GOP attacks on immigrants comes to prime time Historian Jon Meacham told ABC’s “This Week” that the rules Joe Biden has won for this Thursday’s presidential debate means he has “childproofed” the debate for the child challenging him. That’s naive, of course. The child has signaled his plan to tag Biden with every violent crime committed by an undocumented immigrant. If Biden is defending that accusation, he’s losing. He has to reject the premise and “out” what Trump is really doing. Trump means to collectively punish 11 million undocumented migrants with mass roundup at the hands of the military, and to deport the lot using isolated isolated migrant crimes as a pretext. Perhaps pointing out Trump’s penchant for demonization and collective punishment of human beings he’s branded “vermin” is a more evocative counter. The subtext speaks for itself.
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Alan MacLeod breaks down how think tanks function, how they push pro-war propaganda on the American public, and what we can do to protect ourselves from it.
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Beyond the significant financial expenses required to conduct RCTs … critics have raised concerns about considerable opportunity costs associated with their privileged status in programme and policy assessment. These costs result from how an over-emphasis on experimental evaluations in evidence generation systematically undermines alternative research methods potentially better equipped to answer questions about causal mechanisms (or […]
Whose values are those? Power is a drug. An addictive one, potentially. Like other medications, it can heal, soothe, and harm if misused. From the first time a two-year-old says, “I want to do it myself,” or starts acting out or running away from parents to taste some personal freedom, they are expressing a human need for autonomy, for control. Power is so visceral that it’s why I resist the impulse simply to brand as racism the reactionary views and actions of people who feel threatened by changing demographics and cultural norms. It’s not that racial animus is not a component. It’s that skin color is too convenient a shorthand for sizing up a crowd and knowing who’s who in the pecking order. IIRC (someone will correct me), one of Cyril Northcote Parkinson’s lesser known “laws,” allowed one to identify the most important person in a ballroom because they’d be found at a certain grid point at t+n minutes from the start of the event. And knowing that would be of interest why? Power.
The new era of Doctor Who gave classic companion Mel, played by Bonnie Langford, more to do in two episodes than in her entire original run.
Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, an honest assessment of how things could get worse.
THEM: Are you the Dan Kennedy who has written all about how to make millions of dollars? You sell a program of some sort to people and say they can get rich with this program if they buy your books and stuff?
ME: Oh, god, no. I’m really glad we’re meeting. That’s a different Dan Kennedy. No, I’ve written three books, comedy books, and humor. I’m not asking anyone for money.
[I start a goddamn nervous laugh that suddenly feels like the kind of nervous laugh someone would use if they were trying to swindle you out of something or convince you that they’re not lying. It’s a terrible laugh. I have three of them, and this is the worst one that could’ve come out of me. The other two are terrible, but only because they sound stupid and deep.]
THEM: Take Their Money and Leave Them Laughing. You didn’t write this book?
ME: I did not, No. See that’s another Dan Kennedy. Some get-rich-quick guy. I would never write about taking people’s money—I’m super glad we’re meeting to clarify this.
There are three legal cases against Tate pending – involving accusations of abusive behaviour towards women, human trafficking, and sexual assault
Records seen by Byline Times throw doubt on the party's claims about the tech firm employed by Conservative MPs
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I veckans avsnitt av Starta Pressarna fortsätter debatten om det finanspolitiska ramverketoch behovet av stora framtida investeringar i infrastruktur, bostäder, försvar och energiomställning. Medverkande i det här avsnittet är — förutom Daniel Suhonen — Per Molander och Max Jerneck. Som alltid på den här podden — intressant, slagkraftigt och tankeväckande!
A recently unearthed booklet on The 1900 Club sheds some light on the history of the organisation and its ties to the Conservative Party
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Research by the Institute for Economic Equity finds LGBTQ+ adults have lower homeownership rates and are more likely to hold mortgages than non-LGBTQ+ adults.
When Putin tried to mobilise an army to boost troops in his war on Ukraine, some 700,000 people fled. More than two years on, many have returned home. Why?
Tbilisi Pride says that it is in the 'ultimate battle for our lives... and if we lose, we will have to go into exile'
In April 2023, the then governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia gave a speech to the National Press Club in Sydney – Monetary Policy, Demand and Supply = the day after the RBA decided to end (for a month) its rate hikes after hiking the previous 10 meetings of the RBA Board, the body…
