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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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
The informal banking system, which has roots in middle-age Islamic beliefs, is notoriously hard to supervise, which makes the exact extent of terrorism financing almost impossible to calculate, a senior Swedish terrorism researcher noted. So-called hawala banks were used to finance…
