A shrub meant to end hunger now chokes Kenya’s farmlands. It’s a parable of how visions of progress can outgrow their promises
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Cell phone photos can help in recovery efforts
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Saving it involved destroying it twice
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Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Green Party, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse – and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project
We’re thrilled to introduce Maya Schaeffer, one of the newest members elected to the Drupal Association Board, with her term beginning 1 November 2025.
Maya is the lead organizer of EvolveDigital & EvolveDrupal, where she has been instrumental in rebuilding the in-person side of the community post-pandemic, connecting over 1,000 attendees (40% from outside the traditional Drupal space) across summits in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Atlanta, NYC, and Boston (upcoming June 2025). These events highlight the demand for cross-functional community spaces that showcase Drupal’s relevance across industries.
In her lifetime, Shulamith Firestone, an art school graduate and leading figure in New York’s second-wave feminist movement, published just two books. Her first, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970), was a blistering theoretical salvo published when Firestone was only twenty-five. Amongst its more radical propositions, Firestone called for ‘ectogenesis’, the […]
Where once honour, public service, even a sense of historical duty could command respect, today those values are dimmed in comparison to the pursuit of material position, argues Clive Lewis MP
Big corporations and lobby groups are putting their cash behind the rise of Nigel Farage's party
Over the weekend, I was a presenter at a Fabian’s Society meeting which sought input on ‘alternative taxation policies’ under the general tenet of the need for the Australian government to raise revenue to ensure a socially just society. The other presenter was John Quiggin and I think we provided a good complementarity for the…
Three upstart candidates have bold plans to win back working-class voters and fix the Democratic Party.
THE 2026 SOCIAL JUSTICE KITTENS CALENDAR HAS ARRIVED! It’s 2026, and the Social Justice Kittens are back with twelve inspiring new months, each one a stern, colorful reminder that while you enjoy a life of unearned, privileged comfort, their battle for justice never ends! Despite their advanced empathic skills, evolved intellects and permanent stance on…
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In 1936 Dale Carnegie published his seminal self-help work, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” As a book dedicated purely to interpersonal relations I read it in my late-teens early-twenties and took a few damn good lessons away from it. But, I’m not writing today to discuss Dale Carnegie. I’m here to write the […]
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 07, 2025 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why does the Trump regime want to disappear unaccompanied children? Heather Cox Richardson, September 2, 2025 [Letters from an American] In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, […]
Ticketmaster’s new trick, a dirty map fight, private jets go dark, and more from The Lever this week.
Politicians, like New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, like to say that kicking healthy people off Medicaid saves money. That's bullshit.
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. Now, Reagan certainly was no authority when it came to economics, but in this case, I think Trump could have learned a thing or two from him …
AP’s Israel-Palestine news director, Josef Federman, has spun data to minimize the Gaza death count. Leaked documents show he appeared on a panel aimed at assisting “Israel’s ability to effectively portray its narrative” during a gov’t-sponsored propaganda conference chaired by an ex-IDF official who legitimized killing journalists. The Israeli massacre of five journalists in broad daylight on August 24, 2025 at Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis city prompted a sternly worded statement to the Israeli government from the Associated […]
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Laut einer Regierungsantwort soll Friedrich Merz über 12.500 Euro für Styling-Dienstleistungen ausgegeben haben – in einer Phase, in der viele Bürger mit steigenden Lebenshaltungskosten zu kämpfen haben. Die Ausgaben wurden aus Parteigeldern gedeckt. Die Ausgaben für Styling in dieser Höhe sind aus mehreren Gründen ein politisches und öffentliches Ärgernis und ein klassisches Beispiel für eine […]
Plus, how social media shortens your life, a reclusive billionaire’s private bridge, and the Biden legislation that quietly fueled mass foreclosures.
We tend to think of prejudice in negative terms, but there are positive prejudices as well. I was just telling a friend that I’d trust a random Sikh more than any other religion/ethnicity. Just seem to have a very high proportion of good people. Also think well of the diaspora Chinese, as a rule, perhaps […]
Solidarity Melbourne Branch Committee statement
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