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ONE OF THE intellectual gargoyles that has crawled out of Donald Trump’s brain is the idea that we should “open up” libel laws to make it easier to punish the media for negative or unfair stories. Trump also wants top officials to sign nondisclosure agreements, so they never write memoirs that upset the boss. Trump is…
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is weighing naming as Food and Drug Administration commissioner a staunch libertarian who has called for eliminating the agency’s mandate to determine whether new medicines are effective before approving them for sale. “Let people start using them, at their own risk,” the candidate, Jim O’Neill, said in a 2014 speech to a biotech…
Clockwise from top left: Trump, Steve Bannon, Corey Lewandowski, and Andy Puzder.Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images, Jesse Grant/Getty Images, Mandel Ngan/Getty Images, and Jeff Swensen/Getty Images. Shortly after Thursday’s announcement that Donald Trump would nominate Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s CEO Andy Puzder to lead the Labor Department, St. Louis’ Riverfront Times…
WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials. They based that conclusion, in part, on another finding — which they say was also reached with high confidence —…
A weird side effect of having a president-elect who tweets incessantly has been the battle for the space under his tweets. Over the past several months, a series of automated accounts have been vying to respond to Donald Trump’s tweets within seconds of being posted. This week, however, Twitter has been cracking down on…
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with…
We’ve long understood that there’s something fundamentally broken about the United States’ modern economy, from the uneven distribution of net household wealth to the growing disparities in incomes between the 1 percent and everyone else. But new research from three top economists paints an even grimmer picture, by putting to bed one of the biggest myths about…
END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Critics are taking aim at the coalition of Americans pushing “to rethink essentially everything about the way we treat each other.” Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images Critics are taking aim at the coalition of Americans…
The people of Liberland love Bitcoin and hate political correctness. There will be no taxes and very few women or people of color. But with some luck, the unrecognized three-square-mile territory on the Western bank of the Danube might one day become the Libertarian utopia for disaffected white men. The women of Liberland may be…
Start Article Post Content Donald Trump will remain an exec producer on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” which is returning Jan. 2 after a two-year hiatus with new host Arnold Schwarzenegger. MGM confirmed to Variety that Trump has retained his EP credit on the series. The president-elect’s status on the 15th season of the reality series that made…