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Since 2006, Laslo’s pushed the new media envelope for an array of eclectic outlets, including Emmy Award-winning VICE News Tonight with HBO, award-winning NPR member stations, The Daily Beast, This American Life or Laslo’s much-cited tech-forward political coverage for WIRED magazine.
As a former homeless cokehead (turned pastor-in-training at a Presbyterian college in the south), there’s not a topic Laslo’s afraid of. His envelope-pushing drug coverage for Rolling Stone, Playboy and VICE News has turned heads from coast to coast, which is why it was only natural for Aspen Ideas Festival organizers to tap him to moderate the fest’s first-ever cannabis panel back in 2019.
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The Courts: Are Democrats putting too much trust in courts to safeguard the midterms? (Part II)
“Do you trust the courts these days?” Raw Story pressed the former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
“I trust all courts but the Supreme Court,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) told me as he scurried up the Capitol’s steps on his way to vote on the House floor last month.
That’s the rub. Democrats’ defensive playbook unravels if the legal tides turn and their legal arguments are rejected or if their lawsuits get tossed altogether.
The President: Are Dems ready if Trump declares a national election emergency? Not really. (Part I)
Democrats have spent months researching arcane election law, preparing legal briefings and even role-playing ahead of this fall’s midterms so they’re ready, in real time, to combat as many as 150 potential threats President Donald Trump might throw at them. But, even with all the meticulous preparation, the Democratic Party doesn’t seem to have a solid plan if Trump declares a national emergency ahead of Election Day, reports Matt Laslo, founder of Washington, D.C.’s only digital and broadcast-first wire service, The LCB.
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The LCB captured this exclusive video of Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar calling out Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt during former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s contentious 2026 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.