Today’s Sunday cartoon (above) is perhaps the tenth or twelfth edition of
this unusual word puzzle format that my good friend, Cliff Harris The King
of Wordplay devised. SPOILER ALERT: The answers to the three puzzles above
are in bold at the end of this little mini-essay.
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How Republicans Could Steal The Next Presidential Election
The latest Republican plot to sabotage our elections could remove American voters from the process of selecting their president.
You heard that right. A case headed to the Supreme Court could let Republican controlled state legislatures overrule the will of the people and pick the next president without you.
This all hinges on a radical idea called the “independent state legislature theory.” It’s at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will decide called Moore v. Harper.
Opinion by Jameel Jaffer -- Politico
Reforms to the law are long overdue, but they have nothing to do with the Mar-a-Lago search.
By Micah Lee -- The Intercept
The Trump administration used the controversial law to target media outlets and sources who provided important information to the public.
By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
Attorneys and journalists whom the CIA spied on when they visited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London have filed a lawsuit against the CIA, its former director Mike Pompeo, UC Global and its director, David Morales, in U.S. District Court.
Paul Mason, author of 5 Ways to Stop Fascism, breaks it down: Read more here.
How does Generation Z’s student debt burden stack up against millennials’ at the same age?
The NDIS is pumping feel-good stories through social media channels at a robust rate, but for many, there is a massive gap between these accounts and actual service delivery. read now...by Julien Etienne* It is startling to see that regulation scholarship continues projecting a business-as-usual picture, when current trends and scientific insights into the foreseeable future all point to radical change. Indeed, scientists have been documenting the extremely rapid decline in biodiversity and acceleration of climate change. They project that these trends will continue to […]
We've been doing live streams of our songwriting sessions from our studio on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.
Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.
Rumble Fish Style (Live Stream Clip)
One of the things I wanted to try was something that sounded like the soundtrack for the 1983 movie Rumble Fish.
In memory of Lance Taylor
The fast-growing esports industry boosts economies as well as top players.
States depend on the consent of the governed: there are only a finite number of cops, and politicians, once stripped of authority and armed guards,…
Aug 22, 2022 ROBERT SKIDELSKY The widening gaps in policy formation nowadays reflect the division of labor and increasing specialization that has taken us from the sixteenth-century ideal of the Renaissance man. And today’s biggest policymaking gap has grown so large that it threatens global catastrophe. LONDON – Just as the insistent demand for more … Continue reading Mind the Policy Gaps
A study that examined sovereign risk among oil-exporting countries provides insights into why sanctions may not deter Russia, a major oil-exporter.
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
In our INET working paper, "China’s Development Path,” we employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided foundational support for the emergence of Chinese enterprises capable of technological learning.
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
It gives me great pleasure, as well as relief, that The New Inquiry has agreed to republish this landmark essay. For a while now, strangers…
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The widening gaps in policy formation nowadays reflect the division of labor and increasing specialization that has taken us from the sixteenth-century ideal of the Renaissance man. And today’s biggest policymaking gap has grown so large that it threatens global catastrophe.