Although he was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described Edan Alexander as a prisoner of war.
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“President Trump on Monday defended the US government’s plan to accept a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family to be used as Air Force One, describing it as a ‘great gesture’ and saying that it would be ‘stupid’ to turn down, despite growing ethical concerns over the gift.” — The Boston Globe, 5/12/25
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Once again, Democrats are up in arms about a supposedly unethical thing President Trump has done. This time, they’re claiming that Qatar giving the president a $400 million plane to use as Air Force One violates the Emoluments Clause. But the truth is, the Founding Fathers would have wanted President Trump to accept a luxury airplane from a foreign royal family.
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The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom
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The quest to map a costly weather phenomenon
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Chemical analysis of a bird’s feathers offers a reliable way to tell whether it was captive-born or wild-caught
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Despite the latest forecasting science, climate change threw a wrench into this writer's latest seafaring voyage
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The hitherto US-centric economic model has exhausted itself, and Trump’s government is pushing to restructure the international economic architecture to maintain US hegemony. China is the main rival in this new reality, while the Europeans are becoming an impoverished appendage to the US. The Europeans could chart a more favourable path forward, except that they […]
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Successive UK Governments have refused to pursue prosecutions against those suspected of war crimes abroad
On the morning of 22 April 2025, the familiar sight of demolition machinery on the outskirts of Tuwani sent a wave of tension through the South Hebron Hills. Families froze, holding their breath as the destruction machinery slowly passed through the village. Children pressed against school windows, watching bulldozers drive by, their education interrupted by […]
We propose algorithms for conducting Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressions identified using sign restrictions. The key feature of our approach is a sampling step based on 'soft' sign restrictions. This step draws from a target density that smoothly penalises parameter values violating the restrictions, facilitating the use of computationally efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms. An importance-sampling step yields draws from the desired distribution conditional on the 'hard' sign restrictions. Relative to standard accept-reject sampling, the method substantially improves computational efficiency when identification is 'tight'. It can also greatly reduce the computational burden of implementing prior-robust Bayesian methods. We illustrate the broad applicability of the approach in a model of the global oil market identified using a rich set of sign, elasticity and narrative restrictions.
It would give the Trump administration the power to strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems a “terrorist-supporting organization.”
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House lawmakers writing the upcoming budget bill just snuck in a provision that would wipe from the books every state law regulating artificial intelligence.
In our previous share out, we focused on why contributors might engage in a Marketplace and the kinds of value they’re looking for. Since then, we’ve turned our attention to something even more foundational—trust.
If we want the Marketplace to succeed, contributors, agencies, and end users must believe:
- Templates are high-quality and secure
- Contributors are treated fairly and transparently
- There are clear, enforceable standards for what gets listed
That’s the work we’re deep in now.
As Trump changes his tune on cutting taxes for the richest of the rich, Republican lawmakers want to preserve their tax benefits.
Under det långa socialdemokratiska regeringsinnehavet under efterkrigstiden vilade den ekonomiska politiken på en rad konkurrenshämmande regleringar. Viktigast var valutaregleringen, hyresregleringen, jordbruksregleringen och kreditmarknadsregleringen. I korthet vred de socialdemokratiska regeringarna klockan tillbaka, bort från liberalismen och marknadsekonomin till ett mer merkantilistiskt och statskontrollerat system. Valutaregleringen utgjorde grundbulten för S-politiken. Den isolerade det svenska finansiella systemet från […]
I wish I’d lived a life truer to myself. If I could go back in time and throw out every fake mustache I owned, I would. Even the smart-mouthed sheriff one. They were no better at helping me express who I was than my prosthetic noses.
I didn’t stop to smell the roses enough. If I’m being honest with myself, there were other things I didn’t smell enough. If I’m really being honest, I could have licked more stuff too.
I regret not keeping in touch with old friends. Robbie O’Connor and I were thick as thieves back in grade school. You couldn’t tear us away from that sandbox. We drifted a bit in high school. I was into punk music; Robbie still loved the sandbox. Last time I saw him, we were home the summer after college—the cops were pulling Robbie out of the sandbox. We lost touch soon after. I regret that.
If only I’d been able to let myself laugh. Like, really laugh. When people said funny things, my mouth would open and my shoulders would shake, but no sound came out. I know now that sound was supposed to come out.
To the benefit of Big Pharma, the president’s new executive order on drug costs is missing a key price-lowering mechanism.
Check out new preview images for BBC & Disney+'s Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who S02E06: "The Interstellar Song Contest."