Lauren Lewis

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Black |Kali Holloway |Anthony Fisher |Lauren Lewis

Harvard said no. No to government minders, no to intellectual dishonesty, no to conservative DEI. In a forceful letter of rebuke to the Trump administration’s threat to withhold federal money from the university if it does not acquiesce to a series of “ham-handed” demands—including government audits to monitor “ideological capture”—Harvard president Alan M. Garber basically told the government to f--k all the way off. He said it in a more Harvard way, but that was the message.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Kenneal Patterson |Erkki Forster |Lauren Lewis

MAGA guru Steve Bannon slammed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Monday as “close to an unmitigated disaster.”Lutnick, the billionaire Cabinet secretary who promised “no recession in America,” has become one of Donald Trump’s most prominent spokespeople on tariffs. But Bannon—who is a major proponent of tariffs—turned on him in his podcast and linked him to Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and DOGE supremo with whom Bannon has openly been at war.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Janna Brancolini |Lauren Lewis |Amethyst Martinez

Sen. Cory Booker slammed Elon Musk in a marathon filibuster for “bullying” Republicans into supporting President Donald Trump even when they disagreed with him. The New Jersey Democrat had vowed Monday night to hold the floor for as long as he was “physically able” to protest what he called a national “crisis” unleashed by the Trump administration.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Lauren Lewis |Sean McCarthy |Michael Boyle

Comedian John Oliver has been sued by a health insurance executive that he excoriated in an on-air rant. “F--- that doctor with a rusty canoe. I hope he gets tetanus of the balls,” Oliver said in an episode of Last Week Tonight that aired in April 2024. The expletives came moments after Oliver said that Dr. Brian Morley “thinks it’s okay if people have s--- on them for days” in reference to testimony from a 2017 Medicaid hearing about home nursing visits.