European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde launched a stinging attack on the economics profession on Wednesday (17 January), accusing analysts of having “blind faith” in their models, which often bear little connection to reality. Speaking at an event entitled “How to Trust Economics” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the ECB chief also suggested […]
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Dear Mister Poe,
At the end of this month, we will be reaching the conclusion of your one-year lease. I wish I could say that I am sorry to see you go.
I’ll admit that I was initially impressed by your literary credentials and surprisingly fine taste in furniture. Due to your patterns of negligent and disruptive behavior, however, I am unable to return your security deposit.
Within the past three months alone, the violations of your lease and our community standards have included:
Rather than adapting to a new political landscape, leaders are laying roadblocks in place, writes Emma DeSouza
An award-winning investigative journalist contextualizes The Lever’s critical reporting on Boeing.
Eight out of ten voters want a shift in direction but fear there is little difference between the two major parties, according to a new poll for Byline Times.
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The documentary “Israelism” explores Israel’s centrality in American Judaism.
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An award-winning investigative journalist contextualizes The Lever’s critical reporting on Boeing.
Evaluation research tends to be method-driven. Everything needs to be apportioned as an ‘input’ or ‘output’, so that the programme itself becomes a ‘variable’, and the chief research interest in it is to inspect the dosage in order to see that a good proper spoonful has been applied … The quasi-exprimental conception is again deficient. […]
John Mitchinson explores why the dark and mysterious yew tree is a symbol of both life and death
The Prime Minister's belated rush to clear his legacy asylum backlog is forcing refugees into destitution on Glasgow's freezing streets, reports Nicola Kelly
An interesting paper: researchers inserted a gene for photosynthesis* into ordinary brewer’s yeast. It worked! The yeast began to photosynthesize, tapping energy from the sun. I’m not generally alarmist about this sort of thing. But this is… maybe very slightly alarming. Why? 1) Baker’s yeast is a single-celled fungus. A fungus, like a mushroom. You […]
When a care home for vulnerable children funded by billionaire West Ham United Chairman David Sullivan, and run by his OnlyFans model reality TV star partner Ampika Pickston, had its registration suspended over safeguarding issues, it led to a strange chain of events and legal threats to this newspaper
If one takes off the dustjacket of the first edition of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things, the clothbound cover bears the foil legend ‘WORK AS IF YOU LIVE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A BETTER NATION.’ Such is the reverence his work receives in his homeland of Scotland, this slogan went on to be chiselled into […]
Fred Wright was a cartoonist for the United Electrical Workers of America (UE), from 1949 until 1984. Wright’s cartoons reflected the daily routines experienced by the working men and women: layoffs, discrimination, income inequality, industrial accidents, union-busting, etc. These realities of the class structure of capitalism were the basis for his artistic and activist work. […]
And 75% of GOP voters think Trump is just fine It’s the other 25% he needs to be concerned about… Former President Donald Trump‘s convincing victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses shows his continued strength among Republicans, and a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds once more that Trump is both viewed nationwide as the candidate whom Republicans and Republican-leaning independents would be most satisfied with as their 2024 nominee as well as the highest-rated contender across a range of other attributes. Three out of four Republican-leaning adults say they would be very or somewhat satisfied with Trump as the GOP’s presidential nominee, compared to 64% who say the same about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and 50% for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Trump’s two remaining rivals in the nominating race. Trump’s advantage tracks closely with the findings about Republicans who were interviewed as part of a more extensive ABC News poll conducted the week before the Iowa caucuses.
Marjorie Taylor Green is a very stable genius: Sitting in here earlier, I was listening to the discussion on jobs and that the whole reason claimed by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is that they want to bring in as many illegal aliens as possible, give them amnesty so they can fill jobs in America,” Greene claimed. “And then they talked about that we have a population growth problem in the United States.” “Well, I think we can all say that if maybe, perhaps, 63 million people weren’t murdered in the womb, we wouldn’t have a population growth problem, would we?” she asked. “That’s not women’s reproductive rights. That’s called abortion. It’s called murder.” Greene blamed abortion rights for slowing population growth. Never say there is no plan: By the way, they are lowering the working age in red states. They’re getting prepared.
