Wrestling With His Past. And an Animatronic Shark.
In a rehearsal space near Times Square, Ian Shaw was talking about the strange and solemn task of portraying his own father in a Broadway play that he had co-written.…
Opinion | What the Joe Manchin-No Labels Fantasy Gets Wrong About America
For as long as Americans have had partisan political competition, they have hated partisanship itself. By his second term in office, in the mid-1790s, President George Washington faced organized political…
The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin
On Jan. 11, 2020, in Shanghai, just 11 days after first reports of the outbreak in Wuhan circulated globally, a team of scientists led by Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University…
Opinion | Susan Faludi Thinks ‘Barbie’ Is a Delight. She Also Thinks It’s About Abortion.
Susan Faludi suggested we show up to the “Barbie” movie in a pink Corvette, but unfortunately, the only car available was a pickup truck. So that was how one of…
Biden Takes His Battle for Democracy Case by Case
President Biden has made it his mission to wage what he momentously calls “the battle between democracy and autocracy.” But what to do when the ones he believes are undermining…
Russian Attack Threatens Even Alternative Routes for Ukrainian Grain
For shipping companies looking for a way to bring Ukrainian grain to global markets, the options keep dwindling, escalating a trade crisis that is expected to add pressure on global…
Opinion | Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons
In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the son of a painter and a textile importer, was appointed to lead Project Y, the military effort established by the Manhattan Project to develop…
Biden to Create Monument to Emmett Till Amid Fights Over Black History
President Biden on Tuesday will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was abducted and killed by white supremacists in 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley,…
Opinion | Undoing Health System Monopolies May Be a Lost Cause
When Mark Finney moved to southwestern Virginia with his young family a decade ago, there were different hospital systems and a range of independent doctors to choose from. But when…
James Galbraith: How Central Bank Myths and Practices Support Financiers and Dollar Hegemony | naked capitalism
Yves here. Richard Murphy summarized an important paper by James Galbraith, which takes on two different, but actually somewhat related, central bank fixations. One is the loanable funds theory, which…