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… as long as they are healthy, well fed and well educated Much of the panic about falling birth rates can be dispelled once we realise that (barring catastrophe) there will almost certainly be more people alive in 2100 than there were in 2000. But what about the distant future? Dean Spears, co-author of After […]

In politics, things just happen. I always hope those caught in the moment make the right choices, so that good might follow. That’s the optimism I hold now. As my three colleagues and I were unexpectedly stripped of the whip last week for voting against government plans to cut Personal Independence Payments, we have to […]

I recently organized a homelessness study tour of Edmonton and Calgary for the Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness. Here’s a ‘top 10 overview of the study tour:https://nickfalvo.ca/homelessness-and-supportive-housing-in-alberta/

Hospital bills are wiped clean, writers win against chatbots, a bill beats the heat, and foreign aid is saved.

Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor returns in 2026 for the epic Doctor Who multimedia saga Circuit Breaker, including audio dramas, books, and more.

Israel’s Parliament voted in favor of annexing the West Bank. Other Democrats interviewed by The Intercept condemned the move.

The post Israeli Parliament Votes for Making Apartheid Official. Fetterman: “I Haven’t Been Following It.” appeared first on The Intercept.

A 21-year-old writer living in Gaza documents her daily life under the U.S.–Israeli program of mass starvation.

The post “Food Has Become a Memory”: My Hunger Diary in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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Exclusive: UCU staff say they have been victims of "bullying and intimidation" by management, as they ballot for another set of walkouts

Exclusively for premium subscribers, listen to David Sirota’s full conversation with Nathan Tankus about the fate of the Federal Reserve.

Exclusively for premium subscribers, listen to David Sirota’s full conversation with Matt Stoller about the fate of the Federal Reserve.

If you haven’t seen this week’s season premiere of South Park, you might be forgiven...

Uber started in 2009. It incurred losses every year until 2023 except for a profit in 2019 which was due to selling subsidiaries in various countries. Numbers before the IPO are difficult to obtain, but it lost 31.5 billion from 2016 to 2022. Let’s assume a loss of equal to funding during the pre-IPO period, […]

Gather round, fellow diners, and feast your eyes upon the meal that sits before me, for I have ascended to a new level of gastronomy. As you gape in awe at my order, I welcome you with open arms as an acolyte ready to worship at the altar of my culinary majesty.

For I, your friend and newly anointed food deity, have forgone the customary side order of french fries and instead ordered a side salad.

You wonder whether the whispers of the personal trainer I often speak of factored into my decision to replace the beloved yet calorie-rich french fry with a bowl of spring mix bathed in balsamic vinaigrette. They did not. Rather, after being yelled at while sweat poured from every pore in my body for an hour straight this morning, I am more than deserving of a serious carb load. Yet willpower is a formidable tool in my belt of dietary supremacy, and, as such, this mélange of leafy greens graces my plate.

The first sitting of the assembly recommended a 'People's Charter', backed a wealth tax and an arms embargo on Israel

To understand real-world ‘non-routine’ decisions and unforeseeable changes in behaviour, ergodic probability distributions are of no avail. In a world full of genuine uncertainty — where real historical time rules the roost — the probabilities that ruled the past are not necessarily those that will rule the future. When we cannot accept that the observations, […]

AIPAC did its second poll this year on potential candidates to challenge members of Congress who have criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The post Is AIPAC Testing the Waters to Primary Rep. Summer Lee? appeared first on The Intercept.

A rotating guest column in which writers reexamine critically unacclaimed works of art.

Weekend at Bernie’s is about being wealthy in America: babes, boats, fraud. According to my mother, Weekend at Bernie’s qualifies as a movie, not a film. In 1989, when the movie hit theaters, it flopped. The critic Roger Ebert said the twist wasn’t funny enough to carry the story forward. He hated it. But what he didn’t see, may he RIP, was that the one-note, unapologetically crass materialism was worth the rental price of seeing it through to the end.

Dear parents,

We are thrilled to have your child on our summer baseball team. We have a few apps we use to help keep things organized around here, so parents, players, and coaches are all on the same page.

First, you’ll need to register for TeamSplinter. Be sure to use the team code, which is W&TGHG7896M. If that doesn’t work, try GIOUGKJHT()(&^^*666. If that doesn’t work, try rebooting your router. Actually, you know what, just ask your kid to show you how to do it.

Next, please make sure you’re on GameUpdater because TeamSplinter won’t display the score. We have state-of-the-art fields, lights, and bleachers, but for some reason, we don’t have functioning scoreboards. After you download GameUpdater, find the name of our team, the name of our opponent, and then enter your child’s date of birth, their blood type, and the locations of any known birthmarks to log in.

As Britain officially labels them terrorists, Palestine Action members speak out from the shadows of a new crackdown.

The post Voices From the Terror List: Palestine Action Members Speak Out After UK Ban appeared first on MintPress News.

Male soldiers routinely sent explicit photographs to female colleagues and stalked them on WhatsApp, the report reveals

From Gaza to New York, displacement is no accident, it’s a weapon. This State of Play episode features Murad Awawdeh on ICE militarization and explores how U.S. and Israeli tactics around forced displacement intersect.

The post How Displacement Became a Tool of US and Israeli Power appeared first on MintPress News.