supreme Court’s […]

Since Kendrick Lamar was announced as the Super Bowl LIX halftime show’s headliner last September, music fans have been abuzz with excitement, wondering how the Pulitzer Prize winner would handle the historic gig — the first for a solo rapper.  Fresh off a summer-long beef with Drake that birthed the Grammy-winning diss track “Not Like […]

2025 might already be Kendrick Lamar’s year.  It’s a familiar story for the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, who’s received dozens of accolades in his career and dominated pop culture in 2024 thanks to a now-iconic feud with Drake. But the new year is off to an even stronger start.  At the beginning of February, he picked […]

Some archaeologists believe that when future civilizations sort through the debris of our modern era, we won’t be defined by the skyscraper, the iPhone, or the automobile, but rather something humbler: the chicken bone.  The reason? We eat so many chickens. So, so many. In 2022 alone, people around the world consumed over 75 billion […]

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, research shows that not only can we see the air pollution generated by industrial swine facilities, but we can see that it’s disproportionately affecting communities of color — all the way from space. A new study published in […]

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him. The swift resignation was, at least at first, a breath of fresh air. President Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly […]

Welcome to The Logoff. Today, I’m focusing on a fight over control of the Treasury Department’s payment system, a legal battle with big implications for our democracy. At stake is Congress’s ability to keep control over government spending, a critical (and constitutional) check on Donald Trump’s power. What’s the latest? A federal judge on Thursday signed off […]

It’s a safe bet that much of what President Donald Trump described in two press availabilities at the White House alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as well as a follow-up social media post, is not going to happen. The US almost certainly will not take a “long-term ownership position” in the Gaza Strip, […]

Editor’s note, February 7, 2025, 12:30 pm ET: On February 7, Kanye referred to himself openly as a Nazi in a post on X, along with a number of other antisemitic sentiments. Read this story, first published in October 2022, to understand how we got here. Fake children, lost Black tribes of Israel, and vast conspiracies, all […]

Over the last few years, I’ve written a lot about degrowth ideology, the view that the only way to save the planet is to abandon economic growth as an objective. Degrowthers sometimes say uncontroversial things like that GDP isn’t the only thing that matters in the world and sometimes say more controversial ones like that […]

A few weeks ago, I was wandering down a grocery store aisle when I encountered the most expensive eggs I’d ever seen. The price for a dozen eggs was very nearly in the double-digits.  Sure, I was in New York City, one of the most expensive cities in the country. But still! Did that mean […]

BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minnesota — In 2014, Lowell Trom hit a breaking point.  For two decades, he had watched as his small farming community in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, was taken over by hog factory farms. The first one was built in 1993. Five years later, another one went up. By 2014, there were 10, housing around […]

At their peak, the devastating wildfires that ignited around Los Angeles in January forced upward of 200,000 people to evacuate and torched more than 16,000 homes, offices, and shops. The total economic losses may reach as high as $275 billion. Now the blazes are fully contained and have mostly died down.  As Angelenos grapple with […]