California Lawmakers Propose Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers

California Lawmakers Propose Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers Plus: GOP hopefuls debate tonight, Canadian link tax backfires, and more… ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN California lawmakers are proposing extending unemployment benefits to workers who are on strike. Striking workers would be eligible to collect unemployment payments after two weeks. The proposal […]

Google’s headache

August 23, 2023 Halfway there! Hell hath no fury like a billionaire protecting one of their beach homes. In today’s big story, we’re looking at the chaos surrounding Google’s augmented-reality plans and how it highlights a bigger weakness at the tech giant.   What’s on deck: Markets: A […]

What Makes Texas So Successful?

by Peter Zeihan on August 23, 2023 ***NOTICE OF WEBSITE DOWNTIME*** We will be making some updates to our website zeihan.com on Wednesday, August 23, starting at 8:00 pm MST. Impacts may last a few hours. We appreciate your understanding. Any further updates will be posted to Twitter.  […]

‘Hip-hop Owes Female Rappers More,’

Hip-hop turned 50 this month and while much of the surrounding conversation has focused on celebrating rap’s past (how a Bronx “back-to-school jam” exploded into a cultural juggernaut) and its future (it is indeed very much female), writer and culture critic Shamira Ibrahim is spending the present excavating […]

What does population decline mean for China?

What does population decline mean for China? Scott Rozelle on a globally invisible issue shaping the lives of millions of the country’s rural kids. Sean Nangle / The Signal (Originally published 2023 | 03.14) China’s worldwide competition with the United States regularly captivates global attention—as with Washington recently shooting […]

The Lighthouse: A New Argentina? | Academic Hucksters in the Sciences | Getting Disney–DeSantis Right

August 22, 2023  •  Weekly Newsletter Javier Milei and Argentina’s Clarion Call Alvaro Vargas Llosa (The Beacon) Is Argentina finally, and dramatically, turning away from Peronism and socialism? First-round voting put a libertarian-leaning presidential candidate, Javier Milei, at the top of the heap. If Milei maintains his lead […]

Airbnb hosts are fed up

August 22, 2023 Hiya! It might sound like a bad joke — or a case of cold feet — but a groom-to-be’s dog ate his passport two weeks before his wedding in Italy. Speaking of traveling, some Airbnb and Vrbo hosts have had enough. More in today’s big […]

When Waiters Wore Red Jackets

From 1966 until 2020, when it closed for good, Spain Bar and Restaurant was a fixture in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Today on NYR Online, Sam Fentress writes about Spain’s appeal, the history of the townhouse on West 13th Street that was its only home for fifty-four years, and the […]

Can BRICS challenge the G7?

Today’s best articles Rafi Schwartz Can Trump follow court-imposed social media rules? Harold Maass Can BRICS challenge the G7? Catherine Garcia Who is 2024 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson? Devika Rao The growing threat of urban wildfires The Week Staff, Justin Klawans 6 volcanoes that could shut down the […]

8/22/23: Biden Heckled In Hawaii, DeSantis Debate Plan, Vivek Accuses Newsmax Of Pay To Play, Wall Street Scoops Up Commercial Real Estate, BRICS Plan For Dedollarization, Screen Time Impact On Kids, Mr Beast Solves World Peace, And Author Speaks Out On Corporate Tyranny

Krystal and Saagar discuss Biden arriving in Hawaii after the Maui fires, DeSantis reveals debate strategy, Vivek accuses Newsmax of pay to play, vulture capitalists scoop up commercial real estate, China pushes BRICS to supplant US dollar, study shows screen time damaging young kids, Mr Beast world olympics […]

What is post-leftism?

From the r/postleftanarchism sidebar: 1) The Left critiquing the Left as an nebulous, anachronistic, distracting, a failure, and at key points a counterproductive force historically (“the left-wing of capital”) critiquing Leftist activists for political careerism, celebrity culture, self-righteousness, privileged vanguardism, and martyrdom critiquing the tendency of Leftists to […]