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The place: Washington. The date: April 14, 1954. The question before the Security Board of the Atomic Energy Commission: whether Dr Robert Oppenheimer may safely be allowed continued access to secret information. Oppenheimer is testifying for the third day running. He is under cross-examination (the official record uses this term) by Roger Robb, counsel for […]

A revitalised Europe wide white supremacist movement is growing in the UK, gaining recruits through social media and online gaming

Refugees from Chinese oppression in Britain also believe the Government's crackdown on face masks at demonstrations opens them up to reprisals

A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.

When Shane Gillis performed his monologue on Saturday Night Live last month, he opened with a joke about why he was previously fired from the show. “Don’t look that up, please,” he says with a smile. “It’s fine, don’t even worry about it.”

If you do look it up, you’ll come across Seth Simons’s reporting for the Los Angeles Times, which details Shane’s long history of using slurs against Jewish, Chinese, and Black people. In one podcast episode, Shane shares his enthusiastic support for Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist militant organization that promotes political violence. In another, Shane says, “If the blood rushes to my head, all my blood’s racist. I do have racist blood.”

AIPAC has become the key force against progressives in Democratic primaries, but a new coalition is seeking to protect the party’s left flank.

The post The Left Is Finally Building a Response to AIPAC appeared first on The Intercept.

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Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the…

Karam Bales delves into a conference with ties to a Russian backed anti-gender network

Oppenheimer

There’s been a half-finished copy of Robert Caro’s biography of LBJ on your bedside table for the past five years. But maybe THIS year, you’ll finally get around to finishing it. You’re also likely a white male between the ages of thirty-nine and sixty-five.

The Dark Knight

You were a psychology major in college, hence your fascination with the Joker’s “dog chasing cars” MO. There’s so much meaning hiding behind the nihilism, you insist. The film’s existential dread is reflected in the WHY SO SERIOUS? T-shirt you bought off Redbubble.

Insomnia

There’s a Scandinavian darkness in your soul. You eat most dinners alone to the sound of Bon Iver before retiring to your hard, non–memory foam mattress. Either that or you said Insomnia in the interest of not seeming too basic by going with Oppenheimer or Dark Knight.

As a child, the Library of Birmingham was my favourite place in the world. My mum, seeing my best efforts to gather up five or six books at any one time, had to enforce a strict ‘only take what you can carry’ rule. With the two books my little arms could manage I’d breeze through […]

Sunak's Government has been called to face a UN committee over the shocking conditions faced by some disabled people after years of austerity

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Kimmel/Trump, Ryan Gosling, John Cena/Oscars, Doctor Who, True Detective, Peacemaker, Zack Snyder, and more!

‘You prefer to dine at some nobody’s house!’ How an ancient Roman responded to the deep sting of being snubbed

- by Aeon Video

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Under the guise of empowerment and freedom, politicians and business are offloading lifethreatening risk to individuals

- by Suzanne Schneider

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To truly grip us, philosophy must engage with the practical and animalistic. It’s time to stop turning its nose up at smell

- by Simon Hajdini

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The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 4th March 2024 There’s a flaw in the plan. It’s not a small one: it is an Earth-sized hole in our calculations. To keep pace with the global demand for food, crop […]