Yves here. The mind-reading technology is deeply troubling. We already have too many tech created and enabled losses of privacy. The researchers are troubled too but that is not stopping…
The news that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly shot and killed last month in Gaza by soldiers meant to save them outraged many in Israel, who have since demanded answers…
American, Israeli and Lebanese officials insist that few parties want Israel’s war in Gaza to become a wider conflict that engulfs the Middle East. But the assassination of a top…
Yves here. Les Leopold gives a layperson-friendly, high-level overview of how health care’s high costs, particularly those draining the cash cow of Medicare, are due to corporate profiteering. I have…
Yves here. Now that the Global South, or as many prefer, the Global Majority countries have more economic heft and are collectively exerting more political power, the idea of lumping…
Court documents related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein are expected to be released soon with many names that were previously redacted, and prominent figures on the right are holding…
As smoke filled the cabin of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after its fiery landing in Tokyo on Tuesday, the sound of a child’s voice rose above the din of confusion…
Emergency room doctors in Texas are not required to perform emergency abortions despite federal guidance that requires hospitals to offer stabilizing care, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The…
On certain rare occasions, ordinary people in the midst of an average day have changed history. In 1947, Muhammad edh-Dhib, a young Bedouin shepherd looking for a sheep gone astray,…
Melanie La Barrie thought she would make it through her last performance of “& Juliet” without succumbing to tears. She was mistaken — though contributing factors include that it was…