Chris Hedges: Trump's catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions. read more
Bulgaria has won the 70th Eurovision song contest in Vienna, Austria, with singer Dara's party anthem "Bangaranga," beating out 24 other competitors. This was Bulgaria's first-ever victory at Eurovision. Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Iceland boycotted the contest because of Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza; Israel's singer came in second place. read more
The media landscape is very grim. read more
Elon Musk spent at least $290 million in the 2024 presidential election to help President Donald Trump and other Republicans take office. read more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion pill to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed by mail, restoring for now a 2023 federal rule ... read more
Donald Trump didn't invent American decline, but he has accelerated it with a fury and recklessness that will echo across the century. read more
Trump is often not alone during his sleepless nights. read more
What the "underbabied" panic, the abortion bans, and the mass deportations really have in common. read more
The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Americans' increasingly perilous finances and rising prices aren't on his mind at all ... read more
His remarks come as the court faces intense public scrutiny and historically low approval following a series of high-profile rulings that overturned long-standing precedent. read more
Yet another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter has been arrested -- the latest for allegedly threatening a man with a gun in a church parking lot.
Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us-- one of home, tradition and memory over generations." read more
"The strings just fell out," says Clifford Cheung, professor of theoretical physics and director of the Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics at Caltech. "We didn't start with any assumptions about strings at all, but then the solution contained the cornerstone signatures of strings." Though the work does not amount to experimental evidence for string theory, it is "very suggestive from the theoretical viewpoint, since the general assumptions could have yielded infinite solutions, but they yielded only one," Cheung says. read more
New York Times: Settler violence has grown commonplace in the West Bank in recent years, part of a campaign of harassment, abuse and forced displacement. Since Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, more than 700,000 Israelis have settled in the West Bank among more than three million Palestinians. read more
Being a healthy eater after 50 means two things: boosting intake of good-for-you foods like berries, leafy greens, whole grains and lean proteins; and cutting out the foods that clog your arteries, raise your blood pressure and risk of diabetes, affect your cognition and expand your waistline. ... And when possible, just say no -- or at least "whoa!" -- to these 25 foods.
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