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With the buzz on this weekend's adventure continuing to grow, here's the latest set of images released for Doctor Who Season 2 Ep. 2: "Lux."

The president’s reckless tariffs are designed to goad his opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class.

They are too often ignored, yet sex differences affect the kind of trauma people experience and the effect it has on them

- by Klára Hanáková

Read at Psyche

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance

- by Zachary B Hancock

Read at Aeon

Zarina Zabrisky speaks exclusively to Ukrainian officers from the 'Elves' unit about how Putin's agents waged a decades-long hybrid war against their country

For several years now, yours truly has been teaching an introductory economics course every fall for future social studies teachers. Alongside a few of my own books, Klas Eklund’s Vår ekonomi (Our Economy) is also on the reading list. The book was released in its 16th revised edition in December 2024—an impressive feat and in itself […]

Anniversaries of the Hillsborough tragedy call to mind historian Lucy Noakes’ description of grief as a ‘disruptive emotion’ with the ability to ‘transform our sense of self’. Writing about the home front during the world wars, Noakes explains how authorities, anxious about domestic unrest, sought to discourage this disruptive emotion, instead promoting stoic self-control as […]

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Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago. Its great advantage was its sharp deviation from classical liberalism. Even though it paid tribute to liberal thinkers, neoliberalism shared neither their method nor their concept of the market. Today, we are on the cusp of another, equally profound, ideological innovation. Unlike […]

The post NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM – Project Syndicate op-ed & video appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Australia’s number one Donald Trump impersonator, Peter Dutton, has wheeled his son out in front of the press to illustrate the difficulty young people face in buying their first investment property. ”Times are tough and my son is a classic... Read More ›

An explanation for the abundance of super-Earths

The post Planet Nurseries Are Smaller Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus.

President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations – including his family business – at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees. Watch The Grayzone’s special video report on Noboa’s well-documented ties to transnational drug cartels here. On April 13, 2025, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council proclaimed incumbent President Daniel Noboa the winner of the presidential runoff—a result that his […]

The post Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador appeared first on The Grayzone.

Doctor Who Season 2 Ep. 2: "Lux" is the most gleefully nuts episode to date; an exhilarating and profound defining story for the Disney+ era.

So, basically, the Supremes ruled 9-0 that Trump had to obey a lower court when they court said to return the hairdresser Trump sent to prison in El-Salvador, who is not a gang member as Trump claimed.

This case is wrong in every way:

It’s a cast-iron relationship: the more unequal a society becomes, the better the far right does. Here’s why. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian  13th April 2025 “He’s really gone and done it this time. Now everyone can see what a disaster he is.” How many times have we heard this about Donald Trump? […]

People think of Applebee’s as a safe suburban fixture, a place where people go for an innocuous meal at a reasonable price—but strap in, jagoff, because this Applebee’s is not like other Applebee’s. Instead of license plates and joyful Americana, our walls are festooned with divorce certificates and failed attempts at taxidermy.

Most of the animals are dead, at least.

Other Applebee’s branches have sports on TV. So do we—assuming you consider Czechoslovakian pig-throwing a sport. Those guys can really chuck a hog. If you don’t like it, why don’t you just shuffle across the parking lot to Chili’s? They have all the anodyne comforts your dainty bourgeois sensibilities require, like barstools that aren’t eight feet high.

That’s right, our patrons like it when their feet dangle.

Our servers have tattoos that didn’t go right, medically speaking. They’re bleeding and stuff. But once they heal, you’re going to love looking at them, assuming you like seeing shamrocks beating up non-Irish flowers. It sounds harsh, but the flowers had gotten real mouthy with the shamrocks earlier, insulting the clovers’ cousins and whatnot.

Check out the new image gallery released for Showrunner Russell T. Davies' Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who S02E02: "Lux."

A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists.

The post Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

A small group of “super investors” is quietly fuelling the oil industry’s abandonment of environmental goals

My latest book is called This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel. It’s the story behind the worst movie to have ever won the Academy Award. Have you not heard of this movie?

Let me tell you about it.

But where to begin? Should we begin with the fabled “curse” that afflicted nearly everyone associated with this notorious film, including the gaffers and all three lighting technicians, not to mention the poor thespian pooch, Charlie Boy, the first of two canines to play “Bones the Blind Dog”?