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Peter Dutton’s replacement, err, shadow Treasurer, Angus Taylor, has promised the Nation that he will deliver the Coalition’s costings as soon as he finds the napkin that he wrote them on. ”People need a bit of patience, we will get... Read More ›
The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself
The post Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness appeared first on Nautilus.
Patents and the Abundance Agenda Dean Baker I haven’t read Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance, but everyone I know seems to be…
Toward sustainable economies Anastasia Pseiridis Creating economies that do not devastate the natural world on which they depend is the economic challenge of the 21st…
Harvard released dueling reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim bias. Guess which one the Times emphasized?
The post How the New York Times Distorts the Antisemitism Debate on College Campuses appeared first on The Intercept.
NAIRU — a harmful fairy tale Lars Syll The NAIRU story has always had a very clear policy implication – every attempt to promote full…
Back in 2022, after my first encounter with ChatGPT, I suggested that it was likely to wipe out large categories of “bullshit jobs”, but unlikely to create mass unemployment. In retrospect, that was probably an overestimate of the likely impact. But three years later, it seems as if an update might be appropriate. In the last […]
In key victories for students, judges ruled to release Mohsen Mahdawi and allow Mahmoud Khalil’s case to advance in federal court.
The post Students Are Winning in Court Against Trump’s Deportation Regime appeared first on The Intercept.
As David Keeling led companies’ safety operations, workers fell ill and died amid extreme temperatures. Now he could dismantle federal heat protections.
A new Federal Reserve study says record corporate profit increases are "driven by an increase in the dividends rewarding shareholders.”
A Wall Street auto analyst says the Big Three American carmakers are unlikely to benefit much, while Musk’s Tesla gets a leg up for now.
The post Trump’s Auto Tariff Relief “Helps Tesla a Lot” — Leaving Other Carmakers Behind appeared first on The Intercept.
“President Trump signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools. One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have ‘abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)–based standards.’” — NPR
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In light of the recent absolutely-not-political-at-all orders from the federal government to systematically dismantle any institutional memory of the words “diversity,” “equity,” or “inclusion” (and to replace them with something more patriotic, like “freedom of sameness”), Southwestern University for Civic Knowledge (SUCK) would like to reassure the community that it remains firmly committed to whatever version of moral clarity is currently legally advisable.
The president said he had nothing to do with the right-wing plan to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. Now, Project 2025’s authors are celebrating just how much of their agenda Trump has achieved.
The right once championed free speech. Now it’s building blacklists—fueled by a foreign-aligned donor machine.
The post Meet The Think Tanks Behind MAGA’s New Free Speech Crackdown appeared first on MintPress News.
Today, the Vietnamese people celebrate 50 years since the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) liberated Saigon, coordinating with the city’s popular uprising to remove the US-backed South Vietnamese puppet regime from power to end 150 years of colonialism and create an independent Vietnam. This independence was […]
Monarchy and its symbols seem to retain an allure that is hard to resist—even if in jest.
There may be a far more sinister motive for Donald Trump to go as far as to try to violate the constitutional ban on running for a third term, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
The US economy shrank because it bought more things from abroad? That’s not shrinkage, that’s success measured incorrectly.
This is the greatest assault on academic freedoms in generations, argues Emma DeSouza
"Lucky Day" writer Pete McTighe discusses joining the Doctor Who universe and this weekend's Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson)-focused adventure.
Attention, bank employees and patrons! This is a robbery. Remain calm, lie down on the ground, and check in with yourselves. Do you have the emotional capacity for us to rob you right now?
Don’t look my partner in the eye. Don’t look at him! He’s super socially anxious. He just takes a little time to open up. Once you get to know him, though? He has the heart of a poet.
NO TALKING. Let’s all embrace this opportunity for silence with a deep inhale. That’s it. Now, with your next exhale, place your wallets and valuables into this NPR tote bag. Many of you may be feeling discomfort. That’s totally okay! Discomfort is a gift. It’s the body’s way of telling you there is more for you to learn.
Ma’am, please stop struggling while I’m binding your hands. I can’t let you go free, but I can offer you your choice of rope. Do you like cotton or twine?
After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.
The post U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It’s Coming Home. appeared first on The Intercept.