As her older siblings prepare breakfast, 13-year-old Cynthia Perez waits at the kitchen table, not very hungry. “I’m nervous,” she tells her mom’s friend Mariana Blanco, who gently brushes the girl’s long brown hair. “I know you are, love,” Blanco says. “It’s gonna be okay.” It’s a March morning in Palm Beach County, Florida, and […]
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s behemoth company that launches rockets and runs data centers, went public on Friday with a target valuation above $1.75 trillion. The move will make Musk, already the richest man in the world, vastly wealthier. A public offering will allow SpaceX to raise even more […]
An old law of journalism says, ‘any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.’ As Trump enjoyed his birthday, his deal to end his illegal war prompted widespread questions.
Edward Curtin Substack “At midnight all the agentsAnd the superhuman crewCome out and round up everyoneThat knows more than they do”– Bob Dylan “Desolation Row.” Perhaps you have noticed – if you have any idea who I am or give a damn – that I have slowed down my political analyses of our current situation. […]
Paul Rogers for OpenDemocracy In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Iran and the United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this week shot down a US Army Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz. At any other time, the US would have seen this as an unacceptable act of […]