Alexandra Hall Hall delivers the big reset speech she wishes the Prime Minister actually had made after Labour's local elections defeats
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Went for a hug when they offered a handshake? This delightful animation reminds us we’re never alone in our awkwardness
- Directed by Nata Metlukh
I hate talk of resilience: it places an expectation on people to return to how they were. That’s not how real recovery works
- by Philip T Starks
We need a new imagination for the whole Earth, linking the power of the deep planet with the vitality of the surface
- by James Dinneen
The London Mayor talks to Byline Times about how ten years of rising algorithmic online hate has transformed our politics and put his own safety at risk
U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.
The post We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media appeared first on The Intercept.
A legal disciplinary panel won’t disclose any details about its inquiry into John Sarcone, a Trump loyalist in New York.
The post A Trump U.S. Attorney’s Professional Misconduct Must Be Kept “Private and Confidential” appeared first on The Intercept.
Cooking time: 45 mins.Preparation time: 20 mins. plus time to setMain cooking utensil: saucepan For 4-6 servings you need:½ cup rice (preferably long grain)1¼ cups water2½ cups milk¼ teaspoon vanilla extract¼ cup sugar⅔ cup seedless raisins⅓ cup seedless white raisins3 tablespoons rum or brandy⅓ cup candied peel⅔ cup whipping cream Topping:⅓-½ cup cherry jam or […]
The controversial event and the NYPD’s response to resulting protests present a test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The post Israeli Real Estate Expo Advertising West Bank Settlements Returns to NYC appeared first on The Intercept.
“Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of ‘viewpoint diversity,’ according to two people familiar with the initiative.”
— The Harvard Crimson
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On behalf of the university, I’m pleased to announce our earnest and long-overdue commitment to diversifying our faculty. No, not the reckoning we broadcast to great fanfare in 2020, which we have repudiated in exchange for federal funding. No, I refer instead to “viewpoint” diversity.
For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education. Many ideas that enjoy enormous popularity among billionaires—cryogenic immortality, disregard for punctuation, the Antichrist—have scandalously been excluded from our labs and classrooms.
“The bottles bear the imprint of the Kentucky distillery Woodford Reserve, and are engraved with the words KASH PATEL FBI DIRECTOR, as well as a rendering of an FBI shield. Surrounding the shield is a band of text featuring Patel’s director title and his favored spelling of his first name: Ka$h. An eagle holds the shield in its talons, along with the number 9, presumably a reference to Patel’s place in the history of FBI directors.” — The Atlantic
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Crack the seal on this uniquely squat bottle and, right away, the Woodford Reserve Director Ka$h Patel Kash Patel FBI Director signature bourbon opens with notes of cherry, a secondary zest of orange peel, and lingering funk of insurrection on the nose. It’s heady and strong, eager to prove its worth.
I’ve just written a ‘top 10′ overview of Avi Lewis’ plan to impose federal rent control. Here’s the link to the post:
In this award-winning short, inmates and college students explore the history of incarceration from inside a US prison
- by Aeon Video
For years I watched people through cameras and screens, filling in the blanks and calling it truth
- by Tyler Thier
The emotional and practical skills of adulthood can only be learned from (appropriate) levels of discomfort and stress
- by Niklas Serning & Nina Lyon
Last week Australia’s central bank (Reserve Bank of Australia, RBA) raised interest rates. Again. Political economists have been talking for decades about the RBA’s tendency to redistribute wealth from the bottom upwards. But now it seems most people understand that the latest interest rate rises requires ordinary people to hand over more of their cash […]
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May 11th, 2026: Unrelated, but I just saw one, so: shout out to birds! Last week, the RBA increased interested rates claiming there was a growing capacity constraint (even though there is 10.2 per cent labour underutilisation) and inflationary expectations were increasing and in danger of propelling inflation even further. The RBA governor once again threatened the Treasurer along the lines of ‘unless you cut net spending we will…
Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change them: that’s the credo of parties such as Labour and the Democrats. Don’t challenge voters on the […]
Join several of Canada’s leading heterodox and progressive economists for an introduction to theories, tools, and policy applications that go beyond the bounds of conventional free-market economics. This one-day course immediately precedes the annual meetings of the Canadian Economics Association in Vancouver. Thursday May 28, 9:30am – 4:30pm Simon Fraser University Downtown Campus (515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver) Free Registration! [...]
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 10, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Mother’s Day Heather Cox Richardson, May 10, 2026 [Letters from an American, May 9, 2026] If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. […]
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