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Doctor Who alum Peter Capaldi on the pressures of playing the Doctor, not just as a celebrity but also as the face of a brand worth millions.

Our 17th most-read article of 2025.

Originally published April 25, 2025.

Right now, you’re behind me, within reading distance on the freeway, at the stoplight, in the parking lot, maybe in the drive-thru line, or perhaps in my very own driveway (anywhere but a gas station, really), and I know what you’re thinking. But before you form another thought, you’re going to want to keep reading this five-hundred-word bumper sticker on my Tesla so you can fully understand why I am not a bad person.

Well, as they say, out of the mouths of babes 🙂 — and this one is real Dear Santa, Why do all my toys say made in China? I guess even you can’t abstain from the allure of cheap labor. Oink oink you capitalist pig. Josh Dear ES/PE community members, in the midst of the […]

While pushing for war on Venezuela in legacy media, former US ambassador Jimmy Story is soliciting clients for consulting firms run by notorious ex-CIA officials. Editor’s note: Former US ambassador to Venezuela James “Jimmy” Story has gone from de facto manager of the putschist, Washington-backed opposition in Venezuela to one of the most prominent voices promoting the Trump-Rubio regime change policy inside legacy media. On December 7, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria featured his calls for toppling Venezuela’s government during a panel […]

The post Spook Story: Ex-US amb. to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Spook Story: Ex-US amb. to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials appeared first on The Grayzone.

Dec 15, 2025 1. European rearmament and threat inflation Lord Robertson was the lead author of Britain’s Strategic Defence Review, published on 2 June 2024. The Review effectively seeks to implant a war-ready mindset across society, insisting that the UK must be “better prepared for high-intensity, protracted war” and that its war-making, and therefore deterrence, … Continue reading Ukraine – the delusion of the warmongers

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For years, I’ve shared names of former soldiers implicated in atrocities with the Pentagon. It’s shown no interest in punishment until Mark Kelly dissed Trump.

The post My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up appeared first on The Intercept.

Test your knowledge of consolidation in the frozen potato market, new national security directives, and other issues from the past year that really matter.

In Whigs and Hunters, Marxist historian E. P. Thompson explained how law, though shaped by class power, could also enable resistance, because governing through legal forms bound the state to limits it could not fully control. Those limits sustained a long tradition in which ordinary people could contest abuses of authority from within the law […]

This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.

The pro-police group wants the Justice Department to investigate a reformist prosecutor for violating the civil rights of against American citizens.

The post Cop Group Alleges “Discrimination” by Prosecutor for Being Too Nice to Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.

Doctor Who jokes are the sugar on the pill for a PSA that Christopher Eccleston stars in for The Coalition to End Gambling Ads (CEGA).

Our 22nd most-read article of 2025.

Originally published June 3, 2025.

“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.”

“Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the law and marching to the beat of his own legal drum, the president chose the latter.”

“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”

“Perhaps unaware that he had sailed beyond the Constitution’s horizons, the president found himself drifting further and further from legal terra firma.”

It’s been a huge year for The Lever — and we’re just getting started.

The Illinois congressional candidate turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.

The post Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People appeared first on The Intercept.

After mastering the technicalities of regression analysis and econometrics, students often feel as though they are masters of the universe. I usually bring them back down to earth by assigning Christopher Achen’s modern classic Interpreting and Using Regression. This tends to put them back on track, helping them to understand that “no increase in methodological […]

Trump cast the Nigeria strikes as an assault on those “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”

The post War on Christmas: Trump Announces Wave of Airstrikes Targeting ISIS Militants in Nigeria appeared first on The Intercept.

When a liberal society faces the question of granting special privileges, immunities, and political autonomy to one cultural group … it cannot compromise on fundamental human rights. Furthermore, those who understand liberal democracy as itself a way of life grounded in a distinct moral faith cannot in good conscience agree to allow schools or the government […]

For a brief period, the pause in Israeli violence gave us a sense of normalcy. Then the airstrikes started again.

The post Reuniting With Family in Gaza During the Break Between Bombings appeared first on The Intercept.

Hope it’s a good one for you, whether you celebrate or not. If it’s miserable, my condolences and a virtual hug. Life is often ass, may it be better for you soon.

My blog is on holiday until Tuesday, January 6, 2026. We are planning to finish the manuscript for the Second Edition of our Macroeconomics textbook by year’s end and that is what I am working fervently on in the next week. I am also preparing for a conversation next week with the Post-Neoliberalism Oral History…

It’s that magical time of year again. Candles and poinsettias decorate every surface, small children are dressed as sheep, angels are telling people to “Fear not.” So, really, with Christmas just hours away, what do any of us have to fear?

Me, bitch.

I’m the high A flat at the end of “O Holy Night,” and I’m not optional. I’m printed right there in the second ending after the coda, soaring above the treble clef line. I will be sung.

Were you thinking about presents? The ham defrosting at home? The birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the most humble and abject of circumstances? Not anymore!

It says “Special Music: O Holy Night” right there in the bulletin, between the sermon and the offering, and now you’re not going to be able to think about anything else. You’ll be on the edge of your seat waiting for me, because you’ve heard way too many singers screech and waver and get me all wrong. What catastrophe awaits this time?

And just like that, I’ve hijacked the whole service.

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