Faced With Evolving Threats, U.S. Navy Struggles to Change
A symphony of sorts echoed through the sprawling shipyard on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi — banging, hissing, beeping, horns, bells and whistles — as more than 7,000 workers hustled…
Affirmative Action Is Over. Should Applicants Still Mention Their Race?
Colleges and universities across the country are scrambling to find legal means of maintaining the levels of diversity they would like to see. Though barred from actively using race as…
A Conservative Push to Save Ken Paxton
With television ads and text messages, direct mail and billboards, supporters of the embattled Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, have embarked on an escalating campaign of political pressure, backed by…
Opinion | America Is an Empire in Decline. That Doesn’t Mean It Has to Fall.
America likes to think of itself in garlanded terms. The shining city on a hill. The indispensable nation. The land of the free. There’s something to each sobriquet, to be…
Opinion | How a Gay Republican Sees the Rise in Anti-L.G.B.T.Q. Rhetoric on the Right
When I talked to the political commentator Brad Polumbo, he told me that he wished America could go back to the L.G.B.T.Q. politics of a few years ago, a time…
Back to New Jersey, Where the Universe Began
A few miles away, Robert Dicke, a physicist at Princeton, and his students had begun looking into the conditions under which the universe could have begun, if indeed it had…
Dance Performances, Festivals and More Coming This Fall
BALLETCOLLECTIVE The choreographer Troy Schumacher’s elegant ensemble presents world premieres by Schumacher and Omar Román De Jesús that explore themes of probability and chance. (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, Trinity Commons) PAUL…
The Ancient Patterns of Migration | naked capitalism
By Deborah Barsky, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution and associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, with the Open…
Who Is Rustem Umerov, Zelensky’s Nominee for Defense Minister of Ukraine?
President Volodymyr Zelensky named Rustem Umerov as his choice to be Ukraine’s next defense minister, opting for a prominent member of the Crimean Tatar ethnic group who has played a…
The Arrest of Igor Kolomoysky Consolidates US Influence Over Zelensky Ahead of Likely Elections | naked capitalism
Yves here. It seems difficult to fathom why Igor Kolomoysky returned to Ukraine to get himself arrested, since he was bunkered in Switzerland and reportedly had enough of his former…