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“[Secretary of War] Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say… Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny.” — New York Times
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Can we all calm down for a minute? It appears my command to take no prisoners, exterminate all traces of life, and torch any semblance of international law has been misinterpreted. You shouldn’t rush to conclusions until you have all the facts.
Just because I said “Blow up the boat and everyone on it” doesn’t mean I literally wanted to do those things. Ever heard of a rhetorical device? The media can’t handle nuance or irony.
You have to understand, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are a lighthearted bunch. We joke around. We do bits. The Situation Room is DC’s Comedy Cellar. Everyone is cracking wise. So when you hear that I ordered an unprovoked attack based on dubious intelligence, you shouldn’t take anything out of context.
Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies hasn't written the 2026 Christmas Special script yet, but he does have a three-word tease for it.
Documents show Jeffrey Epstein was not cast out after his child sex-crime conviction but remained embedded in a confidential inner circle of Silicon Valley founders with strategic influence on the modern world, including Musk, Bezos, Brin, Page, Gates and Zuckerberg
Another director of the agency’s drug evaluation office is stepping down amid the Trump administration’s push for accelerated approval timelines.
With the health care crisis spiraling out of control, a pivotal majority of Americans now support a single-payer system.
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
India’s infrastructural turn is no longer just a national story—it’s a global prototype.
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In the final pages of 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers, author Keith Cameron reveals that the Manic Street Preachers’ most recent album, 2025’s Critical Thinking, provisionally had another title: Dialectics. Eventually deemed too pretentious by the band — although Critical Thinking takes some beating in this regard — […]
Ed Leamer transformed economists’ understanding of empirical evidence with his landmark 1988 paper, Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics. In it, he challenged the profession’s fixation on ‘statistical significance’, describing much empirical research as “measuring with a rubber ruler.” Leamer’s central claim was that complex econometric models depend heavily on hidden, subjective decisions made […]
‘A work of art, a home, and a place of worship’ – the striking earthen castles at the centre of Batammariba cultural identity
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We all make wrong decisions, but if you’re a ‘maximiser’ rather than a ‘satisficer’, the regret hurts all the more
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In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears
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Donald Scott was killed in his home by an ad hoc team of raiding cops who were looking for marijuana — but the larger prize may have been his 200-acre Malibu ranch.
The post Episode Eight: Legalized Takings appeared first on The Intercept.
In New York City, it was almost three months until I spotted a Palestinian flag in someone’s window. When I did, I took a picture of it and sent it to a friend: finally. Since moving here in the summer I’ve thrown myself into the city’s leftwing organising scene — one that has been predominantly […]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, September 2025 – today (December 3, 2025), which shows that the Australian economy slowed to 0.4 per cent (from 0.6 per cent) in the September-quarter 2025. At the current annual growth rate, unemployment is predicted to rise further,…
I heard a rumour that London IT professionals have selected the pub where they will meet when the internet goes down. It is apocalyptic thinking, perhaps, but it also feels plausible. Though the internet feels permanent, stable and sufficiently distributed to seem impervious to target, this infrastructure that underpins our daily work and life is […]
“Quibbling over the semantics of ‘double-tap’ doesn’t change the reality that the strike was a summary execution of men clinging to the remains of a boat.”
The post Department of War Disputes Second Attack on Boat Strike Survivors Was a “Double-Tap” appeared first on The Intercept.
For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years.
Again and again, I’d heard from young people who lamented the astronomical and ever-rising cost of art school. For many college-level art programs, the total cost to undergraduates is now over $100,000 a year. I hope we can all agree that charging students $400,000 for a four-year degree in visual art is objectively absurd. And this prohibitive cost has priced tens of thousands of potential students out of even considering undertaking such an education.
For years, I mentioned this issue to friends in and out of the art world, and everyone, without exception, agreed that the system was broken. Even friends I know who teach at art schools agreed that the cost was out of control, and these spiraling costs were contributing to the implosion of many undergraduate and postgraduate art programs.
The war powers legislation would prohibit Trump from launching “hostilities within or against Venezuela” without congressional approval.
The post Bipartisan House Resolution Seeks to Block Trump War With Venezuela appeared first on The Intercept.