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Hiltzik: Trump’s deal with Nvidia puts our national security up for sale to the highest bidder
Trump got Nvidia and AMD to fork over a portion of their sales of chips to China. Here’s why that’s unconstitutional and scary.
VoicesHiltzik: Social Security turns 90 this week. Republicans are trying to keep it from reaching 100
FDR saw Social Security as protection against ‘the hazards and vicissitudes of life,’ as he put it in signing the Social Security Act 90 years ago this week. That protection has never been more desperately needed.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used discredited and misrepresented studies to justify canceling research into life-giving vaccines.
We’ve always had fires and floods, but brilliant marketing and a lot of hubris allowed Los Angeles to be conjured into existence
For decades, nonfiction writers have imagined the future of Los Angeles. Did they get anything right?
Homes are invaded by masked and anonymous police, malfunctioning technology arrayed against citizens, information used as a weapon — 40 years ago, the movie “Brazil” painted a picture of America in 2025.
Law firms, universities, judges — they’re all bowing to Trump’s threats, even though they’re almost surely illegal and his term is finite.
On Wednesday, the government said second-quarter GDP growth was 3% annualized. On Friday, the government said job growth had cratered, pointing to recession.
The penalty cost for pirating copyrighted works to train AI bots could exceed $1 trillion, which could scare AI firms into negotiating licensing deals for content
California says Tesla’s claims about its self-driving capabilities cross the line into false advertising. A DMV judge is hearing arguments pro and con.
