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August 2025

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18Financial Times: The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders
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17 The Economist: How the trial of Jair Bolsonaro offers America a lesson in democratic maturity (Non-paywalled archive)
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21 Warnings From Weimar - Why barganing with authoritarians fails.
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36 Harper's: Why Congress must impeach Trump
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35Los Angeles Times: AI hype is fading fast; Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash
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28Here are some of the corporations and universities cowardly capitulating to Trump.
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41Starvation in Gaza and our global shame
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23Kim Davis's recent appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality is probably not the prime concern for gay rights at the moment; the court is likely looking to undermine LGBT rights in more subtle ways, and her appeal is reportedly malformed.
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46Gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse after transwomen were stripped of gender protections. Despite explicit promises that 'bathroom policing' for 'biological males' would not happen.
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21The UK's "Online Safety Act" is a recipe for censorship, and the rest of the world is following suit.
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20Can liberal democracy adapt before it unravels?
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21 How to resist a dictator: what Belarus’s Democratic Opposition reveals—and what it needs to win
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16 Taiwan’s democracy is in trouble: How polarization undermines security
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19Why Israel must hold itself to account
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20 The unparalleled devastation of Gaza
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13 Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories.
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17The militarization of Silicon Valley.
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29 UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds.
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19 Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life in America. Here’s how.
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19Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past.
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19How plastic 'Deposit Return' schemes help nations hit recycling targets.

July 2025

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20Apparently it is well known that Trump cheats at golf. Colour me surprised.
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17The coming crypto crisis
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38The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble "Yes, Generative AI 'Does Something,' But AI Is Predominantly Marketed Based On Lies"
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20 Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.
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15How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis.
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31Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
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19Why the (American) federal government is making climate data disappear.
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26Who goes MAGA? It is...to an immense extent, the disease of a generation
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25The folly of America’s R&D cuts
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18Trump's Dictator Protection Program - Paul Krugman calls for an impeachment of Donald Trump after America imposes 50 percent tariff on Brazil as the country puts its former president Jair Bolsonaro on trial.
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20The radical 1960s British school experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell.
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47“Gaza deserves death. The 2.6 million terrorists in Gaza deserve death! … Men, women, and children – in every way possible, we must simply carry out a Holocaust on them – yes, read that again – H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! For me, gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel forms of death for these Nazis". Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023.

June 2025

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30The smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani failed. That's a huge deal.
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6Trump's unconstitutional and authoritarian moves in LA fulfill the far right's dreams of revenge.
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16The static of a collapsing state: reflecting on being trapped in the American Nightmare.
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14The bad science behind trans medicine bans
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33 AI jobs apocalypse seems a long way off
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-6Trump is using the military to pull a slow-motion coup.
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31A decades-old tax rule, Section 174, helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump in 2017 helped dismantle it and the effects are being realized now.

May 2025

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28Young American men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'.
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80 "An Open Letter to the People of the USA" - At the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, a group of hundreds of historians from all over the world sign a letter to remind the American people how the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin seeks to undermine freedom, democracy, and truth, and asks Americans to stand with Ukraine.
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29MAGA's era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed.
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24 ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India.
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23Extremist blogger to debate Harvard professor at unsanctioned campus event: fascist Mencius Moldbug to debate Danielle Allen, a democracy-focused Harvard professor in an off-campus event

April 2025

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18Trump, who owes his freedom to due process, is trying to ruin it for everyone else.
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19Last month, a bomb threat targeted Gaza protesters at Barnard College. The College and the police used it as an excuse to crack down on the very same protesters targeted by the bomb threat.
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22 A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the (British) far right.
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13 ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
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24America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back, and tariffs are an awful idea
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22The rise of end times fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor find motifs similar to End Times / Rapture paradigms in not just the Donald Trump administration's Dominionists, but Silicon Valley's "tech bros" as well.
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17‘A new golden age’: how American rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed.
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40We are witnessing the destruction of science in America
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26Trump's tariffs are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn't vote for him.

March 2025

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25How to spot a physics crackpot
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41Analysis from the automotive news website FuelArc concludes that the Incelmobile Tesla Cybertruck is about 17 times more likely to kill its occupant(s) in a fire fatality than the Ford Pinto, a car infamous for bursting into flames.
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20The right dominates the online media ecosystem, with its bullshit seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces.
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28Why everyone should care about the right to due process.
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8Taylor Lorenz: "The Rise and Fall of 'the Resistance.'"
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24The data hoarders resisting Trump's (digital) purge.
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14Does a CO2 pipeline leak in Mississippi hold lessons for Canada?
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21It should be easy for progressives to dominate the right on trans issues.
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18How fascist mercenary oligarch Erik Prince managed to worm his way back inside Trump's orbit.
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10Noted American comedienne Rosie O'Donnell has said she is emigrating permanently to Ireland with her daughter due to the political climate.
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20Rule by militia: governments wracked by debt have found militias an effective way of managing restive populations.
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31Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America. People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy.
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19Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels.
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41 Republicans don't hate Social Security because it's broken—they hate it because it works. The existence of a successful and beloved social welfare program undercuts the conservative worldview that government solutions always produce worse outcomes than The Free Market™.
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4Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way.
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17"Buying a $250 residency card from a tropical island let me bypass US crypto laws."
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36The best current AIs are already using three orders of magnitude more neurons than we'd find in a fly's brain and have nowhere near the fly's general capabilities.
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11The left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that.

February 2025

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11Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions.
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15Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.
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22Kash Patel can do a lot of damage without really needing to overhaul the FBI very much at all.
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7Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse
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19 ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones.
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15Google, Apple, and internet restriction – how Big Tech is making censorship "much worse" according to experts.
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20Why (American) Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch (against Trump).
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25Fascism is already here in America. Do we have the strength to drive it out?
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37Musk is doing everything the conspiracist right accused George Soros of doing.
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12Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones.
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23Black, atheist and unapologetic: the rise of secularism in African American communities.
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22The US is not ready for a bird flu pandemic.
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31The Tesla Cybertruck is more explosive than the Ford Pinto.
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28The assault on DEI is really a push to bring back legal segregation.
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31What Trump’s Trade War Would Mean, in Nine Charts.