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Why Some Doctors Say There Are Cancers That Shouldn’t Be Treated

Cancer Is Surging, Bringing a Debate About Whether to Look for It www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/h...

Opinion | The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds

The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Vadym meets his son for the first time -the boy who was born during a massive Russian attack that killed his mom&badly injured dad

On September 7,during a Russian strike on #Kyiv, Vadym&Tetiana Sakiian were injured.Tetiana was pregnant,doctors had to perform an emergency delivery of her son, Nazar.

Opinion | Why Left and Right Can’t Understand Each Other’s Fears

Why Left and Right Can’t Understand Each Other’s Fears www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Waarom euro-obligaties wél een goed idee zijn Column: De EU is een economische macht van jewelste. Toch leunt het Europese financiële systeem nog steeds op de dollar en de Amerikaanse centrale bank. Dat moet anders.

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Mein Gespräch (zum neuen Buch „Zwischen Urknall und Apokalypse“) mit Jürgen Wiebicke im philosophischen Radio des WDR ist jetzt auch als Podcast verfügbar.

Es war ein großer Bogen von der Frage nach Gott über den Urknall bis zum Ende der Welt und der Rolle des Zufalls. Würfelt Gott? (Spoiler […]

❗️Trump told Putin that Russia "may have to continue to fight and suffer, because both sides suffer, before they can be separated." Putin took this as a green light to continue attacks on Ukraine, — The Times

Opinion | The Rise of Right-Wing Nihilism

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Murdered by Russians yesterday in Kharkiv, an entire family.

Grandmother, both parents, 15-year-old boy, 1.5 year old baby girl.

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We should be analyzing trade not bilaterally and in terms of static price affects, as most economists seem to prefer, but rather systemically and in terms of income effects.

Donald Trump calls on China to quadruple US soyabean imports as trade truce deadline looms High Chinese tariffs threaten important market for US farmers

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FT: "Donald Trump has called on China to quadruple its imports of American soyabeans to reduce its trade surplus with the US, a day before a crucial truce between the two countries is due to expire."

www.ft.com/content/d698...

Opinion | Why Rising Rates of Autism and ADHD Might Be a Good Sign

Why Rising Rates of Autism and ADHD Might Be a Good Sign www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Video: The Counties Where Trump Made Gains We look at “triple-trending counties,” where either the Republicans or the Democrats gained vote share in all of the last three presidential elections. Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspon...

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Opinion | The Christian Right Is Dead. The Religious Right Killed It. It’s all more Machiavellian than I ever wanted to believe.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

The Economist cover 👀

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Imagine the fallout if Biden had intentionally tanked the markets like this—and Democrats had cheered him along like it was all just some necessary disruption.

🇨🇦🇪🇺 Canada is in advanced talks with the European Union to join the bloc’s new project to expand its military industry, a move that would allow Canada to be part of building European fighter jets and other military equipment at its own industrial facilities, - NYT

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Inside the White House’s new media strategy to promote Trump as ‘KING’ The Trump administration has transformed its traditional press shop into a rapid-response influencer operation, and “they’re all offense, all the time.”

"After years of working to undermine mainstream outlets and neutralize critical reporting, Trump’s allies are now pushing a parallel information universe of social media feeds and right-wing firebrands" to sell his agenda. @drewharwell.com @sarahellison.bsky.social washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Americans don't do history.

That's why we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Knowing facts is boring. Watching TikTok videos is more fun.

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky offered Trump's special representative Kellogg to go to the front together and talk to the military.

🪖 "They need to understand the realities. Not under someone's influence, but to see it yourself."

Americans are about to learn some economics.

Voor iedereen die het overdreven vond om Fauci gratie te verlenen.

Opinion | The New Rules of the Trump Era Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss the oligarchic power dynamics of the second Trump administration.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

❗️The volumes have surpassed what Russia was selling through Ukraine before Jan. 1, when Kyiv, refusing to allow any more transit that funds Moscow’s war machine, closed off the five-decade old route through its territory.

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

"misinformation is powerful, not because it changes minds, but because it allows people to maintain their beliefs in light of growing evidence to the contrary"

from @cwarzel.bsky.social and Mike Caufield

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Tomorrow's Independent front page revealing Brexit's catastrophic cost - five years after the UK left the EU.

- New bureaucracy
- Weaker UK exports
- Labour shortages in key sectors
- Less cash for public services
- Huge divorce bill
- 15% long term hit to UK trade

This is the price of populism.