Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel’s genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild. The post Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild. appeared first on The Intercept.
From Nick Fuentes to Zohran Mamdani, recent events suggest the future of a headless, increasingly neo-Nazi Republican Party is screwed. The post You Can’t Spell Groyper Without G-O-P appeared first on Truthdig.
For former governor Andrew Cuomo’s corporate allies and ultrawealthy megadonors, purchasing New York City’s 2025 mayoral race should have been business as usual.
The neo-Schumpeterian approach of Philippe Aghion – co-author of The Power of Creative Destruction (2021), among many other books – has had a significant influence on European economic policy since the turn of the century.
Fifty years ago, Morocco threatened to start a war with Spain in order to seize Madrid’s colony in Western Sahara. Hassan II, Morocco’s embattled monarch, rolled out this exercise in brinkmanship on October 16, 1975, just hours after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark opinion calling for the territory’s independence.
Gillian Branstetter Despite the attempts by so many in the party’s establishment to paint trans rights as a toxic issue, transphobia was soundly rejected across the country this week. The post Democrats Can’t Blame Trans People for Their Own Failures appeared first on The Nation.
Friends,It’s a blowout. Mamdani takes New York by storm, with over 50 percent of the vote — despite a torrent of corporate money for Cuomo, who got just 41.6 percent. In Virginia, Spanberger gets 57.1 percent (to the Republican, 42.7 percent). And Democrats secure a significantly larger majority in the House of Delegates.
The sound of the spoken word rising, pausing, the rhythms of the lines, of the stanzas, of the silences, the poem verbalised. The images etched on the walls in black and white, comics, graphic novels, stretching across wall after wall, winding around the room.
It’s the biggest political and economic question ahead
In her review of Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice, Isobel Roele mentions the use of ‘reverse-engineering’ as a method of counter-aesthetics.
The automation of death has been a goal of the US military since 2004. The aim has been to progress from ‘man-in-the-loop’ technology, where a human decides what the technology does, to ‘man-on-the-loop’ system where a human can intervene but does not regularly make decisions, to full automation.
James Vanderbilt’s ‘Nuremberg’ revisits the trial of Hermann Göring. The post The Camps and the Gallows appeared first on Truthdig.
His new film, “Sentimental Value,” is another intimate character study set in the Norwegian capital. His approach to directing is as empathic as his films.
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another. "
An investigation by Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged bulk carrier, Irtysh (IMO: 9664976), operating in defiance of Western sanctions by exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.
What an AI rail plan says about how small our infrastructure dreams have become.
The contemporary discourse on genocide is dominated by international criminal law, designed to punish individuals after the fact. Yet the framework derived from Public International Law and the Genocide Convention’s founding purpose was not punishment but prevention.
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda. The post The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve appeared first on The Intercept.
Trump’s Wag the Dog 2.0 controls the news cycle by continually shifting the presidential focus.
