As Ed Davey's Party gathers for its annual conference, Neal Lawson asks whether the party can still prosper in an increasingly illiberal political era
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The president describes a cartoonish fantasy of a George Soros-backed criminal network. If only the left were that good at collective defense.
The post Trump’s Idea of the Criminal Left Is a Fiction. A Coordinated Defense Against His Fascism Shouldn’t Be. appeared first on The Intercept.
“It feels like there’s this river running underneath my whole life.
It’s always there; I just have to step into it.”
Too many promising breakthroughs in women’s health research stall out due to a lack of funding. I’m trying to remove the roadblock for just one.
With apologies to Three Dog Night.
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In the wake of recent events, we feel it’s time to speak up. We’ve heard your calls for a statement on the subject of Jeremiah, a bullfrog we’ve long referred to as our friend. Your comments, your direct messages, and your anthrax threats have all prompted us to take action.
Last week, Jeremiah the Bullfrog was convicted of severely harmful crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. Please believe us when we tell you that we were as shocked as you to learn of what could at best be described as a lapse in judgment, and at worst as a psychotic and unfrogivable series of misdeeds.
We initially kept our silence to keep from shifting the spotlight away from the victims and to allow justice to run its course. Now that the trial has ended in a conviction, we feel it’s time to share a truth that has troubled us for a long time:
Jeremiah was, in fact, a mere acquaintance.
~by Sean Paul Kelley In the aftermath of the 1905 Russo-Japanese War, US president Teddy Roosevelt brought together negotiators from Russia and Japan to hammer out a peace. This was the first time the US was ever seen as an ‘honest broker’ in international relations. In 1919 President Wilson sailed to Paris with his 14 […]
The British working class are politically homeless. Their traditional party, founded by the trade unions, has turned its back on the people who built this country, and without whom it could not operate. In its place have emerged a string of opportunists claiming to be the voice of the average punter, but whose credentials just […]
What does an orgasm feel like? From soft furry pompoms to buzzing teeth, these women describe a deeply embodied experience
- Directed by Bronwen Parker-Rhodes
ADHD is typically thought to be wired into the brain early. But many cases may be better seen as products of digital life
- by Paul Kudlow, Karline Treurnicht Naylor & Elia Abi-Jaoude
The role of the conscious observer has posed a stubborn problem for quantum measurement. Phenomenology offers a solution
- by Steven French
Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don't.
The post What’s Wrong with Having an AI Friend? appeared first on Nautilus.
These snakes are among the few animals that can kill the regal felines
The post The Lion Versus the Cobra appeared first on Nautilus.
As Corbyn-Sultana tensions explode into the public arena, a new group is mobilising members to demand a ‘genuine say’ in the new party's direction
This month’s Reform UK conference held in Birmingham revealed the bizarre nature of the party’s inner workings and policy message. From the surprise appearance of Lucy Connolly to Andrea Jenkyn’s Eurovision main character moment, the conference seemed more like a fever dream than an event led by a supposed government in waiting. Yet nothing was […]
Utkarsh Somaiya, Caspar Siegert and Benjamin Kingsmore Climate change creates material economic and financial risks which central banks need to understand to ensure monetary and financial stability. Their interest in climate change has therefore skyrocketed, with almost one third of central bank speeches in 2023 referencing climate change. Central banks are typically responsible for ensuring … Continue reading The right tools for the job? How effectively can central banks support the transition to net zero?
America’s real-life Lorax says the climate apocalypse might be averted after all.
The purported strength of New Classical macroeconomics lies in its firm anchorage in preference-based microeconomics, particularly the decisions made by inter-temporal utility-maximising, ‘forward-looking’ individuals. To some, however, this strength has come at too high a price. The quasi-religious insistence that macroeconomics must have microfoundations — without providing ontological or epistemological justification for this requirement — […]
“President Trump said networks giving him negative coverage may deserve to have their licenses revoked, ramping up threats administration officials have made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.” — Axios
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I really like free speech. I love it, some might say. I love how I get to say anything I want and it’s totally fine, no problem. I don’t like when you do that though. I only like when I do it, or when people do it in a way I told them to do it. That’s when I really like free speech. In fact, I like free speech so much that I’ve decided it’s just mine now—not yours.
I like so many things about free speech. I like that my friends on TV can say they want to kill homeless people and then keep showing up for work like nothing happened.
StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.
The post The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents appeared first on The Intercept.
Low-rating cable channel, Sky News Australia, has taken time out from celebrating the cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel to demand that children’s TV show, Sesame Street, be the next show on the chopping block as they feel the character Ernie, an... Read More ›
In a hearing that formally killed the bill, one lawmaker called it an “attempt to subvert our Constitution’s right to free speech.”
The post Democrats Slam Proposal to Give Marco Rubio the Power to Revoke Passports appeared first on The Intercept.
Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their health data.