Month: November 2023

Compared to a Republican representative allegedly receiving “a clean shot to the kidneys” from another representative this week, the House passing a plan to avert a government shutdown and keep…

Rayne Fisher-Quann grew up with no shortage of feminist influences. There was her mother, who brought home a book about the problems with Barbie and banned the actual dolls. There…

And in 2014, the comments section became the target of a harassment campaign. Jessica Coen: We were getting flooded in the comments with violent GIFs, really nasty pornographic stuff. We…

On Oct. 18, I resigned from the State Department because I could not support the provision of U.S. weapons into the conflict in Gaza, where I knew that they would…

Yves here. We’ve featured many posts and links on the raw materials demands of the hoped-for uptake of green energy, how some critical ones appear to be in inadequate supply,…

For all the talk about converting New York City’s languishing office buildings into housing, just one neighborhood has done it on a large scale: the financial district. In the past…

It’s a message that has not been prominently heard or seen in many American protests and rallies. Most events have taken place under an Israeli or Palestinian flag, focusing on…

In Washington, President Xi Jinping of China is largely considered a mysterious autocrat who has long harbored a fatalistic view of his country’s relationship with the United States. But for…

Less than 24 hours after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X as “the actual truth” of what Jewish people were doing, IBM paused its advertising on the social…

When President Biden met President Xi Jinping on Wednesday on the edges of Silicon Valley, there was a subtle but noticeable shift in the power dynamic between two countries that…