The Trump DOJ Is Trying to Do Elon Musk a Big Favor

By Madiba K. Dennie | June 19, 2026
[ad_1] This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Since August of last year, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has been building and operating a fleet of gas-fired combustion turbines in Memphis-area Black neighborhoods, in order to power a massive data center called Colossus. Each turbine is the size…Read More

These two water monitoring programs are not the same

By AdamJShriver | April 24, 2026
Adam Shriver is Director of Wellness and Nutrition at the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement. This essay was first published on his Substack newsletter, Canary in a Cornfield. Iowa has a serious problem with nitrates in our drinking water that we’ve known about for decades, and these problems are only getting worse. Numerous studies—extremely high-quality studies—and detailed…Read More