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Waters of Geopolitics: Why Is the Indus River System So Violently Contested?

Foreign Policy In Focus

Chartbook 388: Trump v. Musk - Alien v. Predator or "death march" into a political vacuum?

Knocking Down the Pillars of Democracy

Reduced sampling for Consumer Price Index estimates

Top Links 761 The limits of China's domestic market. Gold digging in Syria. African drone poliferation & the making of Balamory.

Wake Up and Smell the Corruption

Krugman Wonks Out

Steve Bannon: Nationalize SpaceX

An "abundance" theory of power

2025.23: What Nike Learned About E-Commerce

Magnus Carlsen chess match against the wisdom of crowds ends in a draw

World roundup: June 5 2025

Foreign Exchanges

In Blue Cities, Abundance Will Require Fighting Labor Unions

17 thoughts on the Trump-Elon feud

Silver Bulletin

Amid New McCarthyism, the Alliance for Texas History Embraces Diverse Scholarship

A Better Solution for Dating in the 21st Century

Uncharted Territories

What defunding public media would mean for the West

High Country News

Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back.

Shoot First, Then Aim: A Look at Alberta’s Petrostate Separatists

Major HIV breakthrough + 4 more stories

News Minimalist

On Thomas Mann’s 150th birthday, an essay on covid and late capitalism

Trump’s attacks on the Department of Labor will hurt wages and working conditions

Economic Policy Institute

May jobs report sends mixed signals: Solid payroll gains contrast with a weaker household survey and a continued decline in federal government employment

Economic Policy Institute

What Next for Zia Yusuf – the Butler to Billionaires Who Became Reform’s Ringleader?

Two Poems by Patrick King

Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound

Texas Lawmakers Pull Funding for Child Identification Kits Again After Newsrooms Report They Don’t Work

Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

Culture

Natural Motifs Entwine the Monumental Figures of Robert Pruitt’s Divine Portraits

Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal

AI Hype and the Tech Slowdown are Symmetrical

Goïta, gift to the insurgents

Africa is a Country

“The Pitt” and “ER” Show the Opposing Realities of Doctors and Patients

Electric Literature

Why philosophy of physics?

Reskate’s Youthful Murals Transform into Glowing Symbols of Peace

NYT Goes Silent on Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Voyage

Doomscroll: Hasan Piker

Joshua Citarella's Newsletter

Color Therapy: Explore the Colossal Shop’s New Summer Collection

Activists Await NYT Podcast on Trans Care With Justifiable Dread

Doomscroll: Hasan Piker II

Joshua Citarella's Newsletter

The 2025 Berggruen Institute Essay Prize Contest

The post The 2025 Berggruen Institute Essay Prize Contest appeared first on NOEMA....

On Edmund White

‘I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a group been placed on such...

London Review of Books

Botched by Design

A new book sanitizes the racialized violence of the death penalty practice....

Baffler Magazine

Alberta Is Talking about Separating—AGAIN

What's their problem? The post Alberta Is Talking about Separating—AGAIN first appeared on The Walrus....

My Mother Was My Critic

She made me wear lipstick and perfect my posture. I loved—and hated—her for it The post My Mother Was My Critic...

In a Facebook post from 2012, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who had just spent time in Tora prison, south of Cairo, begs...

London Review of Books

Are Americans responsible for sickness & death in Sudan?

On a recent New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof....

Videos and Podcasts

What's Next for Southeast Asia's Data Center Boom?

MemeAnalysis on The Tree of Life and Chinese Wisdom

The Moment America Changed Forever

The Gay 90's: the first cultural "decade"

Japan’s Recent Rice Price Crisis

Trump Is Using El Salvador's Jails Because They're Outside the Rule of U.S. Law #politics #trump

The Intercept YT

How John Lennon Wrote "A Day In The Life"

When will AI automate literally every job?

Rational Animations

What if John Wick movies were VIDEO GAMES? | Renegade Cut

Best Of: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

The Ezra Klein Show

2512 - AOC Endorses Zohran; Neocons Disrupt Trump's Iran Talks w/ Trita Parsi

Majority Report

Episode 480 - Towards a New U.N. (w/ Craig Mokhiber)

On Ancient History and Our Shared Heritage: Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel

Tides of History

Cryptology (SECRET CODES) with Simon Singh

2511 - Palantir's Role in Government Surveillance & Activists Disrupting ICE w/ Makena Kelly & Roberto Camacho

Majority Report

Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves

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What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health

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