Happy Easter

View Online Version Specializing in Archaeology, History, Astrotheology, Mythology, and Religion Acharya S – The Legacy     Happy Easter, Here are some articles on Easter by Acharya: Moses, the Promised Land and Easter Easter: The Resurrection of Spring Is Easter Christian or Pagan? I wanted to remind […]

I Shot the Tariffs

Sponsored by Poetry Foundation Nic Johnson Breaking the Conveyor Belt Motivated perhaps above all by culture-war grievance, in the past month Donald Trump has tried to radically reshape a century-old system of global trade. Zoe Guttenplan Spaghetti Underground The MTA’s new redesign of the New York City subway […]

Why MAGA Is Losing Support FAST

This is the playbook for the almost four past months, so far: Talk a big game about a game changing policy. Talking heads point out ahead of time it’s going to backfire. Implement said policy. Policy immediately backfires in the VERY manner that talking heads predicted. Reverse course, […]

Myths That Matter

Wendy Doniger’s article from the April 10 issue of The New York Review, about the millennia-long relationship humans have with horses, appears thirty-one years after her first essay for us, about the history of idolatry. Though she is by training an Indologist, in “The Rise and Fall of Warhorses” she draws […]

The Weekly Wrap-Up for 4/19/2025

Stocks were down in a shortened trading week. On Wednesday, NVIDIA reported that it would record a $5.5 billion charge related to tariffs. Then, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dampened immediate hopes for interest rate cuts. That means that tariff policy, and the accompanying uncertainty, remain front and […]

Good Friday Musings

By Ian Mayes Source I have really been struggling these past few days, this so-called “Holy Week“. The reason for this is because I follow the news, and I have been following the case of the U.S. government’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in particular. Relatedly, I have […]

Trump Takes on the Fed

  THIS EDITION OF THE WEEK IS SPONSORED BY NATIONAL REVIEW APRIL 18, 2025 ◼ Just to clarify, Mr. President: When we said we wanted lower prices, we weren’t talking about stocks.   ◼ President Trump is criticizing Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell for waiting too long to […]

Headlines and Analyst Ratings for 4/18/2025

Ratings changes for ePlus, SBA Communications, Nathan’s Famous, Liberty TripAdvisor, First Foundation, Kaiser Aluminum, Carver Bancorp and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285 to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio April 18th, 2025   Your Wealth […]

Ignoring SCOTUS

Ignoring SCOTUS Plus: A deep dive into the likelihood of China invading Taiwan, a weak dollar, Kasparov sounds constitutional crisis alarms, and more… LIZ WOLFE Movement in Abrego Garcia case: Yesterday, a panel of judges with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration’s attempts to stay a […]

Totalitarian

By Cake Boy I see a lot of authoritarian/totalitarian political influence in modern anarchism. We have leftist anarchists, who say that Maoists are ‘their comrades’. This is ridiculous. Maoist China was a totalitarian state, and you anarchists are supposedly against states? There has never been a more powerful, […]

Candles

Caitlin Johnstone Apr 17, 2025 Listen to a reading of this piece by Tim Foley: They are sending billionaires and pop stars into space while the planet burns and Americans ration their insulin. There are companies marketing AI lovers to lonely people and harvesting their data. Last night […]

Hizzoner Agonistes

Sponsored by Harvard University Press Nawal Arjini and Willa Glickman The President of Brooklyn The saga of Eric Adams’s mayoralty has come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term—from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable. Lucy Scholes The Weight of Their Art A […]

CECOT Forever

CECOT Forever Plus: Israel stopped from striking Iran nuclear sites, Zohran Mamdani wants to soak the rich, and more… LIZ WOLFE DOJ tries to prove Abrego Garcia is part of MS-13: Attorney General Pam Bondi has decided that instead of working to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia […]