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[ad_1] Life might be like a box of chocolates, but the economy? It’s more like a sandwich. Whether we’re talking about a club, a Reuben, or a hoagie, every sandwich is the result of supply chains that stretch across the country and around the world. Final assembly takes place at the deli counter—or in your kitchen, if you prefer the DIY version—but those layers of meat, bread, and veggies depend on hundreds of people working to sow, irrigate, feed, reap, slaughter, knead, package, and ship. Economist Leonard Read famously observed that no one on Earth is capable of single-handedly making…

[ad_1] Amidst all the celebratory brouhaha around HBO’s megasuccsssful queer hockey streaming series Heated Rivalry, I feel called upon to be the party pooper. As a queer English professor who works in queer theory, I see two related concepts developed by queer theorists and activists as offering vital interventions into the dominant discourse around Heated Rivalry: […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The…

[ad_1] 20/07/2026. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrives at 10 Downing Street. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street Every generation thinks it’s living through the biggest technological revolution in history. Sometimes it’s wrong. But sometimes it’s absolutely right. Steam power changed everything. Electricity changed everything. The internet changed everything. Artificial intelligence […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The…

[ad_1] When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I was questioned by the British police. Two friends and I had been accosted in the park by a man who had exposed himself and masturbated. We did not really understand what he was doing, but I must have provided a description of this strange conduct to my mother, who called the police.  A policeman arrived that evening, dressed in the reassuring uniform that the police wore at that time, rather than the fascist-militia type of uniform that they so often wear today. I was reading a book in bed…

[ad_1] More than three decades after his death, Richard Milhouse Nixon is finally having his moment. A new generation of conservatives has come to admire the 37th president. They see him as the model Republican leader, far superior to Ronald Reagan and even Donald Trump. Hype edits of his speeches regularly go viral on social media. To those who partake in Nixonmaxxing, as the phenomenon has been dubbed, he is the man who nearly saved America—until the deep state took him out. On the one hand, Nixonmania is a necessary corrective to the image propagated by the media over the…

[ad_1] “I said I think that a guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world and changing it either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them,” said the novelist Henry Miller in a talking-head segment from Warren Beatty’s much-honored 1981 biopic of the Communist journalist John Reed, Reds. Although the film itself worked overtime to aggrandize its protagonist—he was, after all, played by Beatty, then in full command of his charm and screen presence—Miller did the opposite: The sly, devilish author of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and other once-scandalous novels was attempting…

[ad_1] For most of the last 30 years, gold miners were the worst-run businesses in the market.  PreciousMetals They diluted shareholders relentlessly. They overpaid for acquisitions at the top of every cycle. And they somehow managed to lose money even when gold was trading at record highs. Generalist investors learned to avoid the sector entirely. Frankly, they were right to do so. That era is over. And now even Wall Street is admitting it.  Bank of America’s equity analysts just published a report stating that gold miners have become one of the most profitable sectors in the entire market. Consider the…

[ad_1] From the opinion Thursday in Williams v. State, by Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Felix, joined by Chief Judge Tavitas and Judge Bradford: Although “[t]rial records are rarely if ever perfect,” Ben-Yisrayl v. State, 753 N.E.2d 649, 662 (Ind. 2001), the Transcript in this case is far from the best. The Transcript contains various types of errors. There are numerous typos that change the meaning of the testimony, question, or objection. See, e.g., Tr. Vol. II at 137:18, 144:10, 147:10; Tr. Vol. III at 6:13. In some instances, witnesses’ and trial attorneys’ names are reported incorrectly. Tr. Vol. II…

[ad_1] In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships with the Israeli defence technology sector. In Part 2, Davis considered global events through the lens of State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) and noted how civil-military fusion and hybrid war, combined with SCADs, are socially engineering a proposed new global “equilibrium.” Here in Part 3, he delves into how global forces have aligned behind the Praxian vision of a Network Empire in the march toward a UN 2.0 Multipolar World Order. The Praxians—a new breed of tech…

[ad_1] For the first time since July 13, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) did not report new airstrikes against Iran, and Tehran also appeared to have refrained from launching new attacks as the conflict entered its 148th day on Saturday. President Donald Trump said on Friday afternoon that the U.S. is “talking to [Iran] right now. I think they’re getting more and more serious as the days go by.” Trump added that the U.S. military is “locked and loaded and ready to go, but we’re talking to them.”  The Houthis claimed responsibility for overnight attacks on two oil facilities in the…