It was a rust bucket, sure, but this car delivered the most precious good to a group of friends in 1980s Poland: freedom
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Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence
- by Dan Degerman
In Southeast Asia’s scam compounds, workers are being enslaved but the boundary between victim and perpetrator is blurred
- by Ivan Franceschini & Ling Li
With an national election approaching in Japan (February 8, 2026), there has been a lot of discussion about the so-called ‘weak yen’ and whether the Bank of Japan should be intervening to manage the value of the currency on international markets. PM Takaichi has been quoted as saying that the weak yen is good for…
I now see how it can be addictive: A mindblowing experience and feeling like I see the world a bit differently. A feeling of being super smart and powerful. Getting lured in with free samples then everything costs. How it … Continue reading
My dad genuinely had no interest in music. Well, almost none – he did enjoy novelty songs from time to time, but not really for the music. Our friend Bob, who is otherwise quite sensible, used to try to convince him that listening to music would enhance his life. I had more sense (I did, […]
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 01, 2026 by Tony Wikrent The Crisis, No. 8 — The empire of exit and the conspiracy against America Mike Brock, Jan 29, 2026 [Notes From The Circus] The Director of National Intelligence stood in the parking lot of the Fulton County Elections Hub while FBI agents loaded boxes onto […]
Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised source. But a zealously pro-war Guardian reporter is doing her best to legitimize it. The claim of “30,000 killed” during two days of protests and rioting across Iran appears to be based largely on a single anonymous source, who admitted extrapolating that figure by assuming without evidence that “officially registered deaths related to the crackdown likely represent […]
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Melania Trump seems so unfazed by the sins of her milieu, it only makes sense that the film’s director is in the Epstein files.
The post “Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject appeared first on The Intercept.
The Disney+ era was another example of Doctor Who becoming an indigestible mix of 60+ years of lore and canon, making the show feel old.
Compensation delayed for East Palestine victims, Democrats’ ICE follies, and more from The Lever this week.
Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for folks who missed them, I will be periodically (re)publishing blog posts about some “older” published projects. This post is closely …
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The gilt market is mendicant, not master. Why we must stop our devotion to an empty throne and remove this phantom veto on democracy.
Two years before Trump sent Kilmar Ábrego García to CECOT, the Bukele regime arrested a U.S. citizen for his tattoos. The Biden administration didn’t intervene.
The post An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration appeared first on The Intercept.
The 2026 Oxfam report, Our Unequal Sweden, issues a damning indictment of the nation’s economic trajectory, systematically dismantling the enduring myth of Swedish egalitarianism. It reveals a society undergoing a profound and deliberate schism, where escalating mass vulnerability exists in parallel with unprecedented wealth consolidation among a tiny elite. The empirical evidence is overwhelming and … … Continue reading
More Epstein documents have been dumped, and they’re atrocious. It seems like most of the US elite was involved. There are two reasons for this. One is that people who are super-powerful and super-rich feel like ordinary morality and laws don’t apply to them, and rape and torture and pedophilia are, to them, an ultimate […]
. What yours truly most admires about Ann Pettifor is her ability to cut through economic abstraction with clarity and moral purpose. She identifies what most mainstream economists miss: that finance is not a mere technical side note, but the very arena where power and real-world consequences collide. Her Minsky-Keynes-inspired analysis of the financial system … … Continue reading
Ncuti Gatwa's departure from Doctor Who was a "surprise" to Mark Gatiss, and he sees that Billie Piper moment as the "ultimate cliffhanger."
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A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Pretti’s death.
The post He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing. appeared first on The Intercept.