An Alternative to Breaking News, Report
Jo Lauder at ABC News (of Australia): Whether you drive an electric car or are considering making the switch, you’ve probably been drawn into a discussion about whether they are
William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Will Selber at The Bulwark: Ever since the “Stop the Steal” campaign in the aftermath of the 2020 election, the relentless barrage of election lies
Continue readingDinesh D’Souza’s Movie ‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, But Still Lodged in Grandma’s Brain
A poet who I respect told me the other night thatmy stuff wasn’t really poetry because: A.) There were too many jokes,B.) I didn’t slice enough arteries,andC.) It was… Gork.
Yuxin Zhou at The Conversation: While Greenland is losing huge volumes of ice right now – worryingly comparable to a midrange Heinrich event – the ice loss will likely not
Continue readingAtlantic Ocean Current Might Not Shut Down So Soon
Ronald Sievert at The Conversation: The facts and the law behind New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s successful prosecution of Donald Trump could be argued at length. But as a
Continue readingYes, Donald Trump Has a Point About Political Prosecution
Mehdi Hasan at Zeteo: I first interviewed Imran Khan back in 2010, in print, for the New Statesman. In the 14 years since, I have spoken to him on multiple
Habib Khan from Quetta: During the independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s, many of the educated and well-settled people of Balochistan left their jobs to join the political movement,
Farrukh K. Pitafi at The Express Tribune: Absolutely Anything is a 2015 science fiction fantasy comedy film in which all living members of the Monty Python crew and Robin Williams
Continue readingThis is the Problem With Good Intentions and Radical Ideas
“They may not be evidence of UFOs, ancient spirits or secret weapons, but there is something magical in their allure–they do act as magnets for mystical tourism”, says The Smithsonian.
Kat Rosenfield at The Free Press: Five years ago, all my girlfriends suddenly decided to abandon their husbands en masse. That is how it seemed at the time, at least.
Continue readingKat Rosenfield: Glamorizing a Marital Split is Narcissism Disguised as Feminism
I chanced across my old selftoday. I was sitting in the secondfloor office where I used to work —at the typewriter, young, thin guy,in his late 20’s, white shirt, narrowdark
by Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: In 1494, the expansionary Iberian powers negotiated the Treaty of Tordesillas to officially divvy up the planet’s freshly discovered regions beyond Europe. Over 370
Continue readingBrazil: A Melting-pot Genetic Present and an Uncharted Deep Past