In Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 blockbuster Snowpiercer, scientists release aerosols into the sky in a last-ditch attempt to stop global warming. However, the plan catastrophically backfires, plunging Earth into a new ice age and killing most life on the planet. When I first saw the film, I remember thinking: “Thank God no one would be crazy enough …
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I’ve written for Compact about the latest showdown between the EU and Hungary, which resulted in Viktor Orbán finally dropping his veto to the EU’s latest financial aid package for Ukraine.
I’ve written for UnHerd about Germany’s astonishing fall from grace — from economic powerhouse and unquestioned European hegemon to economic basket case and geopolitical laughing stock.
In my latest article for Compact, I look at the violence spreading like wildfire across the Middle East, which took a particularly worrying turn after Sunday’s deadly attack on an American base in Jordan, which claimed the lives of three US soldiers — and brought us one step closer to the terrifying scenario of an all-out war …
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When COVID struck Rebecca Saltzman’s family, the virus unmasked a life-changing discovery: her husband and two of their kids had genetic heart disease. The kind where people drop dead. As their healthy wife and mother, Saltzman had a new role too—guiding her family through what Susan Sontag called the Kingdom of the Sick. In this column, she’ll explore the anthropological strangeness of this new place, the mysteries of the body, and how facing death distills life into its purest form: funny, terrifying, and sublime.
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No more Mr. Nice Guys It’s clear from clips from Trump rally “The Daily Show” and “The Good Liars” that MAGAstan is a peculiar country with a history wildly divergent from our own and worthy of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. Those clips are selectively chosen for maximum comedic effect, of course. But what those clips drive home is that what many Americans think they know about recent events is not just bizarre but harmful to their futures. and their children’s. With the Supreme Court this week aiding and abetting Donald “91 Counts” Trump’s effort to ensure that justice delayed is justice denied, Greg Sargent believes those of us committed to truth, justice and the American way must double down on ensuring that even MAGAstan residents know that it is their rights Trump means to trample. Consider Liz Cheney’s response to the court’s decision to hear Trump’s presidential immunity appeal: It is our right as citizens to know whether the man (some of us) will be voting for this fall is a felon indicted by and convicted by juries of his peers, everyday Americans like the residents of MAGAstan.
Palestine's football team is a tale of resilience amid deliberate Israeli attacks. MintPress investigates the global push to suspend Israel from international sports, exposing the harsh realities faced by Palestinian players advocating for justice on and off the field.
The post Goalposts and Gunfire: Israel’s Deliberate Attacks on Palestinian Football and Its Players appeared first on MintPress News.
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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Superman, The Rookie, Always Sunny/Abbott Elementary, Kevin Conroy/Mark Hamill, The Boys/Donald Trump & more!
So, the American military can’t make its enlistment quotas:
According to widely-reported leaks the US Army missed its recruiting target by an enormous amount in FY23 and will shrink by some 24,000 people going into 2024 – over 5% of its end strength. Apparently most of the positions being cut are already empty.
It’s no mystery why this is happening – most of the recruiting crisis is attributable to a catastrophic drop in accessions among white men. This is a huge demographic which disproportionately seeks to join the combat arms, so the impact to the Army’s combat power is disproportionately large even in comparison to those bleak numbers.
The result of the 2024 general election in Pakistan was considered a foregone conclusion. With former Prime Minister Imran Khan sentenced to prison on spurious charges, most pundits didn’t give his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) much of a chance. After all, many of its political heavyweights and even supporters in the media were forced to […]
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Ryan Grim speaks to Stuart Reid about his new book, “The Lumumba Plot.”
The post Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War appeared first on The Intercept.
Fed resources offer a view of women in economic history, from their participation in the labor force to their leadership in the economics field.
I’m doing a few solo poetry shows this year, starting this month with Chester, Lincoln & Scarborough. I’ll be in Falmouth, Totnes & Launceston in April. And Belfast & Dublin in October. If you fancy coming along to a show, you can get tickets here: https://brianbilston.com/events/
If Capital One is allowed to acquire Discover, it’ll gain access to a government loophole allowing it to raise prices and reduce competition.
With one word economics lurched into fantasy Steve Keen Human society is energy blind. Like a fish in water, it takes for granted the existence…
As Rishi Sunak talks of 'mob rule', political and media discussion of the violence in Gaza appears to be triggering an increase in hostilities towards Muslims here in the UK
As Australia’s net zero transition threatens to stall, rooftop solar could help provide the power we need Anna Bruce, Baran Yildiz, Dani Alexander and Mike…
Ecological economics and modern monetary economics need each other Steven Hail Here are three things that ecological economists often do not get quite right about…
Rethinking banking as a public franchise Offering economists a more accurate metaphor – Tom Foster Australians are very familiar with the concept of a franchise…
A future threat has become a present reality and time is against us Jamie Morgan This short article is extracted from, and summarises, much of…