As the presidential election was heating up in February‚ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign made an announcement to staff: Charles Eisenstein‚ the director of messaging‚ would spend weeks in Costa Rica‚ “reconnecting with spirit.” While there‚ he recorded a podcast interview in which he said some of his boss’s ideas were “actually repugnant” but that he was still the best candidate.

Peloton announced Thursday that CEO Barry McCarthy will be stepping down and the company will lay off 15% of its staff because it “simply had no other way to bring its spending in line with its revenue.” McCarthy‚ a former Spotify and Netflix executive‚ will become a strategic advisor to Peloton through the end of the year while Karen Boone‚ the company’s chairperson‚ and director Chris Bruzzo will serve as interim co-CEOs. Jay Hoag‚ another Peloton director‚...

AMERICANS WHO GET their news primarily from cable are the only people who believe that Israel is not committing a genocide in Gaza‚ according to a new survey that examined the relationship between attitudes toward the war and news consumption habits.  The survey puts numbers on trends that have become increasingly apparent: Cable news viewers are more supportive of Israel’s war effort‚ less likely to think Israel is committing war crimes‚ and less interested in the war in...

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke admitted Wednesday that she was arrested and chose not to disclose the legal matter during her Senate confirmation process because it had been expunged from her record. During her 2021 confirmation process‚ Clarke‚ who heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division‚ was asked by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in a questionnaire if she’d “ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person.” Clarke responded...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to take the most public steps yet to rebuild his political future after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race‚ campaigning for GOP candidates in Florida and beyond in the coming months — and taking a leading role in fighting an abortion-rights referendum in his home state. After months of sniping with Donald Trump‚ DeSantis will soon use his connections and fundraising network to help the former president — and is expected to bring in millions of dollars. But...

Other than that‚ it’s going great. Well‚ it’s not really Joe Biden’s only problem‚ since he’s suffered a collapse in his standing generally. But it’s because so few people think he’s doing a good job that he’s in such an incredibly perilous place. It’s hard to exaggerate how abysmal Biden’s polling has been lately. No incumbent president should ever want to be near 43 percent in a head-to-head ballot test. Yet here is Joe Biden at 43 percent in the latest CNN poll‚...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) decision to force action on ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has created a dilemma for some rank-and-file Republicans who will now face a tough choice: vote to boot a party leader endorsed by former President Trump‚ or join forces with Democrats to protect a figure loathed by many conservatives. Greene’s resolution‚ which is expected to reach the floor next week‚ is likely to fail given the promise from Democratic...

Donald Trump used his day off from a criminal trial related to a past election to cast a dark‚ familiar shadow over the next one. The presumptive GOP nominee declined to say if he’d accept the result of his White House race with President Joe Biden in November‚ warning in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that if the election was not “honest‚” then “you have to fight for the right of the country.” “I’d be doing a disservice to the...

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