Israel Orders Gaza ‘Siege,’ Hamas Threatens to Kill Hostages, and More
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EU’s Full Gas Storage Doesn’t Eliminate Supply Risks | naked capitalism
Yves here. This post provides a useful discussion of how far EU gas storage can go in supplying winter needs, as well as the impact of various measures to limit…
Putin Offers Muted Response to Attack on Israel. That Speaks Volumes.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has long cast himself as a friend of Israel and the Jewish people. He helped establish visa-free travel between Russia and Israel in 2008,…
In Search of Kamala Harris
“Why don’t you define each one for me, and then I can tell you where I fit,” she responded. “If you want to say, for example, that believing that working…
Ours Is the Least Artistically Innovative Century in 500 Years
As early as 2006, well before the reverse chronology of blogs and the early Facebook gave way to the algorithmic soup of Instagram, Spotify and TikTok, Winehouse sensed that the…
‘Don’t Do That Again’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Under Fire From Judge
Three days into Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan’s warnings to the defense had become unmistakable. Judge Kaplan, who is presiding over…
The Places That Sam Bankman-Fried Left Behind
Before it all collapsed last fall, the cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried was at the center of a global business empire. The 31-year-old mogul started his first company in the San…
Opinion | There’s a Reason Hasan Minhaj’s Lies Found Such a Big Audience
As my career progressed, I continued to write about these kinds of fraught experiences, in part because I felt it was important to tell these stories but also because editors…
On a New ‘Frasier,’ James Burrows Has a Joke for You
“You can’t learn how to be funny,” James Burrows said. “That has to be instinctual in you.” Burrows, 82, a celebrated director of the multicamera sitcom, has more of that…
Opinion | ‘No Better Than Placebo’
An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration recently concluded that a popular oral decongestant sold over the counter was no better than placebo. The agency now faces the…