“Make America Great Again” has long been a signature phrase at Donald Trump’s rally speeches. Its recent offshoot, “Make America Healthy Again” or MAHA, is now spreading on social media...
...as fitness influencers and parents embrace a push by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to clean up US food production...
Antonia Mufarech Bloomberg
According to Ruy Teixeira, co-author of the book Where Have All the Democrats Gone? about the ideological and demographic shifts of the party, nearly 80 percent of Latinos fall into this socioeconomic group. And, if nothing else, last week’s election results show the GOP is now the party of the American worker.
Leighton Woodhouse The Free Press
Tom Homan, the man president-elect Donald Trump has selected to serve as “border czar,” defended his family separation policy at an extremist festival last month surrounded by QAnon promoters, election conspiracists, and church leaders wearing crowns of bullets...
DAVID GILBERT Wired
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to remake education in the U.S., pledging to exert more control over funding and classroom lessons, to curb what he views as left-leaning tendencies at universities and even to dismantle the Department of Education...
At its core, what we’re seeing in America is a realignment around class (its own form of identity politics). The middle class and its aspirants that had been supporters of the Democratic Party since the 1930s are now in the pocket of Republicans.
Part of that agenda includes doing away with physical cash and introducing central bank issued digital currencies (CBDCs). The overreach includes geopolitics, with attempts to tighten central control over all the world's regions and nations...
ALEX KRAINER Substack
Going to war is now a rational economic choice in Russia’s impoverished hinterlands. Facing heavy losses in Ukraine, Russia is offering high salaries and bonuses to entice new recruits. In some of the country’s poorest regions, a military wage is as much as five times the average...
Georgi Kantchev Matthew Luxmoore WSJ
A retired NHS surgeon who recently returned from working at a hospital in Gaza said he treated children "day after day after day" who had been deliberately targeted by Israeli drones following bomb attacks. Nizam Mamode said of all the conflicts he had worked in, including the genocide in Rwanda, he and other experienced colleagues in Gaza had "never seen anything on this scale ever"...
Dania Akkad Middle East Eye
The new data, released at the UN’s Cop29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, indicates that the planet-heating emissions from coal, oil and gas will rise by 0.8% in 2024. In stark contrast, emissions have to fall by 43% by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping to the 1.5C temperature target and limiting “increasingly dramatic” climate impacts on people around the globe...
Damian Carrington The Guardian
Shell's successful appeal could have far-reaching implications for corporate climate responsibility. A number of environmental groups around the world are now trying to force companies and governments to comply with the accords through the courts...
Anna Holligan BBC
As glaciers continue to retreat, the Arctic is swiftly transforming into a significant global trade route, with ship traffic increasing by 37% over the past decade. This shift, accelerated by climate change, enables more vessels to navigate Arctic waters, presenting both economic potential and environmental risks...
News.Az
The evangelical Christian barrister John Smyth abused as many as 130 boys and young men in the UK, Zimbabwe and possibly other African countries but an independent review has said there remains little concrete information on his time in South Africa...
Rachel Savage The Guardian
How predatory men are exploiting Western society’s gender derangement. The dark, disturbing and often cruel consequences of letting gender ideology run amok...
Spiked
A history of genetic intermingling reveals a much closer connection between early humans and Neanderthals. Once stereotyped as slow and unintelligent, are now recognized as skilled hunters and toolmakers who treated injuries with advanced techniques and adapted well to cold European climates....
REBECCA SHAVIT The Brighter Side
For the first time, there's scientific evidence that a smaller, lesser known component of the cannabis plant – cannabinol – delivers better quality and longer sleep. It paves the way for finally having an effective sleep aid sourced from medical cannabis that's comparable to existing medications.
Bronwyn Thompson New Atlas
Psychedelic substance use in ritualistic and ceremonial settings dates back as early as 8,500 BCE. Only in recent years, from the mid-20th century, we have seen the re-emergence of psychedelics in a therapeutic setting and more specifically for the treatment of addiction...
Karger
LETTURE
In "Not So Black and White A History of Race From White Supremacy to Identity Politics" , Kenan Malik rewrites the history of the idea of race, demonstrating how substituting ethnic superiority with ‘cultural difference’ has allowed traditional racism to seep back into the mainstream. How
identity politics is, despite its radical patina, a deeply conservative ideology...
VISIONI
"American Coup"
investigates the only successful insurrection conducted against a U.S. government, when self-described white supremacist residents stoked fears of “Negro Rule” and carried out a deadly massacre. Their aim was to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow the city’s democratically elected, Reconstruction-era multiracial government, paving the way for the implementation of Jim Crow law just two years later...
Democracy Now
Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Offred (Moss), one of the few fertile women known as Handmaids in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful Commander and his resentful wife....
“Return of the King” benefits from access to the personal files of Elvis and his notorious manager, Col. Tom Parker, behind-the-scenes as well as aired footage of the NBC special, and interviews from superfans Conan O’Brien, Bruce Springsteen, “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann, Billy Corgan and the late Robbie Robertson, with Priscilla Presley also providing some golden memories...
Richard Roeper Chicago Suntimes
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