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Keith Preston

Republicans May Lead us to Our Doom

Ron DeSantis might not be the answer to the US’s foreign policy problems. Jose Alberto Nino Mar 27, 2023 Share Ron DeSantis for a shining moment took a stand for a realist, sensible foreign policy approach to the crisis in Ukraine, showing everyone that he could potentially take […]

Silicon Valley’s Hail Mary moment

May 8, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Lisa Ryan, an executive editor on Insider’s audience team. Silicon Valley has entered the Hail Mary phase of its business cycle. Today’s big story looks at the tech sector’s last-ditch attempt to avoid a stock market wipeout.   Plus, we’re also […]

The relationship between health and political ideology begins in childhood

Kannan VD, Pacheco J, Peters K, Lapham S, Chapman BP. The relationship between health and political ideology begins in childhood. SSM Popul Health. 2022 Aug 24;19:101214. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101214. PMID: 36059375; PMCID: PMC9434217. We investigate whether childhood health status influences adult political ideology and whether health at subsequent life-stages, […]

Airbnb ‘bait and switch’ scam

May 7, 2023 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Today’s Sunday edition, a roundup of some of our top stories.   On the agenda today: What it’s like being caught in an Airbnb “bait-and-switch” scam. Shopify tried to […]

Overworked, Underpaid, and Fed Up

Sponsored by University of California Press Willa Glickman The Fight for Fair Wages America’s lowest-paid workers are at a breaking point, and grassroots labor organizing may offer the only way out. Michael Hofmann Bewitched by Goethe In Johann Eckermann, Goethe found an amanuensis made in heaven. Jed S. Rakoff […]

Nigel Biggar On Colonialism

Nigel Biggar is an Anglican priest, academic and writer. Formerly the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, he now directs the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life and chairs the board of the UK’s Free Speech Union. The author of many books on ethics, […]

The Superego of the Magazines

“It is blind acquiescence to collective madness, the twisted appeal to the common good, that propels citizens into fascism,” writes Jacqueline Rose in the May 11 issue of the Review. Her subject is Good, a 1982 play by C. P. Taylor that was staged at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London […]

Charles in Charge

May 6, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Chloé Pantazi-Wolber, a deputy executive editor in Insider’s life division. Today, we’re watching the coronation of King Charles III. Since Queen Elizabeth’s death, the world has been wondering: How will Charles write the monarchy’s next chapter? Our answer is “Charles in […]

Is immortality within reach?

View in browser  |  Your newsletter preferences 05.06.23 Who wants to live forever? Maybe … you. If there’s one topic that WIRED’s Science team loves to kick around at pitch meetings, it’s the future of human lifespan. Not only are people living longer, but they’re staying healthier—and that’s […]

Amazon cracks down on hiring

May 6, 2023   A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL After years of excess, tech companies are now in the business of cost control through any means necessary.   Take Amazon, for example. Tech reporter Kylie Robison wrote this week that Amazon’s cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, […]

Why We Need to be Far Less Educated

Imagine teaching young people the molecular composition of rocks, telling them the themes of 16th century literature and how to calculate the volume of triangular pyramids but not teaching them personal finance, how to drive, where to start a business, how to feed themselves or even show them […]

Inside Fox’s Defamation Nightmare

Episode 123 with Mark Bankston Krystal Kyle & Friends May 5, 2023 Taking us from the heartbreaking case of the Sandy Hook victims’ families fighting Alex Jones’ defamation to the more recent case against Fox News, attorney Mark Bankston reveals the complexity of free speech issues at the […]

Why are American students failing history?

Brigid  Kennedy Can Jim Justice take down Joe Manchin? Joel  Mathis Why are American students failing history? David  Faris Julie Chavez Rodriguez: The woman behind Biden’s 2024 bid Advertisement by Enbridge Progressing towards net-zero. Learn what we’re doing today. Becca  Stanek How much money is enough in retirement? […]

‘Among the Anti-Monarchists,’

I am personally looking forward to the reign of King Charles III. I can’t get enough of his barely suppressed rage (exhibited, for example, when his expensive fountain pens don’t work) and his barely suppressed contempt (when he tut-tuts at yet another incompetent Tory prime minister begging for […]

5/5/23: Anthony Fantano on AI Drake Music, FBI Accidentally Kidnap Wrong Man, CNBC Reporter Caught On Cam w/ Billionaire, Art of Class War, Michigan’s Toxic Air, Elon Musk’s New Company Town, 3 Reasons Buzzfeed Died

This week we look at Krystal talking to music expert Anthony Fantano @TheNeedleDrop about how AI created a Drake song that went viral, the FBI accidentally kidnaping the wrong man at a hotel, a CNBC reporter who hosts a show called “Capital Connection” caught on camera with a […]