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It will take far more than some clever speechifying from the King to repair the deep damage the US President has done to relations with his country's former closest ally, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
Palantir's CEO Alex Karp has confirmed the anti-democratic agenda of the company's founder Peter Thiel
A lot of the post WW2 institutional structure is being challenged at present and/or vanishing altogether. Some of the changing environment will prove to be disastrous for the world, while some of the changes are likely to be beneficial. There will also be pro and con of many of the disruptions. Tomorrow (May 1, 2026),…
While testifying to Congress on Wednesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth lobbed threats and brushed off queries about civilian harm.
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The writer's new memoir is a feast, exploring how food can be both deeply personal and impacted by forces much larger than ourselves.
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“Gasoline prices in the United States rose on Tuesday to their highest level in four years as peace talks between the United States and Iran appeared at an impasse.” – New York Times
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Here at the Department of Energy, we want to reassure Americans that, while the war we’ve already won shows no signs of ending and oil prices remain over $100 a barrel, we are taking decisive action to ensure that, under no circumstances, Americans will ever need to drive a fuel-efficient vehicle.
We’ve heard your complaints about the high price of gasoline. Don’t worry. We’re prepared. We’ve been hoarding oil in underground salt caverns for exactly this kind of unpredictable situation: where we flagrantly start a war with the world’s fifth-largest oil producer that controls access to 20 percent of global supply, which disrupts global supplies.
In fact, we’ve already begun releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which we’ve been kind of obsessed with maintaining since the 1970s energy crisis, which also coincidentally had to do with Iran.
A provision unrelated to domestic spying got the hard-right GOP members on board — but it won’t work in the Senate.
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Minneapolis activists are accusing a local House candidate of “cosplaying” as a protester, blurring the line between solidarity and opportunism.
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After the Iran/US truce, Trump put a blockade on vessels going to Iran for oil. This resulted in Iran not opening the Strait of Hormuz as they had originally intended. At first the blockade was not very effective, but it appears to have tightened and is now stopping most oil export from Iran. It appears […]
Economics today has — as we all know — become a ‘the model is the message’ discipline. However, as long as it does not seriously examine and evaluate the compatibility between the models and their real‑world target systems, the belief that these models significantly improve our ability to understand or explain what happens in our […]
Lawmakers say they want lower drug prices — but a simple fix has been sitting on the shelf for years, blocked by pharmaceutical lobbying.
“After canceled gigs in the U.K., France, Switzerland, and Poland, Kanye West’s upcoming concert in Italy is sparking an uproar due to the rapper’s antisemitic remarks.” — Variety
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Like everyone else who enjoys robot kazoo music, I was shocked to learn the truth about my favorite artist, Vorgarg. I had always assumed he was a fun-loving robot who knew his way around a kazoo, not a ruthless killing machine hell-bent on the destruction of humankind. I read his manifesto vowing to extinguish all human life, and I’ll be honest, it was disturbing. It is hard to reconcile the image of one of the top-ten kazoo-playing robots of all time with one who could write such vile things.
But when Vorgarg announced his upcoming tour, I knew I had to go.
The Treasury Department failed to fully protect Americans’ personal data from the prying eyes of Department of Government Efficiency employees, according to a new watchdog report.
Since Rubio became secretary of state, the department has only marked Christian and Jewish holidays on its Instagram while boosting clear religious messaging.
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May this decree be signed expeditiously
and this divorce be soon over.
May it be amicable.
But not too amicable.
I refuse to vacation together.
Who do we think we are,
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin?
May this divorce be like oil and water,
separated indefinitely. In fact, let us be
parallel lines. You go your way, I’ll go mine,
never touching again. Ever.
May this conscious uncoupling be full of freedom:
from the nightly whistle of your CPAP machine
and from your mother’s Christmas
raisin bread pudding.
If this crucial circulation system shuts down, the civilisational impacts will be irreversible. So why isn’t it a top priority? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd April 2026 The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay politicians. It’s not an original […]