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World roundup: November 20 2024

Foreign Exchanges

Spirit Airlines CEO Got A $3.8 Million Bonus A Week Before Its Bankruptcy

Spain Is Being Flooded by Devastating Storms — The Climate Crisis Is to Blame

Foreign Policy In Focus

Surviving the New Trump Era

Foreign Policy In Focus

Lone-Wolf Terrorism: A Threat to Public Safety or A Catalyst for Public Hysteria?

Foursquare open sources location data

‘Ascension Hospital…is making a mockery of the Church doctrine’: Baltimore Catholic nurses picket Bishops for fair contract

Real News Network

Stephen Harper’s ‘moral clarity’ in defense of Israeli exceptionalism

Canadian Dimension

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas

What Will a Peace Movement Look Like Under Trump's Second Presidency?

Bernie Sanders Is Leading a Bold New Effort to Block Arms Sales to Israel

The Green New Deal from Below

Foreign Policy In Focus

How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?

Astral Codex Ten

Top Links 566 Power prices. How will migrants and smugglers respond to the Trump shock? Prisons of power and Keynes on fairy dust.

Temperature tree blanket

November 20, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Bernie Sanders Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza” — But Loses Votes to Block Arms for Israel

Alberta Pledges Constitutional Showdown Over Emissions Cap

Rebuild NC’s Embattled Director Is No Longer a State Employee, a Memo Confirms

Inside Climate News

The entire history of Zionism’s injustices, in one Bedouin village

Climate Finance Outcome at COP29 Still in Doubt

Inside Climate News

November 19, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Trump Taps Ex-Pipeline Lobbyist Sean Duffy for Transportation Secretary

ECB’s Own Measure of Wage Increases Blows Fuse, Sets Off Alarms about Stubbornly Hot Services Inflation

It’s Not Just Oil Giants Seeking to Sway the Climate Talks. Their Favourite PR Firms Are in Baku, Too.

There’s a Reason Oil Well Sales Are Collapsing In California: Cleanup Costs

Capital and Main

Senators Have a Chance to Halt Weapons Sales to Israel. Will They Take It?

How communities are giving new life to polluted land

Culture and Identity

Contrasting Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman

It’s the Economic Reporting, Stupid

The Endless, Perplexing Controversies Over (How We Talk About) Lamar Jackson

Concentric Forms Escape the Confines of the Ceramic Vessel in Matthew Chambers’s Sculptures

New York Review of Books

Why Old English Matters

Hollie Chastain Lands a Playful Series of Collaged UFOs

Visualising the atomic nucleus

Doctors Are Taught to Lie About Race

Learn to tune into birdsong – respite and fascination await

The Nigerian people must own their resistance

Africa is a Country

Myriam Dion Weaves Milestones of Women’s History from Vintage Newspapers

Failed Architecture’s Top Fails

Failed Architecture

The push to criminalize face coverings puts everyone at risk....

Baffler Magazine

Angry Young Men for Trump

On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All the...

London Review of Books

Should the Arctic Really Brace for an Invasion from China or Russia?

The people who live there would rather see more housing and maybe some dentists The post Should the Arctic Really Brace...

Belgium’s answer to Queen Victoria

On “Louise d’Orléans, First Queen of the Belgians: A Romantic Destiny” at the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, France....

Bruckner, from Berlin

On a concert of the Berlin Philharmonic, under Kirill Petrenko, at Carnegie Hall....

A Novel of India’s Identity Crisis

Fictionalizing the Modi era....

Baffler Magazine

Videos and Podcasts

Freakhunter matched my FREAK (and it was AMAZING!) | Renegade Cut

Dilemmas | The Economics of War & Peace Episode 6

New Economic Thinking

My Embarrassing Filming Mishap

Tom Nicholas YT

What Once Saved Intel

What Trump's win means for Canadian politics

Electoral Politics Requires Activism To Make Real Change

The Intercept YT

What Radical Action Under Trump Looks Like

The Intercept YT

Nobel Winner wrong About AI? Noah Smith Breaks It Down

Whatever Happened to Millimeter-Wave 5G?

2374 - Foreign Policy & The Future Of Public Health Under Trump w/ Matt Duss, Gregg Gonsalves

Majority Report

Episode 212: Gaza and the Political Utility of Selective Empathy

Citations Needed

Could ranked choice voting fix our elections?

2373 - News Day Tuesday! Letter Carriers Fight For Fair Pay w/ Tyler Vasseur

Majority Report

Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails

The Ezra Klein Show

Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)

New Books Network - Politics

Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US election and Trump redux (part one)

Politics Theory Other

2372 - What Will Education Look Like Under Trump? w/ Josh Cowen

Majority Report

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