Musk's SpaceX IPO is where greed meets hate ^65.7%

MS NOW - By Paul Waldman - 6/11/2026, 7:53 PM

Biased Writer Voice 34.8% - Negativity Bias 30.4% - Appeal to Emotion 28.8%

This Friday, SpaceX will execute its initial public offering. The company has set a share price of $135; that would put its value at $1.77 trillion, making it the largest IPO in history. On Wall Street they are practically vibrating with excitement, as banks and investment firms compete to get in on the action. Demand for the shares is... more

JD Vance wants you to believe fraud is only a blue state problem ^66.8%

MS NOW - By Paul Waldman - 5/14/2026, 5:54 PM

Biased Writer Voice 55.4% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 55.4% - Negativity Bias 30.6%

Last week, former All-American Ole Miss football star Rufus French was sentenced to 16 years in prison after the Department of Justice indicted him in 2024 for defrauding Medicare of $200 million in payments for durable medical equipment, or DME, in a scam that involved “overseas call centers, sham telemedicine companies, and straw‑owned... more

The Epstein affair is so much more than a political scandal ^0%

MS NOW - By Paul Waldman - 12/20/2025, 11:00 AM

A comprehensive accounting on Jeffrey Epstein is finally underway. At least some of the documents the Justice Department began releasing Friday — with more to come by year’s end, the agency said — will probably reveal new information or associations, creating fresh threads for journalists to explore. Some fundamentals that we already... more

Grok’s hilarious flattery of Elon Musk hides a more serious problem ^0%

MS NOW - By Paul Waldman - 11/22/2025, 11:00 AM

Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has always been something of a vanity chatbot. Musk’s programmers are constantly tweaking its parameters to make it less “woke,” ensuring its answers to questions posed by users are sufficiently... more