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Reports of the petrodollar system’s demise are ‘fake news’ — here’s why
MarketWatch via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoStories about the collapse of a longstanding “petrodollar” agreement between the U.S. and Saudi...
Cops Seek Sexual Assault, Weapons Charges for Trump-Loving Lawmaker
Rolling Stone· 2 days agoNeil Friske, according to records obtained by The Detroit Free Press. The 62-year-old lawmaker was...
Remembering Vint Lawrence
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe landed in the late 1970s at The New Republic, where over 30-odd years he accumulated a ravishing portfolio. We thought that an anniversary issue was...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 5 days agoAt $125 million, the biggest payout will be made to media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, alongside a group of high-profile individuals like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, former secretary ...
No, We Are Not Living in ‘Late Soviet America’
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt’s vintage Ferguson, brimming with interesting insights, facts, and more than one dyspeptic I-told-you-so. Maybe it’s because he spent so much time...
Orbán goes full Trump with MEGA mission
Politico· 3 days agoThey’ll take another run at it next week when they meet in Brussels for a two-day summit. Power vacuum: At this point the answer to the old (likely apocryphal) adage ascribed ...
Willie Mays Was Baseball’s Last Mythic Hero
The Nation· 2 days agoWillie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for 22 years with the Giants and Mets, died on June 18, 2024. With his death, the era of the living,...
Noam Chomsky isn’t dead yet
The Verge· 5 days agoEveryone dies eventually, and famed linguist Noam Chomsky will be no different — but at the time of this writing, he is alive. Chomsky, 95, has been...
Elliott Abrams: Convicted Liar, Defender of Dictators, Accomplice to Genocide—and Foreign Policy...
The Nation· 4 days agoThe name “Elliott Abrams” has been popping up a great deal of late in the news coverage of Israel’s...
Is a $199,000 Penthouse on East 84th a Bargain or a Bad Idea?
Curbed· 5 days agoLast week, a charming little penthouse on the roof of 103 East 84th Street, a prewar co-op full of...
