Complete erasure will never be possible – because Palestinians endure. And we will remember. Not just in body, but in memory, in story, in taste.
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, continues to insist that without full recognition of the rights of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine, no peace is possible. “Our goal was, and remains, to protect the Russian people who have lived on this land for centuries,” he told an interviewer on August 19. Meanwhile, Russia bombs the very […]
A growing middle class and expatriate population is driving demand and investment into the thriving sector.
The tennis final is slated to start at 2pm on Sunday.
Every day, when I get home from work I feel so frustrated, the boss is a jerk, And I get my sticks and go out to the shed, And I pound on that drum like it was the boss’s head.“Bang the Drum All Day” by Todd Rundgren (aka the Green Bay Packers touchdown song) Each […]
Poole, England seldom makes the news. It’s one of those unremarkable mid-sized cities along Britain’s southern coastline, like Eastbourne or Bognor Regis, with a population of around 151,000 people and a lot of seafood restaurants. But last year, everyone in Poole woke up to find their hometown transformed. In the dead of night on August 10, 2024, someone defaced dozens of signs around the city, erasing the last two letters in the word “Poole” so they instead read “Poo.” Highway signs greeted visitors to the “Historic Borough of Poo.” A large mural of a sailboat said “Welcome to Poo Harbour.” Other signs marked the locations of the “Poo Rail Station,” the “Poo Museum,” the “Sainsbury’s Poo” grocery store, and even the “St. James’ Poo” church. Even tiny “Borough of Poole” engravings on fence posts didn’t escape being revised with a black marker. The culprits were thorough, hard-working, and utterly committed to their juvenile toilet joke.
The Japan Society’s treatment of his works in Emergences is “surprisingly light and dancing,” The New York Times wrote.
Intolerance of CEOs sleeping with their subordinates has survived boardrooms' rightward lurch, even as websites are scrubbed of diversity language and environmental targets quietly languish.
Weeks before Luigi Mangione allegedly shot and killed healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan, I found myself part of an angry mob clamoring for murder.