I want to hide and to be seen
I suppose I see where we are right now like this: the media and political parties refuse to call racists, racist or bigots, bigots. They editorialise as if racists have…
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor.…
Kamala Harris tells Urban League the Voting Rights Act won’t be revived ‘any time soon’
For former Vice President Kamala Harris, figuring out how to restore the hobbled Voting Rights Act (VRA) is not something that voters and lawmakers should be focused on right now. …
Super El Niño Drives an August Weather Shift as Fall and Winter Signals Strengthen
A powerful Super El Niño is showing rapid development across the tropical Pacific, with increasingly visible atmospheric impacts. The latest ocean analysis and forecast data show the event moving toward…
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
“we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.
Pixar’s Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit.
The purpose of California’s film tax credit is to encourage studios to create and retain production jobs in the state.
What ‘don’t drop the soap’ gets wrong
just because someone has committed a crime doesn’t mean they’ve forfeited all their morals and values, and just because someone has been labelled a criminal doesn’t mean they can’t also…
Printing Money: The Economics of Small Press
We’re obviously in a really strange time for the arts in general: you’ve got a crap economy, everything costs more money, arts funding has dried up, and nobody has a…
Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’
One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness
Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
Solar power is the fastest-growing source of electricity in the U.S., according to Climate Central, an environmental nonprofit. There is currently enough solar installed in the U.S. to power about…