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Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, has turned out to be one of the most controversial figures in the world today. The billionaire businessman and founder of SpaceX is one of the closest aides of the recently elected president of the United States of America, Donald Trump.

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While Musk himself is controversial enough thanks to his often jarring views and opinions, he came under a lot of scrutiny after making a Nazi-like salute during the inauguration of Trump. If that wasn’t enough, Musk has picked up another feud with the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Elon Musk’s feud with Wikipedia Elon Musk | Credit: Jd Lasica/ Cc-by-2.0/Wikimedia Commons

Over the last few years, Elon Musk has been taking countless digs at the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. From claiming that it is biased in...

Donald Trump will be president again.

Far more dispiriting than what the election says about Trump is what his win says about the American body politic. We are a house divided on a fault line of decency. Trump’s venality, his bigotry and racism, his fondness for dictators, and his disregard for the truth were on flamboyant display for American voters — with his former top general even decrying Trump as “fascist to the core.”

Campaigning for the White House, Trump was a peacock with fetid feathers. And others flocked with...

Donald Trump has proposed a fascist plan to deploy military forces against U.S. citizens who oppose him on Election Day.

“I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” the former president told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo when she asked if he expects “chaos on Election Day” from immigrants. “We have some very bad people, some sick people, radical left lunatics…. And it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”

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Throughout his campaign,...

Brat. Weird. Megan Thee Stallion. Democrats haven’t just recast the lead at the top of their electoral ticket; they’re performing an entirely new show. Right wing operatives, desperate to make silly selfies seem like evidence of — gasp! — socialism, are trying to claim this new politics of joy (and mockery) is proof of nefarious intent. This is either par for the “every accusation is an admission” Maga Republican playbook or merely ironic. Creating good vibes isn’t just generally effective, it’s critical especially in what may seem the...

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is talking up revolution and the prospect of “bloodshed” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision placing the president outside the reach of criminal law.

The Heritage Foundation is the once-staid think tank that, since Roberts’ arrival in 2021, has leaned into the culture wars with gusto. The group has organized the infamous Project 2025, mapping out an extremist agenda for a prospective second Trump term.

Roberts spoke Tuesday on the show Real America’s Voice with guest host and former Tea Party congressman Dave Brat,...

MSNBC’s Joy Reid took aim at Greg Gutfeld on Friday after the Fox News host called for an American civil war and said elections don’t result in an effective means of governance.

Reid rightfully went personal on “The ReidOut,” pointing out that if such a war were to break out, Gutfeld would certainly not be a willing participant.

“Greg Gutfeld I’m sure lives in some sort of penthouse in Manhattan,” Reid said. “He’s not going to be out there shooting anyone. He’ll be on his yacht or whatever. You know, he’s like a Tucker Carlson. They are sort of playing at or cosplaying like tough guys.”

Gutfeld on Thursday compared the current state of national politics to the Civil War era, when the question of slavery pitted the Union against the Confederacy.

“You need to make war to bring peace because you have a side that cannot change,...

A federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, litigation centered on references made by on-air figures to “the Big Lie,” or the former president’s unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

Trump had argued in his lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, that the references to the phrase were defamatory as they created a “false and incendiary association” between him and Adolf Hitler.

U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal wrote that CNN’s references to the term “the Big Lie” were matters of opinion, not fact.

The judge wrote, “Trump complains that CNN described his election challenges as ‘the Big Lie.’ Trump argues that ‘the Big Lie’ is a phrase attributed to Joseph Goebbels and that CNN’s use of the phrase wrongly links Trump with the Hitler regime in the public eye. This is a stacking of inferences that cannot support a finding of falsehood.

Donald Trump fired off his latest defamation lawsuit against a news outlet Monday, this time seeking 475 million in punitive damages from CNN over what his lawyers say was an effort to “defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically.”

Trump’s lawsuit (read it here) focuses on references made by CNN on-air figures to the “Big Lie,” or the former president’s unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. Trump contends that the references compare him to Adolf Hitler.

“CNN’s highly defamatory and persistent association of the Plaintiff to Hitler and Hitler’s ‘Big Lie’ is no mistaken misappropriation,” Trump’s attorneys write. “It is wanton and malicious ‘reporting’ intended to feed a narrative and to achieve a desired end: to cause readers and viewers to associate the Plaintiff with the lowest of low, to fear him,...

Without enough food, there is only hunger, chaos, and violence. Russian President Vladimir Putin not only knows this better than anyone, he has also weaponized it. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has deliberately disrupted the country’s wheat supply, triggering a global food crisis. Ukraine is the sixth-largest exporter of wheat in the world, and — by blockading Ukrainian ports, blowing up rail lines, stealing grain, and killing farmers — Putin has effectively taken about 20 million tons of wheat off the market. Global wheat production is about 850 million tons, so...

Whatever happens on November 3rd, science won. President Trump thought that he could bluff and spin his way through the pandemic. He thought he could hold big rallies and deride masks as gestures of political correctness. That he could ignore biology and create his own alternate world in the midst of a viral outbreak that, as of this writing, has killed some 215,000 Americans. But Trump was wrong. The virus got him too, and when it did, it exposed his lies and his disregard for the lives of his family and followers.

President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania on Monday to stand in front of Air Force One and speak to a fired-up crowd of supporters. Some of his time onstage was spent hammering 2020 election talking points, like immigration (“We don’t want people coming up here! Our country is full!”); the rest was spent rambling about whatever happened to cross his mind. The president is expected to officially launch his reelection campaign next month, for instance, and he’s been wondering about a new slogan. “Do we want Keep America Great or Make America Great Again?...