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The story behind Fiat Socialism By Carlos García Hernández “It’s not three, it’s four” – I remember distinctly when I had that thought. Intuition hit me. I was writing A …

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The newest Doctor Who #WhoSpy image may or may not be teasing a "Tuesday Meeting" at 1pm UK time. If we're invited, what should we expect?

Right wing disinformation is starting to run wild and it’s very dangerous It’s bad and getting worse. And among the worst are Donald Trump and his misbegotten offspring: Within minutes of circulating the first images of the horrific Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel, the Right Wing disinformation apparatus sprung into action. Right Wing accounts began spreading false information to score political points against President Biden and the Democrats. Donald Trump and the other Republican candidates are weaponizing the information as it spreads like wildfire across social media. Fast-moving, real-time events are the most fertile ground for disinformation and propaganda. The public is tuned in, the traditional media hasn’t yet had time to get all the facts, and people are sharing information without context or confirmation. The problem worsened after platforms conceded to wave the white flag against stopping disinformation. Elon Musk encouraged his 159 million followers to get their opinions from an account that has spread anti-Semitic disinformation.

I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.

When Angus Deaton arrived in the US four decades ago, he imagined he had something to say about economic inequality and how to tackle it that Americans might want to hear. Instead, the great economic minds of the time told him to shut up … As Deaton describes in his unsparing new book, Economics in […]

“Bleaching” Black residents from S.C.’s 1st District Bishop William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign regularly invokes the fusion movement that allowed formerly enslaved citizens (men, anyway) joined by white allies to vote and win public office in the post-Civil War South. Nineteenth-century Supreme Court rulings backing white backlash to fusion politics set the stage, Politico Magazine reports, for “the American slide toward autocracy.” The backlash to Barack Obama’s 2008 election provided the jolt of momentum autocrats needed, particularly in the former Confederate states, for resurrecting the not-yet-cold corpse of Jim Crow. Georgetown University law professor Sheryll Cashin recounts recent history with which Hullabaloo readers are already familiar, plus Alabama’s recent insistence on defying court rulings to preserve white dominance of the state’s congressional delegation: In 2022, a three-judge district court found that the state’s proposed redistricting map diluted minority votes, in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

U.S. sends carrier group to eastern Mediterranean Israel formally declared war on Hamas on Sunday after a surprise attack that killed over 700. The Israelis are massing troops for a ground invasion. The U.S. State Department said in a statement this morning that at least nine Americans died in the Hamas attack. NBC News: “This is Israel’s 9/11. Not since 1973 has there been such a catastrophic intelligence failure in Israel,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, who worked for 26 years for the CIA, where he specialized in counterterrorism, the Middle East and South Asia. Israel’s intelligence services have long been seen as some of the most capable in the world, with an array of human intelligence, eavesdropping and other technical means blanketing the West Bank and Gaza. “It is almost inconceivable how they missed this,” said Polymeropoulos.  As with early reporting from any war zone, statistics and accounts will be revised. Be careful where you get your news and note reporters’ sources.

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Siân Berry, former Co-Leader of the Green Party, is hoping to be Caroline Lucas' successor as MP for Brighton Pavilion

We do not instruct our students well in the art of crafting papers, possibly because there are so many idiosyncratic elements. Editing or refereeing manuscripts teaches us what distinguishes a well-crafted paper from an ordinary one. We should take on these chores not only because they are public services but also because they are the […]

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The Lever speaks with Nikhil Goyal, former senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, about his new book on the American education system.

The party has adopted a more centralised approach as it steps away from potential deals with other parties

As an autistic person, this is how I draw the line between adapting in a way that’s good for me and simple conformity

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Anarchy in the UK – and beyond. The historian Sophie Scott-Brown on why liberal democracies could benefit from anarchism

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Finance fraud is not a deviation from an essentially rational system but a window onto the reality-distortion of markets

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That appalling pun highlights a problem with economic modellers in general: the treatment of time as a discrete rather than a continuous phenomenon. Though there are (not enough!) exceptions, the habit amongst both Neoclassical and Post-Keynesians economists is to model an economic variable now as depending on other variables one year in the past (and … Continue reading "I’m not Discreet, and Neither is Time"

The Labour leader's labelling of those who disagree with him as 'unBritish' is a worrying sign of things to come, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher