Trump’s Midterm Convention Will Yield a Bounce All Right—for Democrats
The New Republicby Michael Tomasky8 Sept 2026
You must be as excited as I am for this week’s GOP midterm convention. I’m being serious—well, kind of.
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top 76%Dobbs’s Near-Total Destruction of Abortion Rights Across the South
The New Republicby Laura O'Connor8 Sept 2026
Thousands of patients across the southeastern United States are now being forced to travel more than 250 miles to access abortion care in North Carolina, according to a study recently published by...
A town 14 miles from Dallas has no clean drinking water. She’s trying to fill the gap.
The 19thby Ajohnston8 Sept 2026
SAND BRANCH, TEXAS — Days after a large grassfire ripped through four acres of land in Sand Branch, Christina Parks is exhausted.
Gen AI Tools Are Now Being Used to Push ‘Slop Jihad’
Wiredby David Gilbert8 Sept 2026
Over a decade ago, the Islamic State released a disturbing video that depicted its members lowering men locked in a cage into a swimming pool and drowning them.
What happened in Lancaster?
CJRby Carolina Abbott Galvão8 Sept 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In the spring of 2023, Rachel McDevitt, a journalist in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was on vacation when she learned that life at her radio station, WITF, was...
Obscure Committee to Investigate Trump Ballroom if Democrats Win House
Timeby Nik Popli8 Sept 2026
If Democrats win control of the House in November, party leaders plan to turn the final two years of the Trump era into a barrage of investigations over alleged corruption and contempt for the law.
Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today!
Literary Hubby Julia Hass8 Sept 2026
Emma Cline, R.F. Kuang, Alice Hoffman, and more: 20 new books out today! There’s a rule in September that every week must include one epically splashy book: this week, Emma Cline’s Switzy is here...
Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It
Literary Hubby Leanne Ogasawara8 Sept 2026
Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It In Conversation with Leanne Ogasawara One of the most celebrated classicists writing...
Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him
Literary Hubby Brian Dillon8 Sept 2026
Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him “It is the first novel he has ever read that makes him consider seriously the form of a human life.” In time he will say that The Waves...
How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs
Literary Hubby Lindsay Crouse8 Sept 2026
How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs Lindsay Crouse on the Perils of Over Self-Identification With What We Do For a Living Leo Tolstoy should have been triumphant.
What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe
Literary Hubby Alexander Lee8 Sept 2026
What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe From Alexander Lee's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted The First Ghetto “But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What...
This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”
Literary Hubby Literary Hub8 Sept 2026
This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell” The Most Notorious Party “Game” in Literary History This first appeared in Lit Hub’s...
The US has a $40 trillion debt crisis. Billionaire Warren Buffet knows how to solve it
FOX Newsby Carol Roth8 Sept 2026
America had a headline-grabbing milestone this summer. Unfortunately, it wasn’t our America 250 celebration. Rather, it was passing the $40 trillion mark on our national debt.
A Catechism of Unknown Voices - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby David Winner and Angela Starita8 Sept 2026
by Angela Starita The state of the world, it’s understood, has led to poor sleep habits and hours of doom scrolling.
GOP faces brutal midterm headwinds as Republicans paint election as ‘competition with communism’
FOX Newsby Paul Steinhauser8 Sept 2026
DALLAS — With less than two months to go until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump and Republicans gather in Texas this week for the first ever GOP midterm convention, as they aim to...
Key swing state voters to settle dueling Senate primary fights in crucial open-seat race
FOX Newsby Paul Steinhauser8 Sept 2026
MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Democratic and Republican Senate nominations are up for grabs on Tuesday in swing state New Hampshire, in a race that may determine if Republicans keep control of the chamber...
Five reasons the Democrat Party will only keep making a hard left turn
FOX Newsby Tom Del Beccaro8 Sept 2026
The direction of the Democrat Party is the talk of the 2026 midterms. Will it go farther left or somehow moderate? The simple answer is that Democrat Party will move even farther left.
Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets | TechCrunch
TechCrunchby Tim Fernholz8 Sept 2026
The fuel for a fully reusable rocket that can unlock truly low-cost access to space isn’t methane or liquid oxygen. It’s cash, and Stoke Space Technologies is tanking up.
‘It’s Triage’: California’s Next Governor Will Face Destabilizing Surge in Uninsured - KFF Health News
KFF Health Newsby Christine Mai-Duc8 Sept 2026
‘It’s Triage’: California’s Next Governor Will Face Destabilizing Surge in Uninsured By the time Democrat Xavier Becerra left Washington, D.C., more Americans than ever had health insurance, owing...
The Cost of Keeping Cool: Georgia Power Customers Struggle With Summer Bills - Inside Climate News
Inside Climate Newsby By Ryan Krugman8 Sept 2026
When the power goes out during a Georgia summer, the heat builds fast. Inside a home without air conditioning, the air turns heavy and stifling.