tl;dr: Read “Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media” The lovely folks at the Social Media + Society journal asked me to contribute to their anniversary issue by reflecting on the trajectory of social media. Ooof. Snark exuded from my pores as I tried to figure out what I might say. But then I thought about how my students don’t […]
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For a century, this theory of human origins has died and returned. To free it from limbo, we must disentangle its many meanings
- by Vivek V Venkataraman
Treating journalism like a casino will harm reporting — and erode democracy.
The post We Need to Kick Prediction Market Betting Out of Journalism While We Still Can appeared first on The Intercept.
A DOJ prosecutor insists he charged Abrego based strictly on evidence of human smuggling. A federal judge seems skeptical.
The post Who Decided to Indict Kilmar Abrego Garcia Over a Years-Old Traffic Stop? appeared first on The Intercept.
One of the limitations of economics is the restricted possibility of performing experiments, forcing it to rely mainly on observational studies for knowledge of real-world economies. But still — the idea of performing laboratory experiments holds a firm grip on our wish to discover (causal) relationships between economic ‘variables’. If only we could isolate and […]
The clash between populists and party elites is no longer quiet — it’s an all-out fight over money and power.
I stumbled across this, completely typical word usage today: The Somali government officially announced that it was starting a blockade. Same as the US blockade. Same as the Iranian blockade. So either it’s all piracy, or it’s all “boarding.” We have seen a constant refusal to call Palestinian children, children. The words “Israel killed” are […]
The only extremism would-be assassins like suspect Cole Tomas Allen share is an extreme response to Trump’s deranging politics.
The post How Trump’s America Produces Normie Assassins appeared first on The Intercept.
Today, with the blessing of the Trump administration, Bayer will ask the Supreme Court to block lawsuits connecting its weedkiller to sickness and death.
Billionaire GOP donor Jeffrey Yass scored millions in private-school tax credits while he bankrolled the lawmakers who expanded them.
Sometimes, when a 10Foot graffiti tag slips into view from an unexpected source — on a remote farm gate in the countryside, or in an over-gentrified corner of London Fields — the pleasurable jolt of human connection is not that far from the warm feeling of recognition that great literature can give you. So maybe […]
More than twelve months of strike action has taken a devastating toll on the NHS. I’m not talking about walkouts by doctors or nurses, but about the sustained capital strike by some of the biggest pharmaceutical corporations in the world. Backed by the president of the United States, these companies have spent the past year […]
Deep inside a luscious grove in Nigeria, a community of artists preserves otherworldly monuments to Yorùbá spirituality
- by Aeon Video
Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural
- by Denva Gallant
New research has mapped people’s contrasting conceptions of the truth. No wonder so many arguments feel irresolvable
- by Lukas S Huber, David-Elias Künstle & Kevin Reuter
The late Leo Abse — social reformer, author and Labour MP — once recalled his early days taking the train from his south Wales Pontypool constituency to Parliament. This was in the 1970s, when MPs weren’t paid much and most of Leo’s colleagues were former mineworkers and union officials. ‘The carriage would be quiet,’ said […]
Nigel Farage's Head of Policy endorsed extremist ‘Great Replacement’ theory, called for the reversal of a quarter-century of British migration, and named himself UK chair of a pan-European far-right alliance, in conversation with now deceased ‘MAGA’ activist Charlie Kirk.
“It all comes down to those four,” said an advocate, “and if they are going to continue to try to hand Trump warrantless surveillance.”
The post Meet the Four Democrats Who’ll Decide If Trump Gets His Domestic Spying Law appeared first on The Intercept.
As 175 Ukrainian POWs are returned to Chernihiv, desperate families continue to search for their missing loved ones, Kris Parker reports
Adam Smith, like the other Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, was strongly influenced by natural rights philosophy. Locke — under the influence of Hugo Grotius and Samuel von Pufendorf — had emphasised people’s natural freedom and right against the state. For Smith, natural freedom meant, among other things, that the individual himself should have the right to […]
