A banker has been convicted of helping disgraced former attorney Alex Murdaugh steal money from people who hired him to be their attorney. Former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte, 51, was found guilty on Tuesday of six counts of wire and bank fraud charges, the Associated Press reported. He faces up to 30 years […]
Fake news is no laughing matter. It robs us of knowledge, forges false narratives and diminishes trust in journalism. Sadly, many late-night comedians feast on fake news. They’re not willing to wait for fact checks or other journalistic staples. And they’ve been feasting on it for years, especially stories tied to President Donald Trump. The […]
A smaller than expected GOP House majority and a growing chorus of Republicans are voicing opposition to a bid for the Speaker’s gavel by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Dr. Jordan Peterson and DailyWire+ released Friday the first two episodes of an exclusive 16-part “Exodus” series, a follow up to Peterson’s widely acclaimed Genesis series. In the new series, Peterson and six scholars read through Exodus, the Bible and the Torah’s second book, and discuss what it means, why it is significant today, and […]
Elon Musk may release information on Twitter’s internal discussions regarding censorship of stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop prior to the 2020 election, the newly-established CEO suggested Wednesday. Musk took over Twitter last month in a $44 billion deal and pursued an aggressive overhaul of the social media platform, firing thousands of workers and adjusting the […]
At the height of the Canadian trucker “Freedom Convoy,” as it occupied Ottawa, Canada’s capital, the Biden administration pressured Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to shut the convoy down. The revelation of the Biden administration’s involvement came from an investigation into Trudeau’s decision to use the Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in […]
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/35917C/d2h6a3ly6ooodw.cloudfront.net/reasontv_audio_8211787.mp3 1x 1.1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 3x :15 :15 DownloadSteven Heller: Growing Up Underground As a teenager growing up in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s, Steven Heller improbably became the art director of pioneering alternative publications such as The New York Free Press, the pioneering porn magazine Screw, and The East Village Other before […]
The clearest sign of authoritarianism may be when people of different classes are not afforded the same rights and privileges. Do you have to have a position of political or culture power, or have a connection to someone who does, to be free? Does the state dictate what you consume, who you love, or where […]
Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutist” version of Twitter is looking more like a platform moderated with a lighter and less-partisan hand than a free-for-all, but even that is too much for critics. Some warn that free speech is dangerous. Others hint that app stores might ban Twitter to spare users from the peril of slightly […]
Mass layoffs have left dozens of major tech firms and startups hemorrhaging workers ahead of the holiday season, capping off a year of shrinkage at those companies. That leaves thousands of former employees rushing to find new work in a currently contracting industrya daunting task for U.S. citizens and a predicament with potentially life-changing consequences […]
