Last week, Indonesia, our biggest and closest neighbour, deposited its instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the UN. This was a major international and regional development, a good-news story with a very positive impact on international security, but we’ve heard virtually nothing about it from our government Continue reading »
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“Haredim, not Arabs or Iran, are the biggest threat to Israel’, Dan Perry, 2021 Introduction: demography is destiny The Haredim community represents the deeply religious, ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel. They currently (2023) represent 13.5 percent of the total population of Israel. In about 40 years, their relative size will rise to 31.3 percent (see Figure Continue reading »
I am a cultural Jew because I am an atheist. I cannot celebrate the Jewish New Year because of the continuing horror in Gaza, and now in Lebanon. A genocide is being perpetrated by Netanyahu and his government which is destroying Jewish humanist traditions. Netanyahu, Ben-Gevir, Smotrich and other Kahanites have hijacked the Jewish masses Continue reading »
I am writing this because no one at the ABC — whose producers invited me onto their coronation coverage as a guest — has uttered one word of public support. Not one ABC executive has publicly refuted the lies written or spoken about me. I don’t hold any individual responsible; this is an institutional failure. Continue reading »
Lowy’s fudge doesn’t work – Australia has to choose between peace with China or following the US towards war. Don’t tell Joe Biden (“You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world”) but according to a recent article in Foreign Affairs not merely is the US not running the world but it Continue reading »
Much more than a cyclical adjustment, Beijing’s latest policy shift marks a milestone in the history of its economic management. Beijing’s larger-than-expected market rescue plan announced last week is extraordinary in every way. The policies, from interest rate cuts to special funding schemes for the stock market, are significant. But investors are particularly excited about Continue reading »
Everyone knows it’s hard being the high school basketball team that lost to Air Bud. He’s a dog; it’s an embarrassing defeat. But people don’t realize it’s worse being the team that went out, played hard, and beat that beloved golden retriever by eighty-seven points.
Famously, there’s no rule against a dog playing basketball. Apparently, there is one big rule about forfeiting against a dog playing basketball. I gladly would’ve given Air Bud’s team of ragtag teens the morally uplifting win, but the Washington State Athletic Commission made us spend forty-five minutes dunking on man’s best friend.
Trust me, we tried to lose, but it wasn’t enough. Air Bud is very skilled at bouncing a game-winning shot off his snout in an emotional third-act climax, but he’s less adept at small things like dribbling. The dog does not have hands. I said that phrase so many times during the game. There’s only so much stalling you can do before your team starts draining mid-range jumpers.
Mark Martin floated fringe theories to keep Trump in power. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito taught with him — even after January 6.
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Age-verification requirements offer a false sense of safety, and risk both privacy and national security
Puffing on a vape, Peter Kennard flicks through an old notebook, showing me cutouts of his first commission. The images are already fixed in the now iconic Kennard style — an ominous Richard Nixon delivering his State of the Union address, whilst Edward Heath and a crowd representing the British public subserviently pay witness. The […]
Anne Sexton is familiar with the dark night of the soul felt in the body.
With the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel approaching, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme violence on the West Bank and now on Lebanon as well, something very different happened recently in a poky classroom at Columbia University. Two young men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, both of whom had lost people they deeply loved to the conflict, came to speak not about fear and anger, revenge or oppression, but about reconciliation, friendship, and peace. One of them was Arab Aramin, a 30-year-old Palestinian from Jerusalem whose little sister, Abir, had been shot and killed in front of her school by an Israeli soldier. She was 10 years old. The other was Yonatan Zeigen,... Read more
Vance is judged to have performed better than Tim Walz at the Vice-Presidential debate, but the Minnesota Governor got the better of him when they discussed the 2020 election
Im Februar 2024 kündigte die französische Regierung ein Sparpaket von 10 Mrd. € an, um das fiskalische Defizit zu senken. Politico berichtete: “Wir verdienen weniger, wir geben weniger aus”, sagt Finanzminister Bruno Le Maire. Diese Logik gilt zwar für einen Haushalt, aber nicht für eine nationale Regierung wie die von Frankreich. Warum? … Wenn Frankreich […]
“Donald Trump’s candidates keep delivering… for Democrats. Republicans didn’t learn their lesson in 2022 as MAGA mini-mes could once again cost the party winnable races.” — Vanity Fair, 9/30/24
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As a party, we have to apologize for how things are going. We’re just having a minor “candidate quality” problem, but things should be back to normal once we’ve fixed this glitch.
There’s nothing wrong overall. Our party is healthy and strong. We just accidentally ran extremely low-quality candidates up and down the ballot. Whoops.
Our policies are not out of step with the American public. At least, not if we deny any association with the nine-hundred-page authoritarian manual that outlines them exactly. The only problem is our candidates, many of whom are running campaigns entirely staffed by the writers of said manual. It’s a bummer, but it doesn’t represent us.
As a New York transplant originally from the South, my body is hard-wired to welcome the fall season once the temperature hits 70. I’m not proud of it, but I have been known to dust off my sweaters and light a cider-scented candle during the final week of August. This year, as my neighborhood Target started to swap sunscreen for pumpkin carving kits, a new seasonal item caught my eye: a cinnamon-creme chocolate bar called the Kit Kat Ghost Toast.
Once September began, I figured it was socially acceptable to give this Kit Kat a taste test. Store after store, however, the Ghost Toast was sold out. My interest was doubly piqued: why is this spooky-themed treat taking the city by storm in early September? Are shoppers in New York buying autumnal goods to seek a reprieve from the dog days of summer, or is the candy just that delicious? As a chocolate connoisseur and a Halloween hobbyist, I knew what I had to do. I made a trip to the motherland (Hershey’s Chocolate World in Times Square) to answer my question: Will I be able to boast that the Kit Kat Ghost Toast is the candy I love the most, or will I be forced to pen a roast because the flavor is gross?
We finally arrived in Gaza at around 7pm. Since there is no direct route into Gaza, we had to fly into Cairo before making the drive to the Rafah Crossing. I had lost count of the number of Israeli checkpoints we passed through — a daily reality for Palestinians living under apartheid. We were staying […]
One of Bell’s last actions before taking Rep. Cori Bush’s seat in Congress was to charge protesters arrested on the 10-year anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown Jr.
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