Politics

Social media platforms like Facebook “are killing people” by allowing Covid-19 misinformation to proliferate, President Biden said on Friday. A reporter asked the president if he had a message for social media companies about Covid misinformation. Biden replied, “They’re killing people. Look, the only pandemic we have is among the …

After thousands demonstrated in cities and towns across Cuba on Sunday, President Joe Biden released a statement on Monday saying the U.S. stands with the Cuban people. The president called the protests a “clarion call for freedom and relief” while offering his support, but the president has not taken substantive …

This piece is part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, published in the July/August 2021 issue of the magazine. Imagine an election with three candidates. Let’s call them Alex, Barry, and Claire. Alex and Barry have staked their campaigns on universal strawberry ice cream, but Claire wants to lead a …

Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, is now officially a federal holiday. President Biden signed into law on Thursday a bill passed by Congress designating June 19th as Juneteenth National Independence Day. The Juneteenth holiday originated when on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in …

Donald Trump — languishing in the social media wilderness, banned from Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube and Twitch after inciting a violent mob to storm the U.S. Capitol — finally got a spot of good news on Friday. Facebook announced that the former president’s indefinite suspension from the social media network …

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and paid for her to travel with him, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing three people briefed on the matter. If Gaetz paid for a 17-year-old …

After more than 24 hours of debate, the Senate voted in favor of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid package. The bill, because of the Senate’s changes, will now head back to the House for final passage and then on to the president to sign. On Saturday, the bill passed along …

Sander van der Linden was working in his office at the University of Cambridge a few years ago when he received a strange phone call. A professor of social psychology and director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Laboratory, van der Linden is one of the world’s leading researchers on how …

When Rush Limbaugh, the Great Bloviater of the AM dial, signed off from the “Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,” two days before Christmas, he warned the faithful in the raspy remains of his famous trumpeting baritone: “The day is gonna come, folks, where I’m not going to be able …

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president, described some of the blowback he has received for having the audacity to put democracy above the cult of Trump. Chuck Todd, host of NBC News’ Meet the Press, asked the congressman to …