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[ad_1] Mary Kostakidis was known as “the face” of Australia’s SBS evening news. A former head of SBS TV told CN’s award ceremony that Kostakidis was the “conscience” of SBS, for among things, wanting to tell the Palestinian’s story. Mary Kostakidis, the winner of Consortium News‘ 2026 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award was known as “the face” of the national television network where she anchored the evening news. But at CN‘s award ceremony on Sunday, shown above, Sawsan Madina, who was the head of SBS Television, said that because Kostakidis fought to include marginalized voices, such as Palestinians,…

[ad_1] YouTube screenshot of the monotonous block task from the Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) experiment. Psychological science—particularly social psychology—is suffering an ongoing crisis of confidence. The field has endured a replication crisis stemming from the realization that many classic studies, when conducted again by different researchers, do not pan out. Similarly, I recently confessed that I no longer believe in research coming out of Harvard and several other top universities showing that doing a ritual improved performance on a subsequent skilled activity, such as karaoke singing or taking a math test (Vyse 2025). Two published studies in this line of…

[ad_1] Details of the 14-point agreement revealed as senior US officials claim ‘major win’ despite significant concessions. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] As the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence nears, it looks like Americans overwhelmingly approve of their country’s cardinal principles. That’s the top-line finding from a recent survey conducted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) about the legacy of America’s founding. While its results did reflect a generational divide—baby boomers were much friendlier to the Founding than Gen Z—73 percent of the younger generation still agreed that “the founders deserve respect…for how they set up the United States.” And 74 percent of Gen Z respondents agreed that “studying the political principles of the founding fathers…

[ad_1] Joshua Scheer Editor’s Note: The following note was sent by Trita Parsi to me and many others, and it is worth both reading and watching. Parsi is responding to the latest developments around Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran, the danger of Democrats repeating the bad-faith attacks Republicans used against the JCPOA in 2015, and the larger question of how failed wars become endless wars when politicians decide that admitting defeat is more costly than continuing a disaster. He also shares his recent two-hour conversation with Tucker Carlson, where he discusses the deeper history of the U.S.-Iran conflict…

[ad_1] Screengrab from unclassified footage of the first airstrike on vessels in the Caribbean Sea in September 2025. More than any other U.S. president in decades, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued military interventions in Latin America. On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism. In the months before the operation, U.S. Southern Command began targeting small, fast-moving boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. The death toll from the continuing war on these alleged narco-terrorists has risen to over 200 people. At the heart of these events is the Trump administration’s stated…

[ad_1] Both President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed an interim peace agreement to end the War in Iran, which entered its 111th day on Thursday. Posting the text of the 14-point agreement on X, Pezeshkian wrote that the agreement “is a historical document and a message from a powerful Iran: Peace will be realized in the shadow of mutual respect.” The terms include “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon… and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon,” the removal of the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of…

[ad_1] Today the Supreme Court decided T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp., a case concerning the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, under which federal district court review of state court decisions is generally barred. The justices split 5-4 on the application of the doctrine here. Justice Sotomayor wrote for the Court. She summarized the issue in T.M. this way: Under what has become known as the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, federal district courts lack jurisdiction over “cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced and inviting district court review and rejection…

[ad_1] Was it worth it? Of course not. But comparing his Iran deal with Obama’s or decrying the terms risks falling into the same traps as previous presidents Trita Parsi Responsible Statecraft I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, I warned that it would eventually bring us to this moment. Ever since, I have consistently argued against the confrontational path he set the United States on. That record speaks for itself, which is why I can say what follows without…

[ad_1] In May 2025, a new gospel was preached on the internet. Albert Einstein supposedly had endorsed Buddhism in a 1954 interview, claiming he had scientific proof of a kind of afterlife with reincarnation. Over fifty versions of this gospel appeared, many of them resembling AI-generated memes. The YouTube channel “Secrets of the Beyond” has attracted almost a million views with their version. Almost half the others just paraphrase this version. The others are wildly different, some even including the Men in Black. I won’t even address the ludicrous double bottom of Einstein’s friend’s safe or how an interview that…