Rare video shows killer whale teaching its baby to hunt
Video filmed by a whale watching company off the Coast of San Diego shows a mature orca teaching its younger calf how to hunt. The group of killer whales was…
Biden grants pardons for certain marijuana offences
“I really wish he [Mr Biden] would just sit down and talk to someone who has an incarcerated parent, that has grown up without their parent because they’re incarcerated, but…
Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Big Trump Test Is Here
A generation after the Supreme Court stepped into a disputed presidential election, America is experiencing a creeping sense of déjà vu. Twenty-three years ago, a bare majority of the justices…
Opinion | The Anti-Democratic Quest to Save Democracy From Trump
Let’s consider a counterfactual. In the autumn of 2016, with American liberalism reeling from the election of Donald Trump, a shattered Hillary Clinton embraces the effort to pin all the…
Opinion | The Church, Living in Christmas Past
My mom loved Christmas so much, she would sometimes leave the tree up until April. She dyed a sheet blue for the sky behind the crèche and made a star…
Opinion | How Two Election Workers Bankrupted Rudy Giuliani
No sooner did a jury deliver a nearly $150 million defamation judgment against the former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani than he went out and again started smearing the…
Links 12/23/2023 | naked capitalism
Psychologists Pinpoint Average Age Children Become Santa Sceptics Guardian See the moon and Jupiter enjoy their final meet-up of 2023 tonight Space (furzy) Vibrating Pill May Give Dieters a Feeling…
Being “Pro-American” Today Means Disaster for Latin America, with “Monroe Doctrine” Coming Back | naked capitalism
Yves here. Before anyone over-reacts to the headline, recall that Kissinger said, “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” For Latin America,…
The Morning Readers’ Favorite Things of 2023
Pay your friends to mend your clothes, recommends Sam Schultz, from Boston. (Presumably these friends are handy with a needle and thread.) Described by one reader as “the best transformative…
It Wouldn’t Be Make-Believe if You’d Believe in Me
On This Week’s Episode: A major political party in a major swing state bets on a new leader: a total political outsider. How does that work out? The New York…