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A recent study represents a confluence of technological advances that is pretty interesting. The specific problem being addressed – chemotherapy for bladder cancer – is very promising, but the technology itself can potential have many applications. Let’s start with the problem, delivering chemotherapy to bladder tumors. The trick with chemotherapy is to create the highest levels of toxicity possible for cancer cells while limiting the toxicity for healthy cells. There are several ways to achieve this, with the primary method being finding drugs that are inherently more toxic tumor cells than non-tumor cells. The classic feature that has been targeted…

You have infinitely more in common with the average person in Iran, Cuba, Lebanon or Palestine than you have with the world’s first trillionaire. Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ It’s so pathetic watching Elon Musk’s groveling bootlickers fall all over themselves on social media to defend their favorite oligarch from criticism as he becomes the world’s first trillionaire. They’re like “Don’t be mean to the trillionaire, just become a trillionaire yourself! All you need is luck, connections, wealthy parents, the ruthlessness to step on anyone who gets in your way, and a willingness to cooperate with murderous imperial institutions like the…

Democratic pride in America has cratered since 9/11 while Republican pride hasn’t moved. New polling shows just how wide that gap has grown. Source link

American companies have not been able to buy Iranian oil directly since 1987, when President Ronald Reagan banned imports in retaliation for the Tanker War. Congress also banned indirect imports in 1996. But for the next two months, Americans may be putting Iranian oil in their cars, thanks to the ongoing peace negotiations. Under General License X, the U.S. Treasury has waived all sanctions on the “production, sale, delivery, or offloading of crude oil, petrochemical products, or petroleum products of Iranian origin” from June 22 through August 21. The U.S.-Iranian memorandum of understanding required Iran to stop impeding shipping in…

Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lost his primary in May, but before leaving Congress he accomplished something that has eluded war powers advocates for decades. Journalist Aída Chávez summarized the moment succinctly on X: House passes Iran war powers resolution 215-208. Four Republicans voted with Democrats to pass it. — aída chávez (@aidachavez) June 3, 2026 In addition to Massie, the three other congressmen were Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), and Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI). Their defection marked a rare fracture in Republican unity on foreign policy and elevated Massie in particular as the leading voice of the anti-war right in President…

It has long been the dream of the U.S. foreign policy elite to bring Japan and South Korea into a tighter alliance. Notoriously dismissive of history, American leaders don’t understand why the two countries can’t just overcome their past differences. For these Americans, the imperative of strengthened security in the region is so much more important than the legacy of colonialism, disputes over textbooks, or the territorial squabble over Dokdo. From an outside perspective, Japan and South Korea do seem to have a lot in common. The two countries have military alliances with the United States. Both are democracies. Both…

"Social democracy is as much about a successful market economy as it is about an active state. When Labour forgets the first part of that sentence, we and the country lose. We’ve got to be as focused on wealth creation as we are on wealth distribution." These words by Wes Streeting, former secretary of state for health in the Labour government, appeared in the FT last week. This is the right approach. Source link

Trump can’t stop getting in Vance’s way: It’s hard to know, when it comes to President Donald Trump, what exactly is deliberate and what’s not. He’s either a man with shockingly poor impulse control or an especially skilled master manipulator. (I assume more of the former, but your assessment may vary.) The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. The latest example of this involves Trump, while Vice President J.D. Vance was still working with Iranian negotiators over the weekend, getting on Fox News and saying he told the…

Joshua Scheer As public support for Israel continues to erode amid the wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, a little-noticed provision buried inside the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act could fundamentally reshape the relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv. Critics warn that Section 224—the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”—would move beyond annual military aid and toward full military-industrial integration, creating a permanent infrastructure that binds the two countries’ defense sectors together while reducing transparency, congressional oversight, and public accountability. On this week’s Clearing the FOG, Margaret Flowers speaks with Quincy Institute foreign policy expert Ben Freeman about what…

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