public health MAGA Sen. John Kennedy begs for more humiliation from ER doctor (video) Mark Frauenfelder

public health MAGA senator's attempt to discredit expert backfires at gun crime hearing (video) Mark Frauenfelder

rand paul Dr. Fauci blasts Sen. Rand Paul in a sassy exchange Carla Sinclair

intel Democratic Senators get feisty over intel directors' non-answers Jason Weisberger

politics Watch as a Democrat screams into the wind Jason Weisberger

bernie sanders Long COVID expert at US Senate hearing: "the burden of disease and disability from long COVID . . . is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease" Jennifer Sandlin

politics "This was MY ass": Senator John Kennedy reads from one of the most banned books in the U.S. Jennifer Sandlin

UFOs US Congress kicks off public UFO hearings today (Watch live here!) David Pescovitz

media "The New York End Times" is the parody of record Elías Villoro

Culture Temperature Check is a podcast about climate, race, and culture Elías Villoro

politics Senators engage in a bipartisan attempt to go viral Jason Weisberger

Comics Let's remember EC Comics this Halloween Devin Nealy

books Ruth Bader Ginsburg's personal library is up for auction David Pescovitz

Internet The senators who are regulating social media show, once again, that they don't understand it Annie Rauwerda

guns A new investigation from the Trace shows that the ATF rarely enforces the law Thom Dunn

Meghan banned from Britain and Obamas to divorce in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

transgender rights Biden to drop military transgender ban Rob Beschizza

Senate panel to grill Facebook, Twitter CEOs on 'anti-conservative bias' because they blocked Hunter Biden laptop disinfo stories Xeni Jardin

racism Amy Coney Barrett's legal reasoning for dismissing a racial discrimination case Thom Dunn

science fiction New edition of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother/Homeland with intro by Edward Snowden Mark Frauenfelder