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Cirque du Soleil’s stunning stage show Luzia, touring five North American cities in 2026, follows a parachutist as he experiences Mexico. In the process, it reveals striking resemblances between Mexican and U.S. culture. The show’s production value and feats of human strength uphold the Cirque du Soleil reputation for high-quality physicality and staging. Pushing the limits of what’s possible under the big tent, Luzia brings the outdoors in, using impressive engineering to highlight water’s beauty. Its characters—birds, reptiles, mountain lions, monarch butterflies—reflect a diversity that is at once familiar and mysterious to many Americans. Each year, those monarch butterflies migrate from southern Canada…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Jenny Brown for  Labor Notes. Union baristas are finally back to the negotiating table with Starbucks, but the workers charge that rather than progressing, the company is reopening already agreed-upon issues. “They’re trying to move backwards on issues we’ve already settled instead of settling the few that we have left,” said Mina Leon, a barista in downtown Manhattan who…

Tears from Heaven for the Jesus of Uncool (Apologies to Nick Lowe), Getty Museum. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Mafia is not an outsider in this world; it is perfectly at home. Indeed, in the integrated spectacle, it stands as the model of all advanced commercial enterprises. – Guy Debord + Donald Trump’s few remaining defenders are now reduced to explaining his increasingly erratic behavior as a ploy, that like Hamlet (I mean, the Don can play Jesus on Truth Social, so why not Hamlet on Fox News?), he is merely putting on “an antic disposition,” and is only “mad…

A local TV news investigation found that hundreds of people in Georgia who were arrested for DUI in 2025 were later shown to be sober, based on blood tests from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The records show that 701 of the 6,875 blood samples tested had no illegal or prescription drugs in them, even though those people had been charged with driving under the influence. Police only test for drugs in these cases if a driver’s blood alcohol level is below the legal limit. As a result, many arrests depended solely on field sobriety tests that were designed to catch…

Photograph Source: kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 “You should write about Viktor Orbán,” a close English friend told me before heading back to the Himalayas. Orbán? I wondered. As leader, he has “ceased to be,” “expired,” and is “no more,” to borrow from Monty Python. Then I saw his point. Orbán is not yesterday’s story so much as a figure already ripe for perspective. A proper valediction might do more than mark the end of one career. It could help frame the twilight of a political generation. For Orbán belongs, perhaps, with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and even JD Vance—leaders…

You could say the impending stagflationary tsunami serves him right because Trumpy is an arrogant, clueless know-it-all, who basically knows practically nothing at all. At least with regard to the manifold issues of prosperity, constitutional governance and war & peace now plaguing the nation. Thus, he was saying quite militantly before February 28th that there is no inflation, claiming during his recent speech to the 2026 Davos conference that— “We have virtually no inflation… inflation [has been] defeated… Grocery prices, energy prices, airfares, mortgage rates, rent and car payments are all coming down, and they’re coming down fast.” Not so…

Photograph Source: J Stimp – CC BY 2.0 Art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981) The French social theorist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) memorably argued, “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” Today, we might see the advent of smartphone culture as…

A few days ago, the D.C. Circuit sent the East Wing case back down to Judge Leon. In my view, the plaintiffs clearly have no standing. Judge Rao’s separate opinion cogently explains why. Judge Leon, undeterred, ruled against Trump again! The White House can continue with “underground” construction but not “aboveground” construction! I suppose Judge Leon is an expert in construction, as he seems to think these two levels can be separated! His new order had fewer exclamation points, but he still declined to address standing. Should this case get to SCOTUS, it will be very easy for the proceduralists…

A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the product of American diplomacy, nor Israeli strategic calculation. It was imposed – largely as a result of sustained Iranian pressure. Washington, Tel Aviv, and their allies – including some within Lebanon itself – will continue to deny this reality. Acknowledging Iran’s role would mean admitting that a historic precedent has been set: for the first time, forces opposing the United States and Israel have succeeded in imposing conditions on both. This is not a…

The diplomatic process to end the war on Iran is not buried yet. President Donald Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said that “most points were agreed to” during U.S.–Iranian talks in Islamabad last weekend. “In many ways,” Trump added, “the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our Military Operations to conclusion.” There is hope among the mediators that the gap could be narrowed and talks could resume before the ceasefire ends on April 21. But the first round in Islamabad—the highest-level face-to-face talks between the U.S. and Iran since the Islamic Republic of Iran…