- Ossuary jars
- Anti-revolutionary painting
- Toxic dust
- Solastalgia
It was a cold, dry night in April, and a crowd had gathered in the center of Nukus, the capital of the Central Asian Republic of Karakalpakstan, to squint through a skein of toxic dust into the illuminated lobby of one of the world’s most peculiar cultural institutions: the Nukus Museum of Art.
Overall, you’ve got a strong concept: a log burning in a fireplace, on a loop for five hours. But we have a few notes.
Otherwise, it’s perfect.
Happy Holidays!
The goal of any monopoly is to create an entity so powerful it sets the terms industrywide, leaving consumers and workers with no choice.
The post The Netflix–Warner Bros. Merger Is a Broadside Attack on Workers appeared first on The Intercept.
In Get In, the first major account of Keir Starmer’s steady takeover of the Labour Party, journalists Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund describe a scene from one of Starmerism’s major tactical victories over the party’s left: a hastily introduced a motion at 2021’s party conference that would double the threshold of nominations for MPs to make […]
The true cost of fulfilling Trump’s mass deportation agenda and who’s profiting.
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Like characters outgrowing their creator, our teddy bears developed lives of their own
- by Sam Firman
For Mandeville, humankind has a bottomless need to be liked: it is this perennial craving that forms the foundation of society
- by Andrea Branchi
Of all the headlines and debacles that accompanied November’s Budget, a helping hand for one particular sector failed to materialise: arts and culture. The industry was not directly in the firing line of spending cuts, but it is a victim of continued state-managed neglect, as it has been slowly fed into the maw of the […]
“President Donald Trump on Wednesday assailed his White House predecessors for not pushing back against Venezuela earlier and stated that his intention is ‘getting land, oil rights, whatever we had’ returned by the government in Caracas.” — PBS
I’m absolutely disgusted by President Trump’s attempt to start a war with Venezuela without first putting in the years of tedious, brain-breaking propaganda work. Is it fun to poison the public consciousness with outrageous lies that border on blood libel and dehumanize innocent civilians in a country that most Americans couldn’t even find on a map? Of course not. But it’s what you do! Past presidents used to understand that. Past presidents used to care.
A measly $1,776 check for members of the military can’t undo years of insults and cuts.
The post The “Warrior Dividend” Is Trump’s Latest PR Stunt to Act Like He Cares About the Troops appeared first on The Intercept.
Kate McCallister realizes that her son Kevin didn’t make it with them to the airport on their way to Paris for the holidays. She frantically pulls out her phone and calls him up.
KEVIN: Hello?
MOM: Kevin!
KEVIN: Mom?
MOM: I’m so sorry you’re home alone! Your sister accidentally took your jacket that had your AirTag in the pocket, and we were too busy listening to Audible to notice you were missing.
KEVIN: I feel so alone!
MOM: I know, sweetie! We just got to the airport, but we can catch a later flight. We might not get Delta One, alas, but that’s okay. Motion sensors say you’re in my bedroom.
KEVIN: I’m hiding under your bed.
New York Times columnist David Brooks appears at a 2011 dinner with Jeffrey Epstein in the latest set of photos from the House Oversight Committee.
The post NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein. appeared first on The Intercept.
The privilege of describing new species is skewed to Global Northerners
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