If Adam Smith were alive and well and on Twitter/X, here’s the name he would have called Donald Trump: “underling tradesman.” Here’s the i...

A man was found dead in a “pool of blood” at the Burning Man festival Saturday night – just as a massive human-shaped wooden effigy was being torched in the Nevada desert, according to authorities.…

A bit late to the party, I finally caught up with Maureen Dowd’s column on how men who read fiction are sexy -- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/opinion/reading-men-fiction-sexy.html?unlocked_articl...

To the freed hostages and current hostages who claim that recognizing a Palestinian state risks “rewarding terrorism,” I ask, what terrorism are we rewarding by doing nothing?

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books: Invisible communities (in process)/Stealth of Nations/Shadow cities continuing obsessions: bottom down economics manual typewriters rye bread

Just to point out that this headline in The New York Times

Everyone has their own life-long form of Alzheimer’s.

In Kibera – the largest and most well-known mud-hut neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya – in 2002, everyone I met was either deeply involved in a church or planning to start their own church.

If Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were truly proud of what they were doing and thought it was legal and above board, they wouldn’t be parading around like bank robbers, using bandanas an...

I am writing this because I came across something antisemitic the other day.

The same day that Donald Trump pardoned a convicted tax cheat whose Mom gave $1 million for a seat at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser, immigration agents arrested a Bronx high school student whose only crime ...

European leaders who criticize Israel are ‘on the wrong side of humanity’ says Israeli man responsible for killing 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza and for the intelligence failures that led to the Hamas a...

… and institutions in the US are still punishing people who speak out about it.

Mohsen Mahdawi knows more about what it means to live in a free country than any of the people who imprisoned him.

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The Israeli military really has no shame.

Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’

a reflection on an article from The New York Times Magazine

Excellent story, nytimes.

what's in a dash?

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I stand with Mahmoud Khalil

Biden is as free from political constraints as he’s ever been. Yet he has chosen to seal his legacy as Israel’s tepid enabler

Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims say the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction.

The long read: After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just th...

In blocking the newspaper from endorsing Kamala Harris, Jeff Bezos is not acting cowardly so much as slyly

On leave as Uber’s chief legal officer, Tony West plays a pivotal role in the Harris presidential campaign — raising concerns about possible conflicts of interest.

A note from our owner.

Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?

The former president and his allies railed against Democratic rival Kamala Harris at a rally a little over a week before election day. Both Trump and Harris will barnstorm battleground states this wee...

Later, Trump took the stage and called the GOP “the party of inclusion.” His campaign issued a statement disavowing the “garbage” comment.