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September 2025
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Karl Rove: " 'They' Didn't Kill Charlie Kirk". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: "Why everything Pam Bondi said about 'hate speech' is wrong". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Taylor Lorenz: Why People Are Roleplaying Robot Racism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | G. Elliott Morris: Polls overestimate how much either side supports political violence, and learning how uncommon that viewpoint is in itself decreases support for partisan violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | Erin in the Morning: We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Owen Jones: Charlie Kirk's assassination: a dark, cold winter is coming. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | The Dissident: America's 'Years of Lead' are here. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Foreign Affairs: El Salvador’s police state will soon face a reckoning. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | The Guardian: Authoritative to authoritarian: rightwing radicalisation is blurring the British Conservatives’ political red lines. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | The Economist: How Europe’s hard right threatens the economy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Foreign Affairs: Ungoverning America: the "logic" behind Trump’s assault on the administrative state. |
August 2025
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Financial Times: The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The Economist: How the trial of Jair Bolsonaro offers America a lesson in democratic maturity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Foreign Affairs: Warnings From Weimar - Why bargaining with authoritarians fails. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 37 | Harper's: Why the US Congress must impeach Trump |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 39 | Los Angeles Times: AI hype is fading fast; Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Rolling Stone: Here are some of the American corporations and universities cowardly capitulating to Trump. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 41 | Project Syndicate: Starvation in Gaza and our global shame |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Slate: Kim Davis's recent appeal to the US 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 49 | The Guardian: Gender non-conforming British women tell of toilet abuse after transwomen were stripped of gender protections. Despite explicit promises that 'bathroom policing' for 'biological males' would not happen. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The Guardian: The UK's "Online Safety Act" is a recipe for censorship, and the rest of the world is following suit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Americas Quarterly: Can liberal democracy adapt before it unravels? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Foreign Affairs: How to resist a dictator: what Belarus’s Democratic Opposition reveals—and what it needs to win |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Foreign Affairs: Taiwan’s democracy is in trouble: How polarization undermines security |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The Economist: Why Israel must hold itself to account |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Foreign Affairs: The unparalleled devastation of Gaza |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Guardian: Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | New York Times: The militarization of Silicon Valley. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | The Guardian: UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Grist: Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life in America. Here’s how. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The Guardian: Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The Guardian: How plastic 'Deposit Return' schemes help nations hit recycling targets. |
July 2025
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Stuff: Apparently it is well known that Trump cheats at golf. Colour me surprised. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Financial Times: The coming crypto crisis. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble "Yes, Generative AI 'Does Something,' But AI Is Predominantly Marketed Based On Lies" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The Guardian: Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | BBC News: How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | The Guardian: Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Grist: Why the American federal government is making climate data disappear. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Techdirt: Who goes MAGA? It is...to an immense extent, the disease of a generation |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Financial Times: The folly of America’s R&D cuts |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Paul Krugman: Trump's Dictator Protection Program - why Trump should be impeached after using tariffs to bully Brazil into dropping the trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The Guardian: The radical 1960s British school experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 47 | The Guardian: ‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda. |
June 2025
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | The Nation: The smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani failed. That's a huge deal. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | SPLC: Trump's unconstitutional and authoritarian moves in LA fulfill the far right's dreams of revenge. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The Dissident: The static of a collapsing state: reflecting on being trapped in the American Nightmare. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Dissent Magazine: The bad science behind trans medicine bans |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | The Economist: AI jobs apocalypse seems a long way off |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -6 | The Philadelphia Enquirer: Trump is using the military to pull a slow-motion coup. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Quartz: A 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
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | BBC News: Young American men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Historians for Ukraine: "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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | The Guardian: MAGA's era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | The Guardian: ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | The Guardian: Extremist 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
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Rolling Stone: Trump, who owes his freedom to due process, is trying to ruin it for everyone else. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The Intercept: Last 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The Guardian: A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the British far right. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Guardian ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Molson Hart: America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back, and tariffs are an awful idea |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The Guardian: The rise of end times fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The Guardian: ‘A new golden age’: how American rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | The Guardian: We are witnessing the destruction of science in America |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Washington Monthly: Trump's tariffs are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn't vote for him. |
March 2025
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Angela Collier: How to spot a physics crackpot |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Media Matters: The right dominates the online media ecosystem, with its bullshit seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Current Affairs: Why everyone should care about the right to due process. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Taylor Lorenz: "The Rise and Fall of 'the Resistance.'" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | The New Yorker: The data hoarders resisting Trump's digital purge. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | CBC News: Does a CO2 pipeline leak in Mississippi hold lessons for Canada? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Skye Richardson: It should be easy for progressives to dominate the right on trans issues. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | CNN: How fascist mercenary oligarch Erik Prince managed to worm his way back inside Trump's orbit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Boston Review: Rule by militia: governments wracked by debt have found militias an effective way of managing restive populations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | New York Times: Many 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The Guardian: Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 41 | Joe Wrote: Republicans don't hate Social Security because it's broken—they hate it because it works. It attacks a central plank of their world-view; that government solutions are always failures. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | San Francisco Chronicle: Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | 404 Media: "Buying a $250 residency card from a tropical island let me bypass US crypto laws." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Ars Technica: The 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. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The Guardian: The left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that. |
February 2025
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | BBC News: Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Pew Research: American Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Rolling Stone: Kash Patel can do a lot of damage without really needing to overhaul the FBI very much at all. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | The Guardian: Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The Guardian: ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Tech Radar: Google, Apple, and internet restriction – how Big Tech is making censorship "much worse" according to experts. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The Nation: Why American Democrats won’t throw a real punch against Trump). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Factkeepers: Fascism is already here in America. Do we have the strength to drive it out? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 37 | Forward: Musk is doing everything the conspiracist right accused George Soros of doing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The Guardian: Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | The Guardian: Black, atheist and unapologetic: the rise of secularism in African American communities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Scientific American: The US is not ready for a bird flu pandemic. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | FuelArc: It's official: the Tesla Cybertruck is way more explosive than a Ford Pinto |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Washington Post: The assault on DEI is really a push to bring back legal segregation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Council of Foreign Relations: What Trump’s Trade War Would Mean, in Nine Charts. |