This shift in tone is significant because it sets the stage for an indefinite period of vigilance. Gone are the categorical expectations of quick triumph. In its place is a protracted total war where the key word is 'mandatory'...

EU forgers even offering "family packs" on Telegram...

...a race to see if the oligarchic empire can manufacture the necessary environment to allow the use of robotic security forces to lock their power in place forever before the masses get fed up with the increasing inequalities...

Intensifying airstrikes have failed to blunt Taliban advance...

“Whatever happened to ‘my body, my choice’?”

Times of Israel in breaking report: "the figures could cast doubt on the effectiveness of the booster shot..."

Living in a cabin in the woods seems idyllic until a spark of lightning ignites the forest and endangers your home...

The "year off" school that many students took due to the Covid-19 pandemic is coming back to bite colleges this fall in the form of a major housing shortage. 

It’s a Brave New World, and it’s not going away soon...

"We need to look at them in a different light. We would certainly be boosting those people before we boost the general population that’s been vaccinated, and we should be doing that reasonably soon."

"We have begun to see softening in national aggregate data."

One Madison resident issued this comment unironically: "It's not the rock's fault... but being moved shows that the world is getting a little better today."

It's no secret Israel is hostile to the Iranian government, but officials have previously avoided such explicit calls...

The main bitcoin buyers continue to be medium-size whales, holders of 10k-100k coins. Remarkably, the smallest cohort of users that own less than 1 BTC saw the next-largest increase in holdings having absorbed 131% of new bitcoins minted over the last fortnight.

Highly skilled equity managers know how to find great stocks, but they are not so good at knowing which positions to sell. That observation comes from a recently published paper.

People are not chasing prices like they were. 

While this change in policy should not come as a surprise since income inequality is a global issue, the speed, scale and intensity of the measures we are seeing in China today are unexpected.

"The combination of intense heat, extreme drought and powerful winds have..."