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Charting Juul's Face-Off With Legislators and Watchdogs

This week, special guest Nitasha Tiku charts Juul's ever-changing relationship with its consumers, its investors, and those who oppose its product.

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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics

Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.

Dell Cameron

MAGA Media Seems to Have Hit Its Breaking Point Over Iran

“The online right wasn’t supportive and there wasn’t anything that was going to change that,” says one person familiar with the Republican influencer pipeline.

Makena Kelly

Uncanny Valley: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop

In this episode, we discuss Iran’s threats to target US tech firms, gear up for the midterm elections, and get a scene report from the Polymarket pop-up bar in DC.

Kate Knibbs

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist

The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

Makena Kelly

The Next Attorney General Will Probably Be an Election Denier

Pam Bondi’s DOJ left election deniers frothing for more. Potential candidates for the attorney general job could give them what they want.

David Gilbert

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Boutayna Chokrane

‘We Were Not Ready for This’: Lebanon's Emergency System Is Hanging by a Thread

In Lebanon, nearly 1 in 5 people has been displaced by Israeli attacks, leaving the government to manage a modern crisis without modern digital infrastructure.

Carla Sertin

The Pro-Iran Meme Machine Trolling Trump With AI Lego Cartoons

Since the beginning of the Iran war, the group Explosive Media has released over a dozen viral videos mocking Trump and the US.

David Gilbert

Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

Katie Drummond

The New Era of Militia Influencers

The militia movement in the US is undergoing a rebrand that trades counterprotests for expensive weapons, manly sweatshirts, and highly curated Instagram grids.

David Gilbert

New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction

The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.

Molly Taft

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: This Time, a US Court Has Ruled in the Government's Favor

A US appeals court ruling is at odds with a separate, lower court decision from March, leaving uncertainty about if and how the US military can use the AI company's Claude model.

Paresh Dave