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[ad_1] Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in August 2017 and then petered out in the central Caribbean Sea, no one could have suspected that the meager clump of clouds that remained would go on to become the second-costliest weather disaster in world history. But after crossing Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico, Harvey was rejuvenated, rapidly intensifying into a ferocious Category 4 hurricane that hit Texas just north of Corpus Christi. Harvey’s true mischief came after it stalled inland as a tropical storm…

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[ad_1] Alana Lentin, Mondoweiss. In response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its ultimate goal is to criminalize anti-Zionism and to further settler colonialism. Australia is currently holding a Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion to make recommendations in response to the attack on the December 2025 Chabad Hannukah by the Sea event, which resulted in the murder of 15 people. The hearings so far have been dominated by people whose ‘lived experience’ of antisemitism is based on its conflation with anti-Zionism or…

[ad_1] Turkey is simultaneously dumping US Treasuries, deepening Russia’s energy embrace, rolling out a tax regime to poach capital fleeing the Gulf… and squaring off against an Israeli political class that now speaks openly of Turkey as an enemy. It’s strategic. Turkey sold nearly all of its US Treasury holdings in March — cutting them from $16 billion to just $1.8 billion in a single month. The official narrative frames this as emergency reserve management amid a weakening lira and inflation running above 32%. But the mechanics of financial stress don’t explain the direction of travel. Nations don’t systematically dump…

[ad_1] Great and Unfortunate Fabrications [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] “This fight against Soviet totalitarianism, and now this fight against Russian influences in this country: This is my life,” says Georgian opposition leader Zurab Japaridze. Japaridze is the founder of one of the few explicitly libertarian political parties in a post-Soviet state, — ‘Girchi’ (which means ‘pine cone’) — ‘More Freedom.’ And in June 2025, he was sentenced to 7 months in Rustavi prison for defying a parliamentary commission run by the ruling party, Georgian Dream. Japaridze was not a part of the United National Movement (UNM) government ostensibly being investigated by the commission, yet he still landed in…

[ad_1] Austin Sarat ScheerPost More than fifty years ago, New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller was accused of having an “edifice complex.” He pled guilty.  In an appearance in September 1970 at the construction site for the World Trade Center in Manhattan, as The New York Times reported, “Rockefeller told several hundred cheering workmen: ‘All right, so I have an edifice complex. I like to build things, and I like the jobs that provides.’” His “edifice complex” drove him to lead the charge for what would become the “Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza, with its immense state office building,…

[ad_1] The show’s newest season replaces real character complexity, depth, and heart with big, sweeping political statements that stir progressive pundits and academics and precisely no one else, writes Liel Leibovitz. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] A new book about the meaning of money argues for how to use finance to create a more equitable economy. [ad_2] Source link