Day: May 18, 2026

Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump’s attempt to have $1.8 billion taxpayer dollars handed to him to distribute to his friends and allies, and debunks the notion that this money-grab has anything to do with suing the IRS. Rep. Jamie Raskin, who calls Trump’s scheme “nothing but a racket,” joins to discuss Trump’s increasingly open, shameless corruption.
Rachel Maddow looks at a collection of reports that show stock purchases made by Donald Trump that were followed by federal actions or specific statements by Donald Trump that affected the price of those stocks.
With the major foreign affairs of the United States being handled by Donald Trump’s son-in-law and his real estate buddy, Marco Rubio’s State Department has become a catch-all for loose ends where officials are dumped after falling out of favor and Rubio’s assignments become increasingly disparate.
Mary Moriarty the elected Hennepin County prosecutor, talks with Rachel Maddow about her attempt to prosecute an infamous ICE agent.
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Fulcrum taps brokerage ops veteran to drive AI workflow push | Insurance Business

Her remit focused on building operational frameworks that allowed growth through acquisition … Many brokers have experimented with generative AI for …

Reforming neuroscience graduate education for—and with—AI | The Transmitter

Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience. By Shahab Bakhtiari. 8 December 2025 | 8 min read. A group …

An unprecedented settlement involving taxpayer money and the president’s allies. A look at what the president said he knew about the DOJ’s billion dollar fund. 
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​The Source with Kaitlan Collins

Nature, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01603-8Support academic institutions under attack

Nature, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01605-6AI might jeopardize the uncertainty required in science

Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pensylvania have primaries Tuesday. May 18, 20264:58 PM ET.  Read original article: Read More

Culminating a months-long regulatory process, the U.S. Education Department on Monday published final regulations for the Workforce Pell Grant …

This unit, launched in October 2025, is a specialized health program designed to serve rural Tennessee communities, enhance nursing education, and …

Tuesday will be the busiest primary election day of the 2026 midterms so far, with voters weighing in on key contests up and down the ballot in six …  Read original article: Read More

Sadly, it’s taken some time, but voters seem to be figuring out that Trump only cares about himself, his ballroom, his blatant corruption, and his unquenchable desire for revenge.

BEY03F is the first wolf known to venture into Sequoia National Park in more than a century — after making similarly historic visits to Los Angeles and Inyo counties.

I am putting out a call for peer reviewers for Ticker (https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ticker/), The Academic Business Librarianship Review.  Ticker is an open access, DOAJ-indexed journal that is published biannually. We publish a variety of contributions from practitioners of business librarianship, including original research, commentary, conference reports, case studies, renovation profiles, stories of innovation, library management and best practices, and evidence-based pieces.Reviewing involves reading a manuscript and providing feedback in 5 categories: overall recommendation, content and argument, writing style,  figures, and general comments. This is a great way to be involved in the publishing world. We welcome reviewers who are seasoned authors as well as colleagues newer to the profession.If you are interested or have any questions, please reach out: Kelly.lavoice@vanderbilt.edu.Thanks for considering,Kelly LaVoiceManaging Editor, TickerDirector, Walker Management LibraryVanderbilt UniversityKelly.lavoice@vanderbilt.edu

I am putting out a call for peer reviewers for Ticker (https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ticker/), The Academic Business Librarianship Review.  Ticker is an open access, DOAJ-indexed journal that is published biannually. We publish a variety of contributions from practitioners of business librarianship, including original research, commentary, conference reports, case studies, renovation profiles, stories of innovation, library management and best practices, and evidence-based pieces.Reviewing involves reading a manuscript and providing feedback in 5 categories: overall recommendation, content and argument, writing style,  figures, and general comments. This is a great way to be involved in the publishing world. We welcome reviewers who are seasoned authors as well as colleagues newer to the profession.If you are interested or have any questions, please reach out: Kelly.lavoice@vanderbilt.edu.Thanks for considering,Kelly LaVoiceManaging Editor, TickerDirector, Walker Management LibraryVanderbilt UniversityKelly.lavoice@vanderbilt.edu  Read original article: Read More

Happy Older Americans Month! This year’s theme is Champion Your Health. At the Seattle Public Library, we work year-round to engage and connect older adults with programs and services that make a difference. Below you will find our free monthly programs and check out our calendar for all our older adult audience specific events! Stay tuned for Older Americans Month highlights on our

From EDUCAUSE: The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition identifies the most influential trends and early signals shaping higher education teaching and learning over the next decade. Based on the work of an expert panel using the STEEP framework, the report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability concerns are reshaping
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From the Association of American Publishers (AAP):  Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released its StatShot report covering the first three months of 2026 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Education (combines PreK-12 Instructional Materials and Higher Education Course Materials), and Professional & Scholarly Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for the first
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And I’d love to mention our campaign committee and our department reps. … Three UCSB professors elected as members of the American Academy of …

Board of Education · Jobs · Calendars; Find It Fast. Find My School By … The student population is diverse, with 67% identifying as Hispanic, 11% …

Brown pelicans and other coastal birds are appearing at rescue centers in droves as Pacific heat wave broils coastal waters

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. transportation secretary drew cheers from the audience of 1,200 in Butte as he suggested …

US president’s approval rating falls to 37% days after he said Americans’ financial situation is not motivating him to broker deal with Iran.

