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Just as schools have evolved beyond ‘chalk and talk’ in the education experience they provide our kids, the profession of demographic forecasting has developed in recent years to the point where school planning can...

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The former minister in Boris Johnson's Government has admitted that the requirement to show ID at polling stations was an attempt to advantage his party, reports Adam Bienkov

Mic Wright explains what happened to non-violent Animal Rising activists on the day of the Coronation

In a bonus episode for supporting subscribers, David speaks with two experts on the private equity industry.

In the latest in a series of damning reports, Byline Times reveals that the new mandatory voter ID requirements have caused confusion and anger among would-be voters. Josiah Mortimer reports

The intimacy that developed between an artist and his muse over hundreds of sittings is an exercise in love and drawing

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Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show.

The post U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr appeared first on The Intercept.

From hummable riffs to striking lyrics, the catchiest hooks tell us something about the limits of human attention and memory

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After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life

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In his annual report message, St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard discussed the growth of international trade since the 1980s and the reassessment of globalization in recent years.

Ekonomijournalistgruppen har en hel del tydliga devota och inställsamma inslag, där många, kanske de flesta, med tiden har valt att gå ”all in” och blivit PR-konsulter eller pressansvariga på något företag. Andreas Cervenka är ett lysande undantag och hans ”Girig-Sverige” är ekonomijournalistik när den är som bäst, kritisk, upplysande och underhållande … Sverige har numera […]

John Mitchinson explores a presence not a character, lurking on the edge of our technology-addled consciousness...

I had an odd intellectual experience recently. A US high school student wrote to me as part of an assignment, asking for my thoughts on Brave New World, and its current relevance. I replied talking about the role of “Our Ford”, and Gramsci’s contemporary concept of Fordism. That got me thinking about post-Fordism, and then […]

How barriers to the WIC program keep parents and kids from getting what they need.

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Fifteen years after the Lehman Brothers collapse and following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank, Signature Bank, as well as the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse, banks are back in the headlines. Daniel Beunza and Pierre-Christian Fink assembled an excellent panel of sociologists and social scientists, studying banks, regulation and finance, to […]

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Trump’s takeover of GOP helped him to write the delegate rules. The number winner-take-all states has grown from seven to 17 I don’t think people have truly grasped what this means: Republicans seeking to keep Donald Trump from becoming their party’s nominee will have to overcome rules even more favorable to the former president than the ones that helped him clinch the 2016 nomination. In 2024, more states will award delegates through winner-take-all primaries — a system that helped Trump when opponents divided the vote, allowing him to be awarded all or most of the delegates with less than majority support.  Is it possible that the field will be cleared of everyone but DeSantis (or one of the other candidates) and they will win a majority and Trump will be defeated. But it is highly unlikely. Trump dominates the GOP primary electorate and will probably win a majority in most states even if they manage to clear the field. And, as we know, it matters where you win. If he takes the biggest states with large numbers of delegates, he wins again.

In my 2015 book – Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale (published May 2015) – I traced in considerable detail the events and views that led to the creation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU, aka the Eurozone) once the Treaty of Maastricht was pushed through as the most advanced form…

Doctor Who stars David Tennant & Catherine Tate had a little fun at their own expense while presenting during today's BAFTA TV Awards 2023.