When someone says “It’s all gone to Hell in a handbasket,” what they mean is that everything is utterly and irredeemably ruined. But why Hell? And why a handbasket, of all things?

The Brooklyn-based independent journalist broke a major White House story through her newsletter The Handbasket. She ...

“Despite the massive growth of independent journalism, there’s still this idea that news is only “real” once it’s confirmed by massive corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely ...

Like the economy and crime before it, perceptions of First Amendment freedoms are largely seen through a partisan lens.

Kabas has her own website, the Handbasket, but to give the story wider visibility, she posted a screen shot of the memo on the social media site Bluesky. Then she waited. Her stomach was in knots.

Kabas publishes her own newsletter, called The Handbasket, on Beehiiv. She broke down how she built and is growing her newsletter business, which has 17,500 subscribers. Everything changed for ...

Kabas has her own website, the Handbasket, but to give the story wider visibility, she posted a screen shot of the memo on the social media site Bluesky. Then she waited. Her stomach was in knots.