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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson’s work, particularly in Why Nations Fail (2012), is widely recognized within new institutional economics for its argument that inclusive political and […]

Watering N.C. with the blood of rescuers. Or something. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell warned that disinformation spread about Hurricane Helene relief in North Carolina would spawn threats against government workers and impede rescue and relief efforts. She was right (Washington Post): LAKE LURE, N.C. — Federal emergency response personnel on Saturday had employees operating in hard-hit Rutherford County, N.C., stop working and move to a different area because of concerns over “armed militia” threatening government workers in the region, according to an email sent to federal agencies helping with response in the state. Around 1 p.m. Saturday, an official with the U.S. Forest Service, which is supporting recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sent an urgent message to numerous federal agencies warning that “FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately.

Exclusive MintPress access reveals the CIA’s efforts to promote homosexuality and normalize relations with Israel in Yemen through a vast spy network involving blackmail and sectarian manipulation.

The post Exclusive: Yemen Uncovers Massive CIA and Mossad Spy Ring Embedded in Pro-Democracy NGOs appeared first on MintPress News.

While the East Coast faces devastation from two hurricanes, media coverage turns toward Israel’s conflicts and U.S. election campaigns, leaving residents wondering why foreign aid flows while disaster relief falls short.

The post Natural Disasters vs War Crimes – American Media Has Chosen appeared first on MintPress News.

There are already Trump AR-15s Politico reporters watched 20 Trump rallies and, to their credit, reported what they heard. Donald Trump is still preaching the dark “weird shit” of American carnage eight years after his inaugural speech. Rapists and murderers are everywhere, and “animals,” “stone cold killers,” the “worst people,” and the “enemy from within.” The monsters are due on Maple Street. Trump is one Grade A paranoiac, and he’s likely getting a lot of this from Discount Goebbels. Haitians, Venezuelans, Mexicans, and Chinese immigrants are targets. And you too, Dear Reader (Heather Cox Richardson): And on Sunday, October 13, Trump made the full leap to authoritarianism, calling for using the federal government not only against immigrants, but also against his political opponents.

Lords reform bill is "114 years too little, too late" Scottish National Party says as Commons prepares to debate scrapping hereditary peers

A couple of weeks ago yours truly had a post up here where Julia Rohrer discussed possible alternatives to RCTs for making causal claims: It is instructive to consider cases in which most people readily accept causal claims in the absence of randomized experiments. Nowadays, few people doubt the effects of tobacco smoking on lung […]

In 2009, the ‘balloon boy’ incident captivated American television audiences – what did it reveal about profit-driven news?

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Mental health campaigns place huge trust in people’s ability to act as therapists. But when should professionals step in?

- by Aaron Neiman

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No one enjoys waiting in stuffy buildings or on congested roadways, but there’s an upside to our fellowship of frustration

- by Joel Cox

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The Prime Minister reached the milestone as his popularity plummets in the aftermath of a freebies scandal and Sue Gray's resignation. But has it all been bad?

A Home Office report on October 10 found that nearly 40% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the UK target Muslims

Over the eight decades following the end of World War II, the US has taken part in dozens of land wars, large and small. The outcomes have ranged from comprehensive victory to humiliating defeat, but all have received extensive coverage. By contrast, the US Navy’s admission of defeat in its longest and most significant campaign […]

Sometimes one journalistic piece captures the problem facing those who are trying to change the economics narrative and promote an alternative framing that is ground in the reality of the system rather than one that serves to reinforce the dominant ideology of the elites. The opinion article by Larry Elliot in yesterday’s UK Guardian (October…