Thirty years ago I knew that China would be the next “America”. The next “Britain.” The next industrial and technological hegemon. I wrote about this back in the early 2000s, at BOPNews, the Agonist and FDL. When the Chinese were let into the WTO by Bill Clinton their rise and replacement of the US became […]
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Debate over a secret court opinion involving the Trump administration’s use of data collected by the NSA turned personal.
The post Ron Wyden Is Pissing Off the NSA’s Biggest Backers. Tom Cotton Warns There Will Be “Consequences.” appeared first on The Intercept.
The two female Northern white rhinos keeping the species alive
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Janet Mills dropped out of the Senate race against Graham Platner, despite the establishment’s longtime support for the Maine governor.
The post Democratic Leaders Wanted to Control the Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out. appeared first on The Intercept.
Just like us, they need a cooldown after workouts
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The U.S. government and the right-wing media ecosystem are sowing unfounded doubt
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“The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights–era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere”
— AP News
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A key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act sought to ensure that racial groups could not be denied political representation through gerrymandering along racial lines. We, the Conservative Justices on the Supreme Court, believe that this law is both unnecessary and unconstitutional. If anything, drawing districts to combat racism is the real racism.
The problem with the Voting Rights Act, as it is written, is that it allows states to draw district boundaries so that certain racial groups have a better chance at equal representation. In Louisiana, for example, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts were majority Black. Does that seem fair to you?
The world is not your aquarium
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EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform's bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas
Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor returns on June 25th in the Doctor Who multi-platform adventure "Circuit Breaker." Here's how it works...
The good-vs-evil paradigm of most pop-culture storytelling is a relatively recent effort to promote social cohesion
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Everything that involves skill requires practice. Use the AIR method – awareness, isolation, repetition – to improve
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One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons
- by Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns
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.
The post Hegseth Brags of a Deadlier War Machine as U.S. Unleashes “Devastating Civilian Harm Globally” appeared first on The Intercept.
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.