Opinion | Why Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping for Some, Rising for Others
Drug overdose deaths fell by an estimated 14.5 percent from June 2023 to June 2024 — the most significant decline recorded in the 21st century. When I first heard the…
Opinion | The Surprising Allure of Ignorance
Aristotle taught that all human beings want to know. Our own experience teaches us that all human beings also want not to know, sometimes fiercely so. This has always been…
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times
Nuclear confrontation is fundamentally a form of communication — even after the first blows fall. Some in government see it as a language and revel in its complexity. This has…
An Artist Who Finds the Life in Everything
As far as Betti Franceschi is concerned, every last part of her apartment is alive. “I’m an animist,” she said, referring to her sense that there’s a soul in everything,…
Biden Visits Angola to Promote Lobito Corridor and Counter China
Cristina Nambendi receives training on farming techniques from an American-funded program in Angola. But when asked if she had ever heard of President Biden or knew much about the United…
Israel Builds Bases in Central Gaza, a Sign It May Be There to Stay
The Israeli military has been expanding its presence in central Gaza in recent months, fortifying military bases and demolishing Palestinian buildings, according to Israeli officials and satellite images, a move…
D.C. Police Officer to Go on Trial Over Messages to Proud Boys Leader
Two days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a top intelligence officer in the Washington, D.C., police department sent an encrypted message to one of…
Erdogan Backstabs His Way Into Center of Middle East Conflict | naked capitalism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan just had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Nov. 24 in which the former reportedly talked up plans to expand cooperation…
Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of “Generative Biology”‘ Colonization at COP16 | naked capitalism
Yves here. A bit confusingly, the less well publicized COP16, an annual global biodiversity meeting under UN auspices, convened shortly before the COP29 climate conference. But a common element of…
Closing Arguments to Begin in Subway Chokehold Trial
A month after lawyers began laying out their case in Daniel Penny’s trial, they are set to make their final arguments on Monday to the jury that will decide his…