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Every accusation is a confession. This is clearly true of the Trump administration’s insistence that Venezuela operates as a “narco-state,” exporting terrorism to the U.S. via fentanyl, now labeled as a “weapon of mass destruction.” The charge is not only false, given that virtually no fentanyl enters the country from Venezuela, but transparently political and pretextual. More

The Trump administration has issued a death warrant for science. This kills one of America’s greatest most productive avenues to GDP growth. Simple-minded people are determining the future course of the country. After all, science is foundational to America’s economy. More

We are today living in an era of historically ferocious political regression, a massive conservative backlash whose grievances are often more imagined than real. In no case is this more dramatic than race. Notwithstanding the fact that Nick Fuentes is preaching white victimhood to millions, the Coast Guard has declassified nooses and swastikas as hate symbols, and the Supreme Court has eliminated voting rights protections and affirmative action, African Americans continue to be discriminated against. Читать дальше...

I wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post would age poorly. After all, the presence of a trillionaire on American soil would certify that we had unquestionably reached an oligarchic concentration of our nation’s wealth. Unfortunately, More

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper, released this month, is filled with nasty, nativist language and half-truths straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. But amidst the bluster about historic success in strengthening national security and claims about resolving wars is a stark reminder of the direction US foreign policy is taking, which looks More

Two hundred and fifty years ago, European colonists mostly from Britain were conspiring to chase the elements of the British monarchy from the shores of what we now call the United States. Many of those in the conspiracy were mostly interested in personal financial gain, whether it was measured in stolen land, enslaved humans or More

It’s been one of the strangest cricket series on record.  Hurried, frenetic, foolish, haphazard and, at points, unbecomingly immature.  The cricket between England and Australia in this, the 2025-6 Ashes series, was a recreational coke line, a narcotics fix, a dopamine thrill.  But was it even cricket?  One thinks of those deathless lines from the French general Pierre Bosquet More

Nature is astonishingly diverse. Across the planet’s oceans, forests, grasslands, and cities, living beings interact in ways that defy rigid expectations. Yet when it comes to discussing queer behaviors in the natural world, we often hear only a handful of familiar examples: same-sex penguin couples raising chicks, male seahorses giving birth, or dolphins engaging in More

Can’t Lose My (Soul) Annie & the Caldwells (Luaka Bop) Luminescent Creatures Ichiko Aoba (Psychic Hotline) After the Last Sky Anour Brahem (ECM) Apple Cores James Brandon Lewis Trio (Anti-) Exile Chronixx (Forever Living) New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band (Tough Love) Praise the Loud Anthony Gomes (Rat Pack) Hard More