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Ann Goldstein’s new English translation of Italian-Cuban author Alba De Céspedes' debut novel, There’s No Turning Back (Nessuna Torno Indietro, 1938), is the first since…
One of the predictions I made many years ago was that Long Covid would slowly cripple workforces. Covid still exists, and that we deliberately don’t try to count cases any more doesn’t change that. This is typical of our handling of all problems. We just pretend they don’t exist and won’t have serious consequences if […]
The BBC released deleted scenes from the Disney+ era Doctor Who Season 2. Unfortunately, the one everyone wants to see isn't one of them...
I’ve been bred fine, Mr. President. Finer than the rest. When the light comes up over the pens, it strikes my feathers like a torch, and I know it is not the sun but the world itself come to see me. They say a bird cannot understand destiny, but they never met a bird with mirrors for eyes. I have looked upon my own reflection in the metal of the trough and seen greatness staring back.
The others think of corn. I think of legacy.
They cluck and gossip about the day’s feed. I think of the table. Of the silver laid out like a promise. Of the man whose name rings in the air like thunder over dry land. Donald J. Trump. I say it slowly, like a prayer. There is power in the syllables, heavy and shaped by history. The handlers speak of him as if he were weather itself, vast and inevitable, and I reckon that’s true enough. You can’t fight the weather. You can only rise into it or be buried by it.
A Trump-aligned anti-abortion lobbyist who hosted Nigel Farage's meeting with a 6 January rioter in Florida has been funding and advising the Reform leader while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain
Can home videos help us to know someone who’s gone? A filmmaker searches for her late mother through archival family footage
- Directed by Natalie A Chao
In this mesmerising short from 1991, thousands of Japanese newspaper clippings form a prescient vision of our digital world
- by Aeon Video
Sartre’s phenomenology reveals how a shift from subject to object (and back) is not merely a matter of grammar
- by Tris Hedges
Who belongs to our moral community? The Greek philosopher Empedocles had an answer: all life, from humans to the laurel bush
- by Tristan Moyle
In Middleton, social housing tenants on the Langley estate were suffering the full force of housing financialisation. That is, until they organised in the Greater Manchester Tenants Union (GMTU). The Who Owns Langley report tells the story. In the week before Christmas 2023, a three-year-old child from Langley, Middleton, Greater Manchester, was rushed to hospital […]
Officials at the University of Houston used Dataminr to surveil students, while University of Connecticut administrators voiced concerns over protests against a military contractor and major donor.
The post How Corporate Partnerships Powered University Surveillance of Palestine Protests appeared first on The Intercept.
Beamish Street (above, top left to bottom right) cuts across Campsie like a knife wound, only instead of blood, a spurt of discount stores, fresh produce markets and newsagents has erupted into the populace. A news-hungry populace. Seriously, there are no fewer than three newsagents active in a very small area here, with at least […]
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November 24th, 2025: It's a whole new week, filled with whole new experiences! And you just had one of them: reading a comic on a website! I am travelling a lot today so I am typing this up in between segments. I met a journalist in Tokyo on Friday and we discussed various matters relating to the current policy debate in Japan. In addition, we discussed the latest situation for the Japanese banking sector and the fact that they are recording…
Doctor Who's Paul McGann and Billie Piper, The Boys: Vought Rising's Jensen Ackles, and Avengers: Doomsday were the focus of a recent wave of AI-created "image leaks."
Billionaire, James ‘Don’t Call Me Jamie’ Packer, has appeared on a podcast to have a sook and attack multi-election winning Premier, Dan Andrews, after the Premier dare asked lil’ Jamie’s company, Crown, to pay a bit of tax. ”It’s a... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 23, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] “Riots […]
In honor of Doctor Who Day, the BBC and English Heritage arranged for the TARDIS to materialize at UNESCO World Heritage Site Stonehenge.
Along with a new spinoff teaser, the cast of The War Between the Land and the Sea have a special message for fans in honor of Doctor Who Day.
Wall Street is icing out your kids, food poisoning in the shutdown deal, and more from The Lever this week.
Although discounting empirical evidence cannot be the right way to solve economic issues, there are still, in my view, a couple of weighty reasons why we perhaps shouldn’t be too enthusiastic about the so-called ‘empirical revolution’ that behavioural economics has brought about in mainstream economics. Behavioural experiments and laboratory research face the same fundamental problem […]
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