Republicans reportedly knew about Brett Kavanaugh’s second accuser — and then tried to speed up his confirmation
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The rise of YouTube’s reactionary right
Last week, I tweeted out a few links to pieces of media analysis I’d found interesting. One was to danah boyd’s excellent speech on media manipulation, strategic amplification, and responsible journalism. Another was to BuzzFeed reporter Charlie Warzel’s newsletter describing…
Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s looming legitimacy crisis
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination has become a crisis of conscience for America: a test of whether sexual assault allegations against a powerful man are taken seriously by the Senate, of just how real the broader post-#MeToo awakening is.…
Marcellus Hall’s “Lower East Side” |
This week’s cover, “Lower East Side,” was done by the artist Marcellus Hall, and features a wistful portrait of the neighborhood. Hall is a longtime chronicler of the city—his comic narrative “Kaleidoscope City” was published last year—and he recently sat…
Russia’s Rosatom to Order New Robot to Extract Minerals From Arctic Bottom
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear corporation wants to order development of a robotic installation which would extract rare and hard-to-recover minerals at the bottom of the Arctic, Russia’s Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI) told Sputnik on Monday. Head…
UK Media Claims Royal Navy Didn’t Send Subs to Hit Syria Due to Lack of Assets
In early September, a number of media outlets reported that the UK had dispatched a nuclear-powered submarine carrying cruise missiles capable of hitting ground targets, to the Mediterranean. The UK didn’t send its submarines to the Mediterranean to strike Syrian government forces…
