‘I’m left breathless when I face the abyss’ – a stirring portrait of the Mexican cliff divers who leap 100 feet into the sea
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By curating your family’s stories, rituals and relics, you’ll feel anchored – and create a bridge between the generations
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We know that black holes are strange, but they could be hiding something even weirder beyond their horizons
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An aid agreement template would require countries to share vast amounts of health data, including on abortion, to receive funds to combat HIV and other infectious diseases.
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We might say that the most pessimistic predictions about the effects of the computer and internet age are being borne out in real time. Welcome to the future, where a belligerent US president works hand-in-hand with white supremacist tech moguls, using trade policy and threats to crowbar US-centric technology across the globe; AI-enabled slop, untruths […]
“Banning an entire news organization from press conferences hurts the public interest as people will lose access to independent reporting on matters of national importance.”
Pressure is building from the US for a Plaza Accord 2.0 as part of the US President’s attempts to ‘improve’ the US trade situation. I use the term ‘improve’ cautiously because the US President seems think that making it more difficult and expensive for US consumers and businesses to access imports from abroad is a…
I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a century or two. That distant prospect is producing lots of advocacy for policies to increase birth rates right now. One of the big claims is that a smaller population will […]
Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. The files show the Committee boasting of a “90% + success rate” in enforcing the official British line on any controversial story – or disappearing reports entirely. A new trove of documents obtained by The Grayzone through freedom of information (FOI) requests provide unprecedented insight into Britain’s little-known military and intelligence censorship board. The contents lay bare how the […]
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Irrelevant cross bencher, Barnaby Joyce, has called a press conference and told the two reporters present about how livid he was to not be invited to the Prime Minister’s bucks party. ”I can understand not making the cut to the... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 30, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] Legal Experts […]
Check out character posters and more for Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies and Peter McTighe's The War Between the Land and the Sea.
Ergodicity often hides behind a veil of mathematical complexity, yet at its core, it offers a profoundly simple and insightful lens through which to view and understand probability and time. At its heart, it challenges us to distinguish between two distinct types of averages: the ensemble average and the time average. To grasp this distinction, let […]
. America needs Robert Reich’s unflinching clarity. He diagnoses Trumpian fascism not as politics, but as a contagion: a cult of personality, the eroding trust in elections and a free press, and the strategic use of scapegoats and violent rhetoric. His voice is a vaccine against complacency, and the nation needs this civic defence now […]
How free speech is being weaponized, why the Internet is falling apart, and more from The Lever this week.
A look at how the BBC's Doctor Who spinoff miniseries, The War Between the Land and the Sea, and Torchwood: Children of Earth connect.
. Statler and Waldorf, the definitive hecklers, made watching The Muppet Show an enduring delight through their brutal honesty and brilliantly bickering chemistry.
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
The post Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War appeared first on The Intercept.
Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the Honduran economy unless the country elects the oligarch-run National Party. Now, he’s even pardoned the last party member to rule the country, who was convicted in 2024 of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the US. On November 28, US President Donald Trump Trump declared he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years in a New York prison in 2024 for his role in […]
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