What is love to you? An artist focuses on the hands and gestures of his subjects as they reflect on this boundless question
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In a tight Democratic primary, El-Sayed is trying to distinguish himself as one of two candidates running from the left.
The post Abdul El-Sayed Wants to Be the First Pro-Palestine Senator From Michigan appeared first on The Intercept.
Doctors said my son would die. I wouldn’t believe them, raised millions of dollars and travelled the world for a cure
- by Lina Zeldovich
Loose threads, tugged seams and torn hems. How wearing vintage clothes helps me accept the discomfort of imperfection
- by Freya Howarth
As Nigel Farage's party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads
More than four years on from the TV presenter's death, her mother laments that the Labour Government is 'scared of the press' and will not consider media reform
It is fifty years today since the death of Francisco Franco, the dictator who ruled Spain with an iron hand for thirty-six years. Despite the passage of decades, the influence of his dictatorship can still be felt in Spanish politics and society. In 1982, the socialist leader Alfonso Guerra jubilantly declared ‘Not even her mother […]
Tuli Saha and Alexandra Varadi High levels of household indebtedness can amplify negative economic shocks, if highly indebted mortgagors make larger cuts to spending in response to them or are more vulnerable to defaulting on mortgage payments adding to bank losses. These are tail risks which can pose significant financial instability. In this post, we … Continue reading The debt trigger: how household debt can amplify the effect of rising rates
Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs and an international right-wing network determined to topple the popular President Claudia Sheinbaum. Violent demonstrations which erupted in over 50 cities across Mexico on November 15 were secretly financed and coordinated by an international right-wing network and amplified by bot networks, a new report by public fact-checking platform Infodemia has concluded. Those findings were amplified by Mexican President Claudia […]
The post Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’ exposed as viral right-wing plot first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’ exposed as viral right-wing plot appeared first on The Grayzone.
A new policy by Anthem will punish hospitals that use doctors outside of its network — triggering chaos and cutting patients’ access to care.
In Earth’s cracks, slow-motion temblors rumble while the planet repairs itself
The post Here’s How Rocks Heal Themselves in Deep Faults appeared first on Nautilus.
Members of Congress are getting rich trading stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations.
The post Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry Mike Johnson Is Stalling appeared first on The Intercept.
It is well-known that Keynes frequently criticised more traditional economics for committing the ‘fallacy of composition.’ This fallacy essentially involves the mistaken belief that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts. Keynes argued that this is not the case in society or the economy, and that, a fortiori, an adequate analysis […]
Decapitated remnants of Aspidorhynchus fish from the Late Jurassic hint at who they hunted—and who hunted them
The post These Gory, Rare Fossils Unravel Ancient Marine Rivalries appeared first on Nautilus.
I am travelling today to Tokyo and have little time to write here. But with the latest national accounts data coming out on Monday (November 17, 2025), the discussions within the government are about the size of the fiscal stimulus that will be initiated in the next fiscal round. This The Japan Times article (November…
Australia is set to meet their target of hitting net zero much earlier than 2050 after scientists managed to figure out how to channel the anger generated from low-rating cable channel, Sky News Australia, to power the grid. ”It’s early... Read More ›
Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support
“President Trump assailed an American journalist in the Oval Office on Tuesday for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, about the violent death of a Washington Post columnist at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018. ‘You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that,’ Mr. Trump told the journalist.” — New York Times
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Excuse me, what kind of a question was that? Good God, do you kiss your mother with that mouth? I can’t believe you’d put our esteemed guest, Jason Voorhees, on the spot like that with your horrible, insubordinate, terrible, muckraking, fact-based journalism. That’s no way to treat a gentleman. That’s my friend you’re humiliating. Only I’m allowed to humiliate my friends.
As Congress defied the president and voted to release the Epstein files, Trump welcomed the Saudi crown prince and top business allies for a ritzy White House dinner.
For a long time after the Industrial Revolution, many thinkers believed that automation would lead to us living lives of leisure. Twenty hour work weeks, or even less, and many people wouldn’t need to work at all, but would still live good lives. It never happened. Economists will tell you this is because there’s always […]
The country’s top pharmaceutical lobbying group secretly gave millions to a Republican-aligned dark money group, then won billions in drug-pricing exemptions.
There is marked difference between Jan and the earlier Beats, including the early Beat girlfriends.
It was the morning of 5 July 2024, and I was driving home after a twenty-one-hour day had concluded in Brough Park Leisure Centre in Leek, where the count for the Staffordshire Moorlands parliamentary seat had taken place. I had BBC Radio Stoke on in the car and was listening to the general election news […]
Bonnie Langford knew Mel Bush wasn't treated well on Doctor Who until Chris Chibnall and Russell T Davies brought her back and redeemed her.
This is a thread for comments on how to prepare for bad times. All off-topic comments will be deleted. The thread will be re-upped every Saturday so that resources can build over time. (I’m going to bring this back to the top at least once a month, maybe more, so people can read the old […]