Regular readers will know that I hate the term NAIRU – or Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Rate-of-Unemployment – which is a concoction invented by mainstream economists to maintain unemployment at elevated levels (to keep the working class in its place) and give cover to central banks to run monetary policies that redistribute income from poor to rich. If you…
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Reading guides to Sydney bookshops from the 1970s and 80s, it’s striking just how many there were in the city in those decades. Across the new, remainder, secondhand and specialist bookshops, there were more than you would be able to visit in a day. The 1987 guide by Christine Flynn lists over 100. Now the […]
Nick Turse and Hooman Majd discuss war on Iran and other U.S. conflicts, and Sam Biddle breaks down how AI is being used.
The post Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars appeared first on The Intercept.
Together, we’ll tackle the question facing the country right now: How do you confront a presidency that operates without limits?
Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.
The post Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran appeared first on The Intercept.
The conglomerate has pledged to close all 134 of its locations in the state if lawmakers attempt to rein in its sprawling health business.
Struggling to speak after an operation, one man sets out to build himself a new connection to the world: a radio antenna
- by Aeon Video
You couldn’t love a clone of someone the same way you loved the original. But why? And what does this reveal about love?
- by Idowu Odeyemi
In 2022, Dame Tracey Emin — the art world’s former darling enfant terrible — requested that the government remove one of her artworks from 10 Downing Street. The piece in question, More Passion (2010), was a neon sign previously gifted to the government’s art collection when David Cameron was in office in 2011. It was […]
Trump’s Iran war is the culmination of a decades-long master plan — and only Congress has the power to end it.
~by Sean Paul Kelley Every credit cycle is different: they don’t repeat, but they do rhyme at the end. Phase One: the Expansion The credit cycle begins when intense speculation drives asset prices into bubble territory. This time around AI is the prime mover. AI stocks have clearly inflated, irrationally, and dangerously market averages. Nvidia’s […]
In earlier blog posts, yours truly has discussed the problems of confounding and ‘overcontrolling’ in causal analysis. A good illustration of how attempts to control for additional variables can sometimes worsen rather than improve causal estimates is the so-called M-bias problem. Let me give an example from economics to illustrate the issue. Estimating causal relationships […]
Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it.
The post It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention” appeared first on The Intercept.
Private equity is looking to get its cut of the wartime economy.
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov
Doctor Who star Arthur Darvill likes the idea of Billie Piper being the Sixteenth Doctor and offered some thoughts on the show's future.
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The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves
Every year, the global campaign organised by the Union for International Cancer Control invites people affected by cancer to share their personal experiences as part of World Cancer Day. These stories provide an important human perspective on the realities of cancer. They help build solidarity, encourage early diagnosis, and ensure the voices of patients, survivors, families and carers are heard around the world.
Want to make the most of your study time? Learn to work with your brain, not against it, by using these smart techniques
- Video by TED-Ed
When a weed-infused treat put me in a psychological tailspin, it reshaped what I knew about fear
- by Ken Cunningham