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[ad_1] Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 Before the last presidential election, Adolph Reed Jr. argued that “electoral politics has captured too much of the political imagination of the American left—or, at least, of those occupying the cultural space that a left would if there were one in this country.” Reed lamented the culturally dominant “sensibility that approaches politics as largely performative, a theater for the expression of righteousness, or bearing witness for justice and against injustice.” As many radicals long predicted, this approach to politics has handed the whole of the national political conversation to the right,…

[ad_1] I thought of various clever-seeming ways to organize this cornucopia of quotes from the diary of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci. But that would mean cutting some of these gems. So here they are, in ascending order of embarrassing awfulness. 1. Anthony Fauci on Anthony Fauci: — “Apparently, a lot of people at the Pentagon admire me very much …” — “The nurses went absolutely wild to see me, they were squealing and laughing and clapping. It was something to behold.” — “Did I mention he’s easy on the eyes?”…

[ad_1] I launched my original blog on WordPress back in September 2009, shortly after I graduated law school. At the time, I was also very active on the nascent Twitter to promote my posts. Over the past seventeen years, the landscape has changed quite a bit. Podcasts have surged in popularity. Advisory Opinions, Strict Scrutiny, and others command massive audiences, and their hosts write best-selling books. Social media has shifted from long-ish threads to bite-sized POV videos. And Substack has emerged as a popular platform that authors can monetize. The Volokh Conspiracy has moved from place-to-place, but has remained largely…

[ad_1] Here’s some nourishment to feed your curiosity. Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions during tense US Senate hearing about Covid origins. First textile fragment from the iron age found at the submerged site of the gran carro of bolsena after sixty years of searching. Super-agers share traits linked to living healthier for longer. (Video) Three handy tools for separating pseudoscience from the real deal. Stanley Krippner: Journeys into indigenous healing (part three). NASA Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires. Neuroscientists pinpoint how smells bring back childhood memories. Curious object over Dulce, New Mexico, accidentally photographed by resident…

[ad_1] Say it with me: Correlation does not equal causation. But once again, we’ve got someone spinning noncausal survey results as “social media is bad news for teenagers,” despite the fact that most of the teens studied were only moderate users and problems among the heaviest users could cause social media overuse, rather than vice versa. The survey also found serious class differences in use that could help explain disparities in habits, happiness levels, and outlook between those who use these platforms a lot and those who don’t. Researcher Daniel Cox acknowledges that “not all” teens react the same way…

[ad_1] For nearly twenty-five years, Washington has quietly expanded America’s Global War on Terror across Africa. Today, U.S. military activities stretch from the Horn of Africa through the Sahel to the Atlantic coast, encompassing intelligence bases, drone operations, special operations deployments, partner-force training, logistical support, surveillance missions, and recurring multinational exercises. Yet if the objective has been to produce a more secure region, the strategic picture is difficult to reconcile with the investment. To understand why, begin with a map. The central Sahel and Lake Chad Basin now form one of the world’s largest interconnected conflict systems. In eastern Mali,…

[ad_1] Image by Donald Giannatti. The Israeli military’s Orwellian use of artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and execution of attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank has been well-documented by journalists, reporters, and activists in Israel and the United States. Less known is the close collaboration between the military and police departments in the United States, which have been quietly adopting tactics pioneered by Israel in their perpetual campaigns in the occupied territories, including US police departments sending their officers to Israel for training. This dynamic, combined with the US’ direct funding of the Israeli military through taxpayer…

[ad_1] Almost overnight, data centers have emerged as one of the most controversial issues in America. But do they need to be? Joe Nocera doesn’t think so. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The road to policy hell is paved with good intentions. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] M.K. Bhadrakumar says that by linking the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the U.S. opened a theater of conflict around the Caspian Sea. CGTN reported on July 25 that the U.S. had struck the Caspian Sea’s Iranian port city of Bandar-e Anzali, shown here in aerial view in 2021. (Wiki9876ad/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) By M.K. BhadrakumarIndian Punchline  On Friday, even as U.S. President Donald Trump was announcing the end of the latest round of the conflict with Iran, the Pentagon unobtrusively extended the war theatre to the Caspian Sea in a hugely consequential geopolitical thrust. The incident hardly figured in the…