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[ad_1] Amena found out about the war when air raid alarms woke her. Hossein first heard it when fighter jets blew up a radio station as he listened to it. Jad found out about it on the news, two hours before the bombs fell on his neighborhood. And the parents of several volleyball players found out when their daughters were pulled from the burning wreckage of a school gym. Most Americans have fortunately never seen war firsthand, and most of those who have were troops sent to fight far away. War in your hometown is a strange experience, especially a…
[ad_1] I have been reading Joseph Roth at a plastic table in front of a bar in the Plaza Mayor of a small town in Extremadura whose name, should I give it, would mean nothing to anyone outside a radius of thirty kilometers. This is precisely the point. This is a town that history forgot, or […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Troy…
[ad_1] Among the more curious features of my job as a critic who writes regularly about the motion picture industry is explaining to various interview subjects, PR flacks, and sometimes even professional colleagues that I live in Ohio. In my experience, most people who work in Hollywood assume that nearly everyone who might enter their orbit also works in Hollywood or some other acceptably cosmopolitan locale, which means, in practice, New York. Remarkably, this habit of mind persisted even during and after the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, when, conceivably, it should not have mattered one iota whether I was…
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[ad_1] There is nothing more important than the trivial, as Sherlock Holmes well knew. The smallest indications often (though not always) have the widest implications. One should always be on the lookout for deeper significance while, of course, guarding against paranoia and the siren song of conspiracy theory. There are perhaps few things more trivial than letters to the British Medical Journal, but they sometimes suggest something important. My attention was captured by a recent letter headed “Weight ‘regain’ is not neutral language.” The authors, from Buenos Aires and Düsseldorf, objected to the use of the word “regain” in an…
[ad_1] On April 24-26, I attended LibertyCon Europe 2026, the major annual gathering of European libertarian students and academics (held this year in Madrid). I was invited to give two talks, and therefore came to this event for the first time since 2014. I spoke to numerous students, academics, and activists who attended the conference and got a better sense of where European libertarians (or “classical liberals,” as some prefer to call themselves) stand at this crucial moment in history. It was interesting to observe similarities and differences with their American counterparts. Not surprisingly, there is a large overlap between…
[ad_1] Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was challenged on Wednesday during a House Armed Services Committee hearing over remarks he made on March 13. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) brought up something the secretary of war said during a press conference: “You said, ‘We will give them no quarter, no mercy.” “An order for no quarter, or no survivors, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions,” Moulton said. “You understand, that’s murder. Do you stand by that statement?” Hegseth sidestepped the accusation, replying, “The Department of War fights to win. And we ensure that our warfighters have the rules of…
[ad_1] Employees producing an economic surplus for employers to sell in the marketplace risk their life and limbs due to the bosses’ disregard of workplace safety standards. A new report from the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) delivers the disturbing details. We turn to the just released Dirty Dozen 2026, highlighting unsafe workplaces, comprised of Occupational Safety and Health Administration violations, and nominations from National COSH’s state affiliates, labor unions and workers centers. The motive of private profit was the driving force of the workers’ fatalities and injuries, according to National COSH, founded in 2004. “This…
[ad_1] The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called state lawmakers into special sessions on Friday, initial steps in what could be a scramble to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act.Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain He can hardly be blamed for being given the brief by his Prime Minister. King Charles III is in the United States on a repair job, playing diplomatic handyman and mender for Sir Keir Starmer and the US-UK alliance so long regarded as special. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of American independence, it was easy to forget that the British, despite losing its American colonies, gained some vengeance through the exploits of Major General Robert Ross, who, on August 14, 1814, burned down the White House, the Capitol building, and an assortment of other…