Author: nick
Truthful Fictions At times, the entire country of Spain feels as if Europe and Africa’s loins are shrink-wrapped into one remarkable experience: To be surrounded by the inimitable scorched earth, again: The Sun of Justice beds the El Solano: I am naked to the mind–My DNA remains in full view splayed for all to see. Giants, art history’s gargantuas make for imaginary possibilities: They appear in my sky like jellyfish spanning seven oceans: A mercurial day in a human’s life is near. The cumulative effect from ageless experiences is near an end. One day, I realized Madrid is home to every…
Britain’s public institutions are in a crisis of legitimacy. As British voters wonder why their taxes increase and their living standards stagnate, the state seems uninterested in improving the quality of their lives. The Government, led by Sir Keir Starmer, has long since stopped functioning. After failing to implement some modest reforms to the welfare state a year ago, it has simply run out of authority and momentum. Today, the prime minister may well be replaced by a rival Labour Party politician, Andy Burnham, later this summer. Since the 2024 General Election, there have been two consecutive summers of protests…
The administration says tariffs are needed to combat forced labor. Yet it has gutted efforts to fight slavery and human trafficking. Source link
Every era gets the slogan it deserves. Ours, apparently, is: Great Powers 2.0 If you have not run across the phrase yet, you will. It is shorthand for a now-fashionable claim: that the long post-Cold War experiment in open markets and rules-based cooperation is finished, and that the world has reverted to an older, harder logic of rival great powers fighting over territory, technology, and above all, raw materials. The United States, China, and Russia are said to be circling one another again, and the new currency of power is not just armies but supply chains, rare earth elements, and…
On May 31, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam gave a televised address in which he condemned Israel’s invasion and intensified attacks on southern Lebanon as a dangerous escalation, warning that a “scorched-earth policy” will never bring security to Tel Aviv: “Israel must understand that with its scorched-earth policy, collective punishment, and the bulldozing of villages and towns, it will gain neither security nor stability.” As Salam said, this process is now advancing. “Israel is practicing mass displacement that amounts to collective punishment. It no longer targets only specific locations or areas, but has adopted a policy of comprehensive destruction of cities,…
It’s not breaking news that consumers are tired of feeling ripped off. Years of high inflation thanks to the Biden administration, junk contracts, and seemingly endless fees have taken their toll. As a result, the Trump administration has been prioritizing lowering costs and price transparency. They’ve made real progress: take TrumpRx, for instance. This direct-to-consumer website is a one-stop shop for consumers to see low-cost generic prescription options so that they can easily choose the product and price that is right for them and their family. What’s more, the administration has partnered with newer entrants to the market, like Mark…
The U.S. was not joined by many allies in its decision to go to war with Iran. Israel and some of the Gulf countries were the strongest supporters of the decision by far. Europeans opted to pass. Asian allies, like the Europeans, were far from supportive of the war because of both its first- and second-order effects. The war so far is affecting the U.S. mainly through higher gas prices and inflation—but when America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Developed markets are somewhat able to absorb shocks, but there are limits. European countries, which have already been buffeted by…
During President Joe Biden’s term in office, the United States witnessed the largest surge in immigration in the nation’s history. Source link
Kroft: 60 Minutes We've Known 'No Longer Exists' Source link
From People v. Nichols, decided Tuesday by Justice Mark Clarke, joined by Justices John Barberis and Barry Vaughan: [The] charges [in this case] were predicated on photographs and videos of the defendant’s minor daughters taken between 2002 and 2016 and were found on a computer and an external hard drive in the defendant’s home. The defendant’s husband, Douglas Nichols, who is not a party to this appeal [but who reportedly has filed his own appeal -EV], was also charged … with possession of the same images and videos. Some backstory on how the images were found, from a March article…