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Study Links Prolonged Sitting to Increased Dementia Risk, Physical Activity and Sleep Found Protective

Conspiracy Theories

Introduction: Sleep and Physical Activity Found to Have Protective Effects A new large-scale scientific review has identified prolonged sitting, insufficient sleep and physical inactivity as significant, modifiable risk factors for dementia in adults. The analysis, which synthesized data from millions of individuals, found that adults who sit for more than eight hours daily face a substantially higher risk of developing the condition, while regular exercise and optimal sleep duration were associated with protective effects. The findings, published in the open-access journal PLOS One, add to a growing body of research suggesting everyday lifestyle choices play a crucial role in long-term brain health.…

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Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment

Politics & Policy

You can read it here; here’s the opening paragraph plus another paragraph, though the indictment offers considerably more details as well (note that, as always, an indictment is just the government’s allegations): The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (“SPLC”) stated mission included the dismantling of white supremacy and confronting hate across the country. However, unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. The SPLC’s paid informants (“field sources”) engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at…

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The American Conservative Needs Your Support to End the War

Economy & Power

Dear Reader, The war in Iran has been halted by a tenuous ceasefire– one that could break imminently. As the cost in blood and treasure mounts, as American strength is degraded in every other world theater, as the economy slides toward the abyss, the White House and its allies have still not articulated the concepts of a plan for concluding this war of choice. Founded in 2002 to oppose the catastrophic war in Iraq, The American Conservative has distinguished itself as the most prominent, thoughtful, and trenchant institutional critic of this Middle Eastern folly. We have been and very much…

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Dismissing China’s Repression in Xinjiang

Investigative Reports

Image by Fenghua. Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak’s article in Monthly Review, “The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang,” is among the more substantial recent efforts on the international Left to defend China’s repressive policies in Xinjiang and dismiss the grievances of local Muslim peoples. Their article strikes a similar tone to the Chinese government sources that they often rely on, featuring the same questionable historical narratives and narrow focus on a few individual critics and their affiliations. By the end of the piece, I was noting signs of intellectual sloppiness. As I did my due…

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The Ludlow Massacre Where 25 Miners and Family Members Were Killed During a Bitter Strike for Fair Wages and Conditions

Investigative Reports

The Ludlow Massacre in 1914 on this site brought congressional attention to miners’ labor rights in Colorado.Denver Public Library On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car called the Death Special. The miners waged a pitched battle with the National Guard for 10 days before President Woodrow Wilson ordered federal soldiers to intervene. An estimated 69 to 199 people were killed. It was the end of one of the most bitter and violent miner…

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