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Thank you for coming to my press conference.

Many people describe the Caldecott Honor–winning tome by Robert McCloskey, which recounts my harrowing tale, with words like “precious” and “adorable.”

Truth is, inadvertently switching places with a bear cub and almost being raised and/or eaten by a literal mama bear was a traumatizing experience for me, one which nobody seems to understand.

I can no longer bite my tongue, and I am here today to speak my truth.

I will now take your questions.

What specifically was I afraid of, that day after the baby bear and I accidentally switched places? Well, I feared that the bear mom might abscond with me into the wilds of Maine to raise me as her own, like Tarzan, but without the uncomfortable sensual subtext.

Why didn’t I just run in the other direction? Wow, way to victim blame. Ever heard of Stockholm syndrome?

After years of subsisting on protein bars and iceberg lettuce, berry-picking brought me home to my body

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Some musical rhythms are built to get us bobbing, foot-tapping or dancing. Researchers show how rhythmic complexity matters

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Yes, your brain does. It created it.

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A sliver of space from the Vera Rubin Observatory

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Lisa Gardiner on the 3 greatest revelations she had while writing Reefs of Time

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Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Jayati Gosh, Michael Hudson,  Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas co-sign the open letter below supporting Francesca Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine History teaches us that economic interests have been key drivers and […]

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Back in 2017 I wrote “The End of Cash”:

Fast food workers at the popular burger chain Grill’d took strike action last Friday, rallying outside the Flinders Lane store in Melbourne CBD to demand fair wages and better conditions.

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As the fallout from Labour’s debacle of a welfare bill reverberated around Westminster last week, it wasn’t just Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves who found themselves caught in the crosshairs: the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, also became a ‘lightning rod’ for Labour MPs’ anger. ‘Everyone’, an anonymous ‘Labour veteran’ told the Financial […]

Epstein’s gone, the files are sealed, and Trump’s DOJ says the case is over. Meanwhile, ICE becomes the third-largest military force on Earth. Greg Stoker unpacks why the real story was never justice, it was control.

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Deborah Fiorin once worked for a CIA-linked U.S. propaganda office. She later oversaw the private data of thousands of British Palestine activists.

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If Zohran Mamdani does the inevitable and becomes mayor, and if he avoids deportation for committing the most tell-tale sign of a communist—using your hands to eat chicken over rice—New Yorkers might experience a cultural shift not seen since Jay-Z and Alicia Keys convinced the entire city that it could romanticize rent prices.

We’re talking about a full ideological rebranding of all five boroughs through rent freezing, free childcare, no longer allowing police to use their exceptional skills in racial profiling, and Trump’s ICE having to move to Hoboken to bully frat boys. You’ll be expected to know the difference between halal, Haram, and Hasan Minhaj. Landlords will no longer be able to afford matcha lattes, metro announcements will start with morning prayer rituals, and you will be asked the difference between infants, Fanta, and intifada before being served any spicy food.