Rent-to-own nightmare

July 9, 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.   Here’s what’s on the agenda: Wall Street’s recession fears are killing the vibe in the Hamptons. Amex […]

Afghan Interpreter Who Risked Life for Us Shot and Killed in DC, Former Mob Boss on Trump: ‘He Don’t Keep His Word’, Man on Scooter Shoots People in New York

Afghan interpreter who risked life for US troops shot and killed in DC The former military interpreter found work as a ride-share driver and even managed to send money back to Afghanistan to help family and friends. Read more | Join the discussion ‘He don’t keep his word’: […]

Today In War Propaganda

Caitlin Johnstone Jul 9, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The New York Times has a new article out with the headline “Cluster Weapons U.S. Is Sending Ukraine Often Fail to Detonate” and the subheading “The Pentagon’s statements indicate that the cluster […]

Ukraine: a Case Study in ATS anarchism

By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Ukraine’s transition from a former member of the USSR with a command economy to a chaotic market economy has been a challenging and transformative journey. Under President Leonid Kravchuk’s leadership, Ukraine embarked on the path toward a market-oriented system. However, the 1990s proved […]

Warlord’s secret calendar

July 8, 2023 Hello, Insiders! 🚨 Be careful with your weekend emoji usage: A judge in Canada just ruled that the 👍 emoji can represent a legally binding contract agreement.   Today we’re hopping around the world: What it’s like to run a “Barbie-ish” Airbnb in Arizona. Go […]

The Human Landscape

In Kerri Arsenault’s review of Morgan Talty’s short story collection Night of the Living Rez, which appeared in the Review’s June 20 issue, she asks, “What does it mean to live in a nation that’s in pieces and parts, or under another government’s control—where the boundaries are as murky and hazardous as […]

The Infantilism Of Totalitarianism

Why the Meta-Facebook-Threads effort to make language safe is so dangerous Brendan O’Neill Jul 8, 2023 Mark Zuckerberg of Meta-Facebook-Instagram says he wants his new Threads app to be a more positive alternative to Twitter. “We are definitely focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place,” Zuckerberg […]

Has Twitter met its match?

July 8, 2023   A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ALYSON SHONTELL Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg promised us a cage match. And this week, they delivered.   Zuckerberg launched his highly anticipated Twitter clone, Threads. Musk’s lawyer promptly followed up with a lawsuit threat.   I’m not sure […]

Ana Kasparian LEAVES The Left & BLAMES Everyone But Herself

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Calvinism in American Schools

By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition  Calvinism’s influence on the American education system is evident in various ways. The Calvinists believed in the moral duty to engage in productive activities, as they often quoted the phrase “idle mind is the devil’s playground” to defend their lifestyle choice. This ideology […]

American Maoism

By Daniel J. Mahoney July 3, 2023 There is much to be learned by confronting the deep pathologies at the heart of the ideological deformation of reality.   Editor’s Note – This essay was originally published at American Mind on May 5, 2023. Those of us who care […]

Obama The Disappointer

On race in America, I miss his former nuance, balance, and hope. Andrew Sullivan Jul 7, 2023 Barack Obama speaks at a 2008 presidential rally in Selma, Texas. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) In the old days, I called myself an Obamacon. Horrified by my misjudgment on Iraq, sickened by […]

David Weigel On Political Reporting

Andrew Sullivan Dave is a political reporter. He’s worked for The Washington Post, Slate, Bloomberg Politics, and he’s currently at Semafor. He’s also a contributing editor at Reason. In 2017 he wrote a book called The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock, and he’s also a […]

‘Watching the Rewatcher’

A few issues ago, New York exhaustively explored the behind-the-scenes ways in which the TV industry hit new chaotic peaks over the past year. The people who make TV are invaluable (pay writers fairly!), but the chronically online who have made it their literal job to make versions […]