Donald Trump Sexually Abused and Defamed E. Jean Carroll, Jury Finds
A Manhattan jury on Tuesday found former President Donald J. Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. More than a…
Mass Incarceration’s Impact on US Life Expectancy | naked capitalism
Yves here. Highly unequal societies have lower life expectancy, even for high income cohorts, compared to the top wealthy in more equal countries. But the life span costs are more…
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2023 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am finishing up a post on Mass General’s Kafka-esque and brutally stupid new masking policy, where patients are not allowed to ask…
Among the Victims in Texas Shooting: A Wounded 6-Year-Old Who Lost His Parents and Brother
Cindy and Kyu Cho brought their two little boys to the Allen Premium Outlets to exchange a birthday present that didn’t fit their older son, who had just turned 6.…
Sam Bankman-Fried, in First Detailed Defense, Seeks to Dismiss Charges
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has issued his first detailed legal defense since prosecutors accused him of fraud, seeking to dismiss several of the charges…
In Rape Trial, Jury Must Now Decide if It Believes Carroll or Trump
As the civil trial over the writer E. Jean Carroll’s allegation that former President Donald J. Trump raped her neared its end, one of her lawyers focused on the man…
Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage
“You can’t wear that flamenco dress for the El Rocío pilgrimage, Bonita,” Maria Cárdenas, our Airbnb host, said with a laugh. “You’ll die in the heat.” She pinched the thick…
China Retaliates After Canada Expels Its Diplomat Amid Interference Concerns
A major diplomatic rift erupted between Canada and China on Tuesday as Beijing expelled a Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move just hours after Ottawa said it had ordered a…
In Parched Arizona, the Produce Gardens Bloom
Kim Elle had never grown anything more complicated than houseplants when she and her husband moved from Georgia to suburban Phoenix in 2021. Faced with a sizable yard in a…
Why Do American Diners Have Such a Limited Palate for Textures?
A JELLYFISH TASTES of nothing. Maybe a little salt — a trace of the sea, or of how the creature is packed, once wrested from its natural habitat, for preservation…