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Imagine yourself in space, looking down on our world and yet unable to return any time soon. Consider it our bad luck, in fact, that Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were the two Americans sent to the International Space Station, 250 miles above this planet, for a few days in June and now find themselves stuck there until perhaps next February. If only it had been Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. If only indeed. Of course, in some sense, both of them are already in deep space, far beyond where Wilmore and Williams find themselves. And if you don’t believe me, just ask any dog or cat from Springfield, Ohio. Here’s the truly sad thing, though: if Donald Trump... Read more

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Project 2025 wants you caught by surprise Streets in low-lying areas here are already flooded and Hurricane Helene isn’t even here yet. Public schools are closed preemtively. Emergency preparations are underway. But at least we had warnings as close as your TV or computer. A writer some time back recounted an airplane conversation in which his seatmate remarked that the great thing about computers was that you could always turn them off. Considering that they and thousands of others were sitting in aluminum tubes in the air traffic pattern high above a major city, and that the only thing keeping them from colliding and dying was FAA air traffic computers, the writer was pretty sure he didn’t want them turned off. * Project 2025 wants a lot of government turned off.

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your embarrassingly eager interest in our job opening and for getting to know us over the course of twelve rounds of interviews.

We regret to inform you that we have selected another, far more suitable candidate for the role—a starchy ten-pound sack of Canadian Yukon Gold potatoes, straight from our local Stop & Shop.

While we were impressed with your experience, we all agreed that your energy levels were a bit much for our taste. Your demeanor came across as eager, approachable, and ambitious, while we tend to prefer candidates who are more down-to-earth, dusty, and brooding.

It is potentially worth noting that the hiring manager has a personal attachment to potatoes due to a prized family gratin dauphinois recipe. We are confident this has nothing to do with the decision.

Given our status as a fast-moving startup, we want to ensure that each new addition to the team helps us achieve our goal of increasing our revenue by 500 percent every two weeks. The sack of potatoes, covered in unsightly green sprouts, has proven it understands the importance of growth.

Kingspan was slammed as 'deeply entrenched and persistently dishonesty' in the Grenfell Inquiry but has been kept on in 'sustainable' investment portfolios

To the Editors: In his otherwise excellent essay on the “tragic flaw” in Shakespeare’s tragedies [“No Comfort,” NYR, June 6], Fintan O’Toole falls into the all too common trap of attributing this critical idea to Aristotle. But the words Aristotle uses, hamartia and hamartēma, often mistranslated as “flaw,” do not refer to a character’s psychology […]

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The Reform club claims to be politically neutral, yet, according to its website 'remains true to its founding principles. In this spirit, it continues to be a place for progressive thinking, social change and the championing of reform'

Extreme weather means 10-year-old Mogi must choose between the nomadic life on the Mongolian steppe and moving to the city

- by Aeon Video

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Without the neutrino, the Universe might be an empty void. But this inscrutable particle isn’t giving up its secrets easily

- by Corey S Powell

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Neuroscientists are demystifying this in-between state, uncovering its role in memory processing and its creative potential

- by Célia Lacaux

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Maura Finkelstein was terminated by Muhlenberg College for an Instagram repost.

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James Duffy and James Sanders Understanding a payment’s journey around the globe can be difficult. As the operator of the UK’s high-value payment system (CHAPS), the Bank is all too familiar with this challenge. By leveraging the benefits of the newly introduced ISO 20022 standard for messaging, we have devised a new methodology to identify … Continue reading Payments without borders: using ISO 20022 to identify cross-border payments in CHAPS →

The inside story of how we uncovered smoking-gun audio exposing the secret roots of Project 2025.

This week, the Australian government (Labor) did the unthinkable. It approved three thermal coal mine expansions in NSW – the Environment Minister approved the expansion of the Whitehaven Coal mine until 2044, the Mount Pleasant mine until 2048 and the Ravensworth mine until 2032. For a government that claims to hold superior ‘green’ credentials to…

Penny Wong responds to Australia’s questions about Israel on SBS News, a US veteran speaks to his experience in Iraq 20 years ago, Israel media displays astonishing commentary, Francesca Albanese shares a must-watch documentary. The children of Gaza suffer beyond our belief and the president of Senegal speaks about the history  of Palestinian oppression at Continue reading »

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I know you don’t want to watch a whole Trump speech. It’s very, very hard. But he’s escalating and you should probably hear a little bit of it: There’s more of the same. He was all amped up this morning, obviously drank a six pack of diet coke already or Dr. Ronny gave him a little pick-me-up. He’s getting worse. Politico reports: Donald Trump was meeting privately in mid-September with one of his oldest friends, Steve Wynn, when the casino mogul and Republican mega-donor delivered the former president a blunt warning: You’re off message, and it isn’t helping. Trump had been distracted, in Wynn’s view. The former president at the time was promoting a conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s cats and dogs in Ohio, among other things. To drive home his point, Wynn showed Trump polling and suggested the former president would be better off focusing on policy issues where Republicans see his opponent, Kamala Harris, as vulnerable, according to two people briefed on the meeting and granted anonymity to describe it. The meeting underscored a key point of tension inside the Trump campaign.

“so-called sexual crimes…” This was out there. North Carolina Republicans made him their Lt. Governor because of it, not in spite of it. “Child-like Oppositional Disorder” describes so many people on the right. And yes, a fair number on the left as well, but fewer than there used to be.