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President Donald Trump’s life’s work consists of signing lucrative deals and then wriggling out of them when the details no longer suit his immediate self-interest. It’s an ethical Ponzi scheme that Trump has managed to pull off for 74 years now, but that’s a streak residents of Palm Beach, Florida, are trying to put an end to. The community that surrounds Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property put its foot down Tuesday in an attempt to block the future ex-president from moving into his private club full time after he leaves office. The Washington Post reports residents delivered a demand lett...

Dear Care and Feeding, Would it be ethical to buy up quantities of this season’s hot toy (this year, it’s the Cocomelon JJ doll) if I find it on sale so that I can thwart evil scalpers and sell them at cost to pure-hearted fellow parents with kids who want them for real? Or does this just contribute to the false scarcity problem the scalpers are creating? Advertisement Dear JJ Justice, I imagine the quantities of Cocomelon JJ dolls we’re talking about here are low enough to have little effect on the overall market—I think you can probably go for it if this is really how you want to sp...

for the full episode. Every week, the White House sends out the Coronavirus Task Force’s “red zone” reports to each state, tailoring infection data and recommendations by region. Some governors publicly release these documents, but in Florida, journalists have had to fight for access. What’s happened with these reports is a good example of how the Sunshine State handles COVID-19 information. The state’s Department of Health collects a massive amount of information but holds some of it back. There’s a private competitor that calculates the infection rate in its own way. And the ci...

Forty-two days after Election Day, and 38 days after each network decision desk determined that Joe Biden had secured enough electoral votes to win the presidency, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for the first time Tuesday morning acknowledged the new administration. “The Electoral College has spoken,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, after some lengthy throat-clearing tallying the Trump administration’s successes. “So today, I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. The president-elect is no stranger to the Senate. He has devoted himself to public service for many y...

While President Donald Trump keeps claiming with no evidence that computers were programmed to switch votes and alter the outcome of the election, he has so far said nothing about a real hack—launched by Russia’s foreign intelligence service—that experts call one of the widest, most sophisticated, and potentially most damaging in years. The attack penetrated at least five U.S. government agencies and 18,000 other users of the Orion network management system, manufactured by a privately traded company called SolarWinds. Those five agencies—the departments of State, Homeland Security, C...