Support for America’s two major political parties has been on the decline — and it’s only getting worse. Today political independents by far outnumber the ranks of either Democrats or Republicans. Up to two-thirds of...
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“More blacks, more dogs, more Irish, Mo Chara” read the posters that have been plastered all over London just the day before the trial of rap trio Kneecap’s Mo Chara. The signs are a call...
Last week, the US Army announced the creation of its Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps, a new unit within the Army Reserve that will enlist tech executives as uniformed officers. Among the first few enlistees...
During Chris Wright’s January 2025 confirmation hearing as secretary of energy, his home state senator, John Hickenlooper (D-CO), expressed concern about the pace of climate change. Wright agreed that climate change was a serious issue,...
In the Arthur Conan Doyle story “The Adventure of Silver Blaze,” a key clue for Sherlock Holmes is the failure of a dog to bark when a famed racehorse was taken from his stable. That...
The “No Kings” protests last weekend were a landmark in the burgeoning movement against the destructive and authoritarian second Trump administration. The scale of the rallies was remarkable. Estimates vary from two to six million...
In his campaign for the mayorship of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has proposed replacing fares for the city’s buses with taxes. The reaction to this proposal has been really bizarre and mostly based on...
Pharmaceutical companies are taking advantage of the drug patent system to keep prices of essential medications high, according to a new report — and that includes blockbuster weight-loss drugs and other expensive medications set for...
In September 2024, Susi Air pilot Philip Mehrtens was released after nineteen months in captivity by the West Papuan liberation army and returned to his native New Zealand. Mehrtens’s kidnapping was a personal trauma —...
It was all the fault of Scandinavian social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sweden became a global center for music piracy largely through a perfect storm of universal and high-quality broadband, well-funded...
Zohran Mamdani has shocked the political establishment by turning the New York City mayoral race into a nail-biter. How has a thirty-three-year-old Muslim socialist gotten this close to heading the world’s most economically and politically...
For the past two decades, disastrous Middle East wars have been synonymous with the name Bush. The current US president seems determined to now make them synonymous with the name Trump. It is widely understood...
