10. Society ‘disappears’ ageing women. So I harnessed that cloak of invisibility to do all sorts of ‘inappropriate’ things
15. Technology built the cashless society. Advances are helping the unhoused so they're not left behind
26. A violent murder, a child on death row - Paula Cooper was 15 when she murdered 77-year-old Ruth Pelke in her Indiana home, and was sentenced to death. But a campaign for her life came from an unexpected quarter
27. Does the American dream foster inequality? New research shows US citizens are alone among wealthy western nations in being largely unmoved by income disparities
33. Green Colonialism | In Sweden’s Arctic, a battle for the Earth’s climate rages, and a question looms: Are we simply trading out one extractive industry for another?
34. After the Hit-and-Run - Can restorative justice offer crash victims like me—and the drivers who harmed us—the healing we need?
38. I Can’t Control the World, But I Can Leave Stickers on It — A perfectionist lets go and helps make the city a little more chaotic, one goofy graphic at a time.
44. “Imagine a Child Gets Stabbed 26 Times”:A 6-year-old boy’s killing outside Chicago stunned the country. The people left behind can barely fathom the future.
49. “Someone tell me what to do” - Uvalde shooting shows contrast in preparedness between students and police
61. A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline
63. The Green New Deal Is the Opiate of the Masses. In the Global North, measures to stop climate change cannot double as ways to further economic growth
72. Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves
75. Dondi Ritual: एक अनुष्ठान जिसके दौरान पुजारी माता-पिता के सामने बच्चे पर पैर रखता है | Viral Video 2023
82. CCP’s Strategic Tactics, Targeting of Non-CCP Intellectuals, and Social Media Cognitive Warfare — The CCP BioThreats Initiative
98. What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister? Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes.
99. When does life end? A father didn’t believe his daughter was dead. He says the hospital still harvested her organs
108. The Izz al-Din al-Qasam Brigades released a photo of a thank you letter written by a former prisoner in the Gaza Strip...
111. A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority.
115. Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access
116. In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IUDs inserted without their consent. Women are now speaking out
117. UK Supreme Court finds Deliveroo riders have no rights to collective bargaining because they aren’t workers
119. The violence against Indigenous women in Killers of the Flower Moon isn’t just historical. It’s an ongoing crisis.
120. Left Behind and United by Populism? Populism’s Multiple Roots in Feelings of Lacking Societal Recognition
125. Armenia's leader snubs meeting of Russia-dominated security grouping over a rift with the Kremlin
139. The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza: The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.
140. Israel is the only country that systematically prosecutes minors in military courts. An estimated 500-700 Palestinian children are tried annually, the most common charge being stone-throwing, which carries a 20-year prison sentence!
141. A Fired ‘Scream’ Star, Clients Booted From Agencies and a Secret Tom Cruise Meeting: Inside Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel
143. White House declassifies intel suggesting Wagner Group is preparing to provide air defense capability to Hezbollah or Iran | CNN Politics
147. A man convicted in absentia for his role in the 1975 murder of the president of Bangladesh and most of his family is living free in Toronto. An investigation by The Fifth Estate raises questions about Canada’s silence in the case
148. "The Iron wall" by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian Zionist author who admits in 1923 that Israel is a colonial project and Arabs resist Israel because they are native in the same sense the Aztecs are to America
167. When Jesus comes back to Earth, can a group of Christians plan on suing him while remaining devout?
168. Physicians’ Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients—An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession
170. Haaretz: Police investigation revealed that Israeli combat helicopters killed Israeli civilians and Hamas likely did not have prior knowledge of the music festival!
175. Israel's War on American Students Activist. In a bombshell, The nation reports that Israel is operating a phony front group in the US to spy on pro-Palestinian students on college campuses
184. In the home of hamburgers and sausages, plant-based meat sales are growing. How did Germany do it?
190. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez just blew up the internet by describing their ‘pretty normal’ typical day amid surging billionaire backlash
194. Sydney's plus-size community tackles fat stigma with life drawing and 'fat babes speed-friending'
196. Dead Perverts Society: A review of "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy" by Costin Alamariu
215. How big is science’s fake-paper problem? : An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature
219. ‘Tyranny of the Minority: How American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point’ by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
223. Whither philosophy? The Discipline Today Finds Itself Precariously Balanced Between Incomprehensible Specialization and Cheap Self-Help
231. Spain; The murderer of Arturo Ruiz maintains that he worked for the Civil Guard in the dirty war against ETA. Police databases have no record of José Ignacio Fernández Guaza, who claims he executed terrorists in the south of France in the mid-1970s
236. Inside the angst and anxiety gripping the Biden administration over the Israel-Hamas war | CNN Politics
240. 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours': a dentist in Gaza is directed to evacuate his neighborhood from a bombing campaign.
246. The world is turning against Israel’s war in Gaza – and many Israelis don’t understand why | CNN
255. ‘Dire’ antisemitism allegations at Harvard could lead to donor exodus, billionaire Bill Ackman warns
272. MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be | the Age of Enlightenment led men to give up on state religions and was a direct inspiration for our Bill of Rights, Republicans are hellbent on returning to the dark Ages
277. What the 2024 Election Is Really About for Trump Supporters: He promised them: “I am your retribution.”
282. When the internet becomes unknowable| Tools for studying social media are being shut down. It’s the last thing researchers—and democracy—need
284. Deep-Sea Mining Could Begin Soon, Regulated or Not [in the Clarion-Clipperton Pacific Zone] (Sept, 23)
289. Mike Johnson's Satanic panic: How evangelical delusions trained Republicans to love Trump's lies- If you believe Noah's Ark was real and demons come out of the TV, it's just a small jump to embrace the Big Lie