Blinken says China helping fuel Russian threat to Ukraine
The US Secretary of State was speaking to the BBC at the end of a three-day trip to China.
Trump insiders on the stand at the hush-money trial
Donald Trump’s criminal trial continued on Friday, hearing testimony from his former assistant as well as the remainder of former National Inquirer publisher David Pecker’s testimony. Rhona Graff, who worked…
Protest leader sorry for ‘kill Zionists’ comments
The student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live” has since been barred from the Columbia campus.
Pelosi urges Gaza campus protesters to target Hamas
The Biden ally says outrage about the situation in Gaza is justified but protesters should condemn Hamas too.
What do student protesters at US universities want?
Protest groups on more than 20 campuses are all aiming at the same target – university investments
Opinion | Harvey Weinstein and the Limits of ‘She Said, She Said, She Said’
I often wake up these days feeling as though I’m living in an upside-down world. Thursday was one such morning: Just as Donald Trump prepared to spend another day in…
Boeing: Dead whistleblower warned of safety breaches
In his deposition, he provided more detail on these allegations, in support of his legal complaint that he had been “denigrated, humiliated and treated with scorn” by senior managers, who…
Possible Trump VP pick defends killing her dog
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem recalls shooting a dog and a goat in a soon-to-be released memoir.
Human Spectacle
On This Week’s Episode: Gladiators in the Colosseum. Sideshow performers. Reality television. Throughout our history, we’ve loved to gawk at the misery and majesty of others. In this episode, “This…
Book Review: The Enduring Allure of Alien Worlds | naked capitalism
Yves here. I was a very active science fiction reader in my teens and a fair chunk of my adulthood. But I am not at all optimistic about humans finding…