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Taliban Official Mocks US for Rejecting Kamala Harris: 'Americans Are Not Ready to Hand Over' Country 'to a Woman'
A Taliban official mocked Americans' reluctance to elect a female leader after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory.
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This Is What $44 Billion Buys You
Elon Musk has turned X into a political weapon.
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Fairy tales
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A new book reveals much of Trump’s success is based on a myth he is a self-made billionaire
A new book sorts the myths from the facts in a comprehensive account of how the former president became the United States’ most powerful businessmen.
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Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping.
A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
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The US Empire Isn’t A Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It’s A Nonstop War That Runs A Government
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens …
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Pro-Israel Group Censoring Social Media Led by Former Israeli Intelligence Officers
CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct in the Gaza war by claiming such speech is tantamount to Holocaust denial
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Fear as a Game
What can the philosophy of games tell us about our odd impulse to scare ourselves? By Elisa Gabbert
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Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!
At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise. By Hamilton Nolan
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Welsh government commits to making lying in politics illegal
Labour administration says ‘globally pioneering’ legislation will be brought in before next Senedd elections in 2026
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‘We’ve all enabled the situation’
Dems turn on Biden’s inner sanctum
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Twelve Biden Administration Resignees Blast 'Intransigent' Gaza Policy
Joe Biden "has prioritized politics over just and fair policymaking" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former government officials argued in their first joint statement since quitting. By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Running Amok
The conduct on display in Gaza is part psychological warfare, part colonial theatre, part occupation soldiers having fun, and none of it is new. By Mary Turfah
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The Shareholder Supremacy
“Jack Welch’s damage to the corporate world and society is more like that of a war criminal. He showed corporate America how unprofitable a soul was.”
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Markets and the Law
Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.
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Why Doesn’t International Law Apply to the West?
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Belgium in a nutshell
And probably alot of other countries also. Cartoon made by @ahoy-universe
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What Happens When We Stop Remembering?
Confronted with her parents' dementia and teenagers' climate anxiety, one woman considers how our baselines shift in the face of personal — and global — loss. By Heidi Lasher
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Biden’s Gaza Double Talk with Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Another [Long Reads] special episode about the Israeli war on Gaza
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We Need To Talk About "Authoritarianism"
This week we're talking about perhaps the most widely misused term in all of politics - authoritarianism. Why is it so misunderstood? Let's take a look.
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