With the midterms nearing, President Trump’s approval rating has hit a second-term low as voters question his handling of the economy, …  Read original article: Read More

The former Congresswoman’s warning comes as Trump’s at-home approval rating plummets amid the fallout of the Iran war.

Rep. Thomas Massie faces a Trump-backed challenger as Kentucky voters decide on key races, including U.S. Senate and Louisville mayoral primaries.  Read original article: Read More

The timing brought the court into the middle of a fight to redraw voting maps across the South, even as some primaries were underway.

A new NASA video shows the Artemis 2 Orion capsule’s separation from its service module just before the spacecraft slammed into Earth’s atmosphere on April 10, 2026.

SpaceX is targeting a Wednesday, May 20, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket.

The Library observes both Jewish American Heritage Month and the nation’s approaching 250th birthday this year by focusing on a little-remembered aspect of the Revolution: the Jewish merchants in the tiny Caribbean island of St. Eustatius who shipped in supplies to American troops around the British blockade. The Dutch-controlled shipping outpost, just 8 square miles, was the first foreign entity to recognize the newly founded United States after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Today, the DAG Foundation announced the five finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature, which grants $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.” The prize, now in its second year, is given by musicians

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek and the nearly two dozen challengers hoping to defeat her are among the candidates who will …

Here are 15 great gifts for the graduating English major in your life. | Lit Hub Katherine Kelaidis explains why you should be reading Russian dissident literature. | Lit Hub Criticism How ’70’s soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman made

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As always, listeners asked more mailbag questions than we could respond to in one episode, so we continue answering them here for subscribers. In this second round we take up: a playlist of KYE’s Straussian-related episodes; (Straussian) esoteric writing versus (French) death of the author and the art of writing (and interpretation); prose style—what it is, why it matters, its relationship to poetry, and the rhythms of Norman Maclean; a “Straussian” reading of Steely Dan; and why liberalism is (mostly) worth defending.
Thank you to everyone who attended our live event in NYC on Thursday! We had a great time. 
Sources:
Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
— Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958)
Stanley Rosen, Hermeneutics as Politics (1987)
Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man,” Poetry, Oct 1921
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976)
— The Norman Maclean Reader (2008)
Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
W.H. Auden, “Friday’s Child,” (1958)
Sam Adler-Bell, “Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn Liberal?” The New Republic, June 20, 2024.

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemy.
As always, listeners asked more mailbag questions than we could respond to in one episode, so we continue answering them here for subscribers. In this second round we take up: a playlist of KYE’s Straussian-related episodes; (Straussian) esoteric writing versus (French) death of the author and the art of writing (and interpretation); prose style—what it is, why it matters, its relationship to poetry, and the rhythms of Norman Maclean; a “Straussian” reading of Steely Dan; and why liberalism is (mostly) worth defending.
Thank you to everyone who attended our live event in NYC on Thursday! We had a great time. 
Sources:
Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
— Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958)
Stanley Rosen, Hermeneutics as Politics (1987)
Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man,” Poetry, Oct 1921
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976)
— The Norman Maclean Reader (2008)
Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
W.H. Auden, “Friday’s Child,” (1958)
Sam Adler-Bell, “Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn Liberal?” The New Republic, June 20, 2024. Read original article: Read More

The expanded number of teams at this year’s men’s World Cup will help make the games the worst for the climate in history, mainly because of massive air travel.

For the last three weeks, a messy, dramatic battle has played out between two of the most powerful titans of tech in the world: Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
As jury deliberations begin today, the technology reporter Mike Isaac takes us inside the courtroom drama and explains how a corporate dispute got extremely personal.
Guest: Mike Isaac, a New York Times reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering tech companies and Silicon Valley.
Background reading: 

Inside the courtroom circus with Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Musk lawyer’s question for Sam Altman on the stand: Are you trustworthy?

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It’s graduation season. If you happen to have a favorite English major about to burst forth into the hard-scrabble, AI-invested, job-scarce media apocalypse, we salute you. But mostly them. If you’d like to celebrate their accomplishments and give them a

I was baptized into the sport of soccer during the raucous days of the North American Soccer League (NASL) when my dad, Gary Smith, was the head athletic trainer of the Minnesota Kicks. In the late seventies, the NASL was

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