Opinion | Don’t Flee the American Southwest Just Yet
This summer, when the temperature hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit or above in Phoenix for 31 straight days, many were fretting about the Southwest’s prospects in the age of climate change.…
Opinion | I Was Transformed by the Best Cult Ever: Michigan Football
I went to Ann Arbor, Mich., for a journalism fellowship because I was stuck in life. An outside observer might say I was depressed, unhappy and a little too obsessed…
Opinion | Will the Economy Help or Hurt Biden ’24? Krugman and Coy Dig Into Data.
Peter Coy: Paul, I think the economy is going to be a huge problem for President Biden in 2024. Voters are unhappy about the state of the economy, even though,…
Asian American Officials Cite Unfair Scrutiny and Lost Jobs in China Spy Tensions
When Thomas Wong set foot in the United States Embassy in Beijing this summer for a new diplomatic posting, it was vindication after years of battling the State Department over…
Sununu Says Christie Should Drop Out Ahead of New Hampshire Primary
Just weeks before New Hampshire holds its Republican presidential primary, the state’s governor, Chris Sununu, said on Sunday that Chris Christie’s presidential bid was “at an absolute dead end” and…
He Was One of the Central Park Five. Now He’s Councilman Yusef Salaam.
Yusef Salaam stood at the front of the City Council Chamber in Lower Manhattan with his right hand raised and his left hand on the Quran held by his wife.…
Kai Zhuang: Police in Utah say student feared kidnapped may be ‘camping’
Police in Utah initially feared that missing Chinese student Kai Zhuang, 17, had been kidnapped.
Links 1/1/2024 | naked capitalism
The Wondrous Birds of the Himalayas and the Forgotten Victorian Woman Whose Illustrations Rewilded the Western Imagination The Marginalian The First Photo-Illustrated Book, Anna Atkins’ Austerely Beautiful Photographs of British…
How the ‘Visionaries’ of Silicon Valley Mean Profits Are Prioritised over True Technological Progress | naked capitalism
By Peter Bloom, Professor of Management, University of Essex. Originally published at The Conversation. Technological innovation in the last couple of decades has brought fame and huge wealth to the…
In Quake-Scarred Japan, 2011 Fukushima Disaster Still Looms Large
As Japan assesses the damage from Monday’s major earthquake, it is still reckoning with the devastating nuclear crisis triggered by an quake nearly 13 years ago, one that placed the…