Travis King: US soldier in N Korea had been held after fighting in Seoul
Travis King spent time in a detention facility after getting into fights and hitting a police car.
Links 7/20/2023 | naked capitalism
Rare Fossil May Show a Small Mammal Attacking a Dinosaur Smithsonian. Encouraging! The Santiago Boys Evgeny Morozov. “A wild tale of how Allende’s engineers and a British management consultant dared…
‘Baked tnto the Frameworks’: Archeologist Reveals ‘3 Pervasive Myths’ That Blind Us to the Past | naked capitalism
By Gary M. Feinman, an archaeologist and the MacArthur curator of Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Cross-posted from Alternet. The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border,…
John Helmer: The Mosquito Swarm and the Violent Pinprick Are Zelensky PR To Beat NATO’s Christmas Deadline | naked capitalism
Lambert here: Musical interlude: [embedded content] By John Helmer, the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his own bureau independent of single…
Tiered Work Forces
Universities devote a smaller share of faculty slots to tenured professorships than in the past — and hire more adjunct professors who have little chance for promotion. Law firms employ…
Frustrated by Biden, China Courts ‘Old Friends’ Like Kissinger
The red carpet welcome in Beijing for Henry A. Kissinger, the 100-year-old former secretary of state, included China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, telling him that “the Chinese people will always…
Opinion | The Strange Unseriousness of No Labels
In May, when a Problem Solvers Caucus member, Representative Brad Schneider of Illinois, said he wasn’t into this idea of a third-party ticket, No Labels sent this insane text to…
Heat Affects Older People More. Here’s How to Stay Safe.
We are experiencing the hottest days in history. Heat waves have blanketed the Northern Hemisphere this week, with temperatures reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit on three continents. Extreme heat can be…
Quick to Mock MAGA, Biden Stays Silent on Trump Indictments
For months, President Biden has appeared to delight in needling Donald J. Trump and his Republican allies, trying at every turn to make MAGA and ultra-MAGA a shorthand for the…
Inside the Private Writings of Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in the FTX Case
Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old chief executive of the crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was racked with self-doubt. “I have been feeling…