The existence of two or three major military powers with colossal stockpiles of nuclear weapons is supposed to reduce the likelihood of Armageddon. So, has it? In late 1945 the preeminent author of se...
09.16.2024 Rt.com and 118 sitesFrom Trump voter to would-be Trump assassin, Ryan Routh is the second person to attempt to take the presidential nominee's life in just two months. And like Thomas Cook, who tried to take Trump's life...
09.18.2024 Dailymail.co.uk and 5 sitesThis is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna. com. au We're fascists. So says Elon 'Lex Luthor' Musk. Rocket man doesn't like the fed...
09.16.2024 Southernhighlandnews.com.au and 120 sitesAn American with a long history of felonies in the US who also tried to recruit mercenaries for Ukraine. We take a closer look at the alleged suspect in the second attempted assassination of Donald Tr...
09.16.2024 Rt.com and 1 sitesIf Tony Tulathimutte’s new book, a collection of linked stories titled “Rejection, ” were a futuristic pop-up book, up would jump unflattering sex pics, medicine for cauliflower acne, unreturned texts, hateful pet birds, the Stanford alumni magazine, terrible food, the odors of crotches and armpits, semi-satirical Judith Butler Halloween costumes and holograms of “friends” who are either poseurs or users or toxic grievance collectors. This book is so cold and lonely you could hang meat in it. “R...
09.16.2024 Nytimes.com and 1 sitesThis is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to theechidna. com. au We're fascists. So says Elon 'Lex Luthor' Musk. Rocket man doesn't like the fed...
09.16.2024 Irrigator.com.au and 100 sitesCover art: a phoenix rising above the orphanage on Marsayas Island Can literature be propaganda? I think the answer is definitely yes, but I want to take a few steps before we get to the way fiction a...
09.17.2024 Dailykos.com and 5 sites‘When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal. ” So said ex-president Richard Nixon. Perhaps he has inspired Keir Starmer. “When Labour does it, it’s not immoral. ” We know now the simple f...
09.19.2024 Telegraph.co.ukThe inaugural Australian poet laureate will be appointed in 2025 as part of the federal Labor government's new National Cultural Policy, Revive . The intention to create the official position was anno...
09.16.2024 Theconversation.com and 8 sitesIt has happened again. Another serene and sunny weekend. Another lone suspect wielding a rifle. Another apparent bid to assassinate Donald Trump. And a nation hurtling into uncharted territory 50 days from a presidential election. On Sunday, Secret S...
09.16.2024 Irishexaminer.com and 6 sites