Echoes of injustice and state violence in a ‘free’ nation and in a tyrannical theocracy
In a world grown numb to the spectacle of state power bearing down on the individual, two images flicker across the global conscience this week with a chilling symmetry. One is the body of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, left bleeding on a Minnesota avenue after a barrage of federal gunfire. The other is the…
The embarrassing emptiness of Trump’s America First rhetoric displayed on the high seas
It is a spectacle that would shame a confidence man and confuse a schoolchild: the great vessels of American commerce, the floating cities that carry our countrymen on holiday, the steel leviathans that bear the goods of our daily lives, almost none of them sail beneath the flag of the nation they serve. They fly…
Double Trouble: Why a common cold can make a fungal infection so much worse
Dealing with a fungal infection can be a frustrating and uncomfortable experience. But what happens if you catch a common cold on top of it? While it might seem like just another annoyance, the combination can actually make you feel significantly worse. The reason isn’t just in your head; it’s a biological battle happening inside…
This Gilded Age created the pool of desperate children on whom predators prey
They came not with a bang, but with a redacted whimper. The last batch of Jeffrey Epstein files landed in the public square: more than three million pages of flight logs, witness statements, and the desperate scribblings of a predator who built his own country of the damned, populated by the rich and the ruined.…
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