Without a doubt, irony plays a large part in the phenomenon of Porky. His mere existence in a fanciful form at a restaurant that specializes in pork meats is deliciously ironic.
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In the annals of national suicide, the present dismantling of the American state will surely rank high. It may not reach the apogee attained by Russia in its final Tsarist days or by Louis XVI in the run-up to the French Revolution, but Great Britain’s Brexit hardly smolders compared to the anti-democratic dumpster fire of the Trump regime. Countless governmental, scientific, educational, medical, and cultural institutions have been targeted for demolition. The problem for the rest of the world is that the behavior of Trumpian America is more than suicidal — it’s murderous. The deaths are mounting. By one accounting, the disruption of overseas food and drug shipments from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), including life-saving HIV,... Read more
Remember the summertime barbecues of childhood? Sunshine, sprinklers, the slurred speech of day-drunk parents? When, as kids, we’d eat potato chips and, alternately, drink lemonade? Delicious, but so inefficient. With a chip in one hand and a lemonade in the other, how did we even eat a hot dog, wave a little American flag, or blow a few fingers off in an unfortunate fireworks accident?
Enter the Utz Lemonade Potato Chip. It’s a summertime limited edition that’s banking on our nostalgia for summers past and the universal desire to save time by combining salty, crunchy snacks with sweet, sour liquids.
Jeff and I (Talia) are coworkers, so, like consolidating every flavor category into one chip, snacking together in the breakroom is a feat of efficiency: We socialize and avoid starvation while earning wages. Triple play!
I like these Utz Lemonade Potato Chips—they’re tangy, like salt and vinegar chips, but also somehow sunny, like the sun—so over lunch with a few colleagues, I lure Jeff into my sweet lemon chip cult.
On July 21, 2021, after Donald Trump had finished his first term as president, he gave an interview at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey to a ghost writer and a publisher who were working on the memoirs of his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. He let them see the secret and still […]
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Dear Everyone Telling My Daughters They Can Be Anything They Want,
Please stop.
I agree with you in spirit, but telling my five and four-year-old daughters they can be anything they want only gets their hopes up, which you’re forcing me to dash. I’m already the bad guy at bedtime, dinner time, and any time that interrupts screen time.
Practically, they can’t be anything they want. For example, as both have requested, neither can become a penguin, an apple tree, or, apparently, the President of the United States. Also, my wife and I are both under 5’5", so a successful basketball player, house painter, and shelf stocker are likely out of the question too. Jockey, you say? We don’t have horse girl(s’) money!
Guess who gets to break the news to my daughters that they can’t intern with Santa? The same person who had to explain that the tooth fairy is a lifetime appointment and no, they’re not currently requesting résumés.
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Years of multimillion-dollar investments by conservative advocacy groups delivered Trump and congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful Betrayal.
- by Rebecca Roache
We think of tears as an overflow of emotion, but an evolutionary lens shows they’re a rational form of social signalling
- by Daniel Sznycer & Debra Lieberman
The diplomatic intervention by a philosopher on a president shows the extraordinary consequences of unlikely meetings
- by Sam Dresser
But our ancient ancestors set the world ablaze 50,000 years ago
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Chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions
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The largest map of the universe reveals giants at the birth of the universe
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Amnesty argues successive UK Governments ‘created the system they now condemn’
The Prime Minister's recent troubles expose how badly our political leaders have lost touch with the shifting demands of the modern era, argues Neal Lawson
Roger Vicquéry and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke While the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1973 has traditionally been seen as heralding a major shift towards floating exchange rates, the extent of this transition away from fixed arrangements has been called into question by a ‘New Consensus’ view. We provide a new index to measure … Continue reading How fixed are global exchange rates?
A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. When we perceive […]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest CPI data yesterday (June 26, 2025) – Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator – for May 2025, which showed that the annual underlying inflation rate, which excludes volatile items continues to fall – from 2.4 per cent to 2.1 per cent. The trimmed mean rate (which the…
Last month the Prime Minister delivered a piece of rhetoric that will define his tenure. In his ‘island of strangers’ speech, Keir Starmer echoed the words of one of British political history’s most divisive figures, Enoch Powell, ahead of the government’s white paper on immigration. One of the key policies announced was the scrapping of […]
David Sirota sat down with the democratic socialist upstart who just won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to discuss his plans for City Hall.
Cooking Time: 30 mins.Preparation time: 20-25 mins.Main cooking utensils: 8-in. pie pan, saucepanOven temperature: 425-450°F reducing to 300°FOven position: center For 4-6 people you need:Basic pie dough:1½ cups all-purpose flourpinch saltscant ½ cup shorteningwater to mix, approximately 2 tablespoons Filling:scant ½ cup long-grain rice1 small bay leaff½ lb. cooked smoked haddock2 tablespoons butter1 eggseasoningpinch mixed […]
Why I became more subscription-conscious (and you should, too).
. I programmet Text och musik med Eric Schüldt — som sänds på söndagsförmiddagarna i P2 — kan man lyssna på seriös musik och en programledare som verkligen har något att säga och inte bara låter ljudrummet dränkas i den kommersiella radions tyckmyckentrutade ordbajseri och pubertalflams. Som så ofta de senaste åren är det den eminente […]