Новости за 23.09.2025

There is no end in sight for the massacre in Gaza. Nearly two years after the start of Al Aqsa Flood, the United Nations Human Rights Council has—finally—declared Israel’s war in Gaza genocide. Seventy-two pages, with hundreds of footnotes, and a litany of atrocity stories catalogue the devastating human destruction. The details are gruesome. Extermination, torture, sexual violence, and starvation are not outliers but the systematic instruments of genocide. More

X-ray of Mira, a four-year-old Palestinian girl, shot in the head by an Israeli sniper. Photo: Mimi Sayed. X-ray of Mira, a four-year-old Palestinian girl, shot in the head by an Israeli sniper. Photo: Mimi Sayed. X-ray of Mira, a four-year-old Palestinian girl, shot in the head by an Israeli sniper. Photo: Mimi Sayed. X-ray […]

The Trump administration’s latest attack on the First Amendment has again raised questions about the meaning of the freedom of speech in the present-day United States. First, I happen to agree with Trump that Jimmy Kimmel is neither funny nor talented. A performer this bad could only have a show in a culture like ours. That said, this firing or dismissal—or whatever it is we’re watching right now—clearly came at the behest of the FCC chair Brendan Carr and is based purely on Kimmel’s Democratic... Читать дальше...

The death of Charlie Kirk has made me think about the growth of the right-wing presence on U.S. campuses during the last three decades. The student right during these years morphed from Ronald Reagan boosters into the neo-Fascist Christian Nationalists of Turning Point, USA. Yet, one of the major reasons for the success of Charlie More

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, a Christian nationalist activist and superstar MAGA organizer, was fatally shot while addressing an audience on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. A couple of days later, the apparent shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, surrendered for the shooting and — as reported by CNN — it was More

It has become common in recent months for people in the business press to note both that AI stocks seem to be in a bubble and that this bubble is driving the economy. In many ways this situation looks similar to the late 1990s tech bubble. At that time, price-to-earnings ratios in the stock market More

Many people in the United States are understandably jaded by our current politics. Partisan divisions and corporate special interest domination of the agenda seemingly stymie solutions to our myriad problems, leaving ordinary citizens frustrated at our collective inability to advance sustainable solutions. And yet, there are times when a situation is so dire, and the More

It is a sad fact of online life that users search for information about suicide. In the earliest days of the internet, bulletin boards featured suicide discussion groups. To this day, Google hosts archives of these groups, as do other services. Google and others can host and display this content under the protective cloak of More

Tropical fish are among the most popular pets in the world, with millions sold every year to brighten aquariums in homes, offices, and even car dealerships. Yet behind their vibrant colors lies a hidden crisis. Most buyers don’t realize that fish are sentient animals who can feel pain, remember, and form social bonds—and that caring More

Zohran Mamdani, the likely new mayor of New York City, was 17 in December 2008 when his accomplished filmmaker mother Mira Nair, with son in tow, led a free walking tour of Delhi.  She showed the stark realities of the lives of Indian street and working children.  The small group walked the rough, narrow back More