The Trump administration has hit a grim milestone with its 50th strike on a civilian boat in the waters off Latin America.
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States and localities are hiding how much they’re spending on data center tax breaks, while publicly available information indicates a potential money pit.
Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”
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Always, but always, plot your data. Remember that data quality is at least as important as data quantity. Always ask yourself, “Do these results make economic/common sense”? Check whether your “statistically significant” results are also “numerically/economically significant”. Be sure that you know exactly what assumptions are used/needed to obtain the results relating to the properties […]
For all that Iran has been mopping the floor with the U.S., Israel, and the Gulf States, things have come to a precarious point. While Iran has been mopping the floor strategically with the U.S., Israel, and the Gulf States, a Saudi-Pakistani military alliance could enter the fray on the U.S. side and make a […]
The investigative journalist and “Democracy Now!” host — and the subject of a new documentary — on why independent media is needed now more than ever.
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Trying to fix your self-image can trap you in the problem. The awe of nature truly heals by taking you outside of yourself
- by Céline Leboeuf
How ideology and scandal inspired the idea of an all-powerful president.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “lacks the competence” to review Trump’s campaign of deadly boat strikes, a State Department spokesperson said.
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A little-noticed Supreme Court ruling may be sending a message.
One theme connecting the essays is “enchantment” and its flight from societies such as our own. Modernity has given us countless things we would not want to be without, but its instrumental approach to nature and contempt for more established cultures has left us in many ways spiritually naked.
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Searching for a phrase that will encapsulate his philosophy, and channelling the ideas of Oswald Spengler and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Kingsnorth plumps for “reactionary radicalism”. Suffice it to say that by the end of his book the noun is firmly in the adjective’s shadow.
In 1848, a railroad worker survived a rod shooting through his skull. His accident transformed our understanding of the brain
- Video by the Royal Society and BBC Ideas
To prevent dyslexia taking a toll on a child’s self-belief, follow these tips from a psychologist who’s been there herself
- by Lisa Rappaport & Jody Lyons
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by Tony Wikrent “A curtain of darkness is settling over our nation.” Heather Cox Richardson, Apr 11, 2026 [Letters from an American, April 10, 2026] It feels like something shifted in the United States this week after President Donald J. Trump threatened on Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought […]
AI-powered election meddling, addiction-fueled gambling profits, and more from The Lever this week.
The scientist’s purpose motivates the modeling exercise and guides the construction of the model. Specifically, the scientist constructs a model with an eye toward making available model narratives that enable the modeler to produce an answer to the motivating question in terms of the target. The model acts as a surrogate for the target in […]
Not precisely a surprise, given they sent Kushner, Witkoff and Vance to negotiate. Apparently Vance talked to Trump six times and Iran says that the negotiations were going OK until Netanyahu called Vance, then suddenly it seemed like the American delegation was negotiating for Israel. More to the point, the US wanted the Strait open […]
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