How Anti-Immigrant Anger Has Divided a Small Irish Town
On a cold January afternoon in Roscrea, a market town of around 5,500 people in rural Ireland, news began to spread that the town’s only remaining hotel would close temporarily…
Opinion | It Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Is Actually Kind of Awesome
As America closes in on a major election, mistrust is brewing around the mysterious government entity that’s now denounced in scary-sounding terms — “the deep state” and “the swamp.” What…
Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit | naked capitalism
Yves here. The big jump in billionaire wealth was due to taking the starting measurement near the bottom of the Covid market swoon. Nevertheless, some of the prominent examples below…
Walter Massey, a Physicist With a Higher Calling
The day before Walter Massey turned 30, in 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Dr. Massey, then a physicist…
Japan Raises Interest Rates for First Time in 17 Years
Japan’s central bank raised interest rates for the first time since 2007 on Tuesday, pushing them above zero to close a chapter in its aggressive effort to stimulate an economy…
From Russia, Elaborate Tales of Fake Journalists
A young man calling himself Mohamed al-Alawi appeared in a YouTube video in August. He described himself as an investigative journalist in Egypt with a big scoop: The mother-in-law of…
Google Censorship: AI Run Amok Threatens Demonetization Over a Navigation Page with No Ads, An Article on a Foreign Policy Best-Seller Deemed Anti-Vaxx, and More Flagrant Errors | naked capitalism
We posted briefly on a message from our ad service in which Google threatened to demonetize the site. The e-mail listed what it depicted as 16 pasts from 2018 to…
Introduction to Swing States in the Presidential Election of 2024 (General Survey) | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Everybody talks about swing states, but nobody does anything about them. In this essay I will list (easy) and define (a little contested) swing states,…
India’s 2024 General Election: What to Know
Why does this election matter? India is holding its multiphase general elections from April 19 to June 1, in a vote that will determine the political direction of the world’s…
New York Must Figure Out How to Fix Cannabis Mess, Hochul Orders
Gov. Kathy Hochul has told New York officials to come up with a fix for the way the state licenses cannabis businesses amid widespread frustration over the plodding pace of…