Corruption in New York’s Redistricting Plans
Progressives and Democrats were cheered last week when New York state’s highest court tossed out the 2022 congressional district map and ordered the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission to draw a…
Kenya’s Ruto says finance bill to be withdrawn after deadly protests
President William Ruto says he rejects a finance bill that would have imposed a series of tax hikes after protesters stormed the Parliament of Kenya.
Chipmaker Intel to halt $25-billion Israel plant, news website says
JERUSALEM, June 10 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) , opens new tab is halting plans for a $25-billion factory in Israel, Israeli financial news website Calcalist said on Monday, in…
Love Lies Bleeding
As harrowing as it is tender, as horny as it is horrifying, Love Lies Bleeding is one of the best films of 2024. - John Waters
I Saw the TV Glow
Schoenbrun began work on the script for I Saw the TV Glow three months after they had begun undergoing hormone replacement therapy, amid what they described as "overwhelming calamity" following…
The Barricade
by Joyce Ch’ng
Covid might be to blame for an uptick in rare cancers
What could be causing the rise? Some scientists posit that the Covid virus itself could be contributing to the higher numbers of cancer diagnoses, especially for those who are suffering…
What is democracy?
Donald Sutherland reading from Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo