

Ali Winston


September 29 Update: FELON MAYOR EDITION
In case you haven't heard, New York City's Cop Mayor Eric Adams is formally under federal indictment as of September 26 for a slew of corruption and straw donor allegations that New Yorkers saw play out in real time over the past three years of news

September 14 Update: Feds Close in on Eric & the NYPD; Inside La Eme; Chiapas Narco-wars; Oligarchs Bankroll Climate Revanchism; Federal Firefighters Flee Labor Disputes; Turkey's African Bonanza
There you have it: the days are rapidly getting shorter, the leaves are changing, and if you're in the Eastern half of the United States or Western Europe, the barometer is (finally) dropping after the hottest summer on record. Apologies if you're in Central Europe and

August 19 Update: Tipping Points; Pantsuit Mussolini; Yosemite's Contracting Chaos; HRW Hammers LA, CA on Homelessness; An Afrikaner's Digital Coup; the BBC Goes Long on Mister Bone SAW; Soak the (Super) Rich
First off, I hate to disappoint anyone here for convention coverage but I'm not about that. The entire point of Bleeding Edge, and my reporting in general, is to run away from the pack. That means not only drilling down into weird and obscure shit like Satanist FBI

Oakland's Summer of Discontent
The past several months have brought major developments in Oakland, particularly for the city's political landscape and police department, which is heading into its twenty-second year of court-ordered reforms with no end in sight. A number of local outlets have done a stellar job covering this story -

August 11th Update: Britain's Far Right Riots; Crypto's Love Affairs with Trump; Twitter Embraces Incitement as Telegram Moderates; America's Forgotten Environmental Awakening; Memes Pollute; The AI Bubble Bursts
It's been a few weeks of radio silence, for which I apologize (in part). Everyone's gotta take a break now and then, and vacation is a rare but deeply enjoyable occasion for me. Particularly this year as current affairs continue their morose drift. I don'

July 22 Update: DDOS Robot Dog; Project 2025 & Wall Street Dark Money; California's Solar Wars; The Oil Firms Knew; ICJ Declares Israeli Occupation Unlawful; Silicon Valley's Apartheid Ties; The Ex-LA Sheriff's Thin Skin
Some weeks it's so hot that the basic daily tasks seem like a chore. Guess we can firmly say the second half of summer is well and truly upon us, if not the dog days and hurricane season (cross your fingers though: Hurricane Beryl gave us an early