The Epstein scandal, Gaza genocide and 50 years of neoliberalism have shown beyond doubt that our” mis-leadership” class don’t give a flying fig about “the children”.
Read more...How the porky US military machine is also stretched thin, and what that implies for an Iran conflict.
Read more...A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow”.
Read more...Yet another example of BRICS boosters being way out over their skis.
Read more...Per Thomas Neuburger ‘Democratic’ life began millions of years ago. It died with the birth of the city-state.
Read more...What might happen if New York City Mayor Mamdani delivers on increasing income and corporate taxes to the next level?
Read more...Renters in Minnesota who’ve been afraid to go to work due to ICE thuggery and allies in labor plan a historic rent strike
Read more...Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.
Read more...The collapse of nuclear arms control is not returning the world to Cold War stability, but pushing it into a more complex and less governable nuclear order. As treaties lapse, latent up-arming capacity, compressed decision times, and multi-actor deterrence dynamics combine to raise systemic risk. This article examines how the erosion of formal limits—rather than malign intent—has made nuclear escalation easier, more opaque, and more dangerous, and why the United States bears central responsibility for dismantling the institutional architecture that once constrained catastrophe.
Read more...All six Latin American leaders share an ideological affinity with Trump, and are the closest thing his government has to strategic partners/vassals in the region.
Read more...Why the economics discipline has ignored John Ruskin’s seminal concept of illith, as in destructive activity.
Read more...A study in Brazil found that urban slums can offer upward mobility due to access to public education. But how true is that around the world?
Read more...Ralph Linton, arguably the father of what we now call identity politics, had some impressive insights as well as blind spots.
Read more...Defamation is a movie about the exploitation of anti-Semitism to keep Jews fearful and compliant.
Read more...Agricultural employers are scrambling to find replacements and the administration is turning to guest workers.
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