Tag: Shankar Panday

While Democrats have been panicking about President Biden losing the 2024 election for some time now, that is not totally rational. National popular-vote polling remains very close, so it's far too early to write Joe off. In the RealClearPolitics averages, Trump leads Biden by 1.1 percent in a head-to-head contest, pretty much where the race has been for the last six months. [...]

In painting the 2024 election as a democracy-or-bust binary choice, the president risks losing voters already dissatisfied with the status quo. [...]

The guardrails of democracy reined him in last time. But they're weakening. [...]

As housing costs continue to be the biggest driver of core inflation, renters are feeling increasingly disillusioned with politicians. [...]

Does the presumptive Republican presidential nominee understand the magnitude of America's challenge? [...]

Opinion: 'Vote Them Out!' might boot me from the Arizona Supreme Court. But it could be far worse for our state's judicial merit selection system. [...]

Leaders in Washington should have answered all these questions, and more, before sending billions to Ukraine. The truth is, though, few have even considered them. [...]

The Biden administration's diversity efforts are based on easily debunked research. [...]

Unknown's host, Charlie Stone, chats with Rainn Wilson about his journey from being a sitcom actor to exploring spirituality and using it as a tool for mental health and making the world a better place. [...]

When Karim Khan was sworn in as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, he said the court should be judged by its acts -- "the proof of the pudding should be in the eating."And by seeking arrest warrants for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Hamas figures, Khan has shown he is not afraid to take on the world's most controversial cases.The application followed an arrest warrant issued last year for President Vladimir Putin of Russia, which promptly slapped arrest warrants on Khan himself. [...]

At least 10 female farm workers died in Egypt when a minibus plunged off a river ferry and into the Nile northwest of Cairo on Tuesday, the health ministry said."The toll is at 10 and could rise," ministry spokesman Hossam Abdelghaffar told AFP.The state's flagship Al-Ahram newspaper reported the accident earlier and said the driver, who had released the handbrake, was arrested while trying to flee.He had gotten into "a verbal argument" with one of the passengers before leaving the vehicle, it reported. [...]

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for residents to leave the Gaza Strip voluntarily and for Israeli Jews to settle there in their stead. [...]

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has reiterated his call for residents to leave the Gaza Strip voluntarily and for Israeli Jews to settle there in their stead. [...]

Palestinian health officials said seven Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin, where an AFP correspondent reported masked gunmen later exchanged fire with Israeli forces.Explosions and gunfire were heard from inside the camp, while at least five gunmen clashed with troops in downtown Jenin city, the correspondent reported.Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military said troops had launched a "counterterrorism operation in Jenin and they were fighting with armed men", without providing further details. [...]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's British-born wife Asma, who recovered from breast cancer in 2019, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the president's office said on Tuesday."First Lady Asma al-Assad has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia," an aggressive cancer of the white blood cells involved in battling infection, it said in a statement.She will undergo a "specialised treatment protocol" that requires social distancing to avoid infection, the statement said, adding that she will "temporarily withdraw from all direct engagements as part of her treatment plan". [...]

Israel estimates that the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi will not significantly change Tehran’s policies on the region, but the death of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian could have some consequences. [...]

Israel estimates that the death of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi will not significantly change Tehran’s policies on the region, but the death of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian could have some consequences. [...]

From camel drivers in the Sahara to nomads on the Mongolian steppe, traditional herders the world over rely on earth's wildest open spaces to support an ancient way of life.But the expansive plains, tundra and savanna they inhabit are in much greater peril than previously thought, researchers said Tuesday in a major reassessment of the health of these crucial environments.As much as half of all rangelands -- encompassing some of nature's most striking vistas from the Arctic to the tropics, deserts and mountains -- are believed to be degraded, the report said. [...]

The first trial in France of officials of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is to begin on Tuesday, with three top security officers to be tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.The Paris Criminal Court will try the three officials for their role in the deaths of two French Syrian men, Mazzen Dabbagh and his son Patrick, arrested in Damascus in 2013. [...]

Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Investments There were two important inflation reports last week. One of them, the Producer Price Index, focuses on wholesale prices and it showed inflation hotter than [...]

Charlie Musick, RealClearMarkets "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interests." [...]

Alberto Mingardi, Law & Liberty Machines will never be more creative than their creators. [...]

Allison Schrager, Manhattan Institute Yes, public markets are risky, but at least they are transparent, and they remain the best option for all but the most experienced investors. Retirement is [...]

Justin Klawans, Week The company's shrimp deal may have worked a little too well [...]

Kate Stalter, U.S. News & World Report Americans are raising the retirement bar as their magic number jumps 15% to $1.46 million. [...]

Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]

Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]

R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]

Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]

Scientists have been finding microplastics in the most unexpected places lately, including Arctic ice and the Great Blue Hole. The latest discovery involves a much less exotic location: namely, human testicles. There’s no easy way to phrase this: there’s now plenty of evidence that testicles are as likely as anywhere else to contain microplastics. That […] The post There’s a Good Chance You Have Plastic in Your Testicles appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Summer. A boon to adventurers, slackers and day drinkers everywhere. A time for playing hard and grilling harder, expanding your horizons, and finally figuring out how to slackline. A season of opportunity, if you don’t mind us waxing a little poetic. And, above all, a time to embrace your inner silly little guy proclivities and […] The post The Toys of Summer: 100 Products for the 100 Best Days of the Year appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Save a few grand on that Orbitz ticket and instead head to Greektown, Chicago’s very own Greece-centric neighborhood. Greektown was founded in the early 1900s, eventually moving to its current location in the 1960s. It’s where both gyros and saganaki were introduced to the United States, so let that be your excuse to order an extra […] The post Where to Eat in Chicago’s Greektown Right Now appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Unlike Chicago’s deep dish or New York’s large, foldable slices, Austin doesn’t have a distinctive style of pizza. But that doesn’t mean the city isn’t booming with pizza options. No matter what part of Austin you’re in, you’re sure to find a delicious slice. In the East, Bufalina doesn’t disappoint when it comes to Neapolitan […] The post The Best Pizza in Austin appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The subject of documentary films including Hitsville: The Making of Motown and Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Detroit native Berry Gordy’s iconic record label, which was founded in 1959 and boasted artists ranging from The Supremes and The Temptations to Marvin Gaye and The Jackson 5, has received countless acknowledgments and accolades over the […] The post The Story of Stax Records Finally Gets the Spotlight appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

San Francisco is blessed with many opportunities to keep fit, including a couple of homegrown gym chains, but it should be said that not all gyms are created equal. What makes a superlative one? A few standouts around S.F. provide an answer, be it a wealth of equipment, outstanding amenities, aesthetically pleasing design, a unique […] The post The 6 Best Gyms in San Francisco appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

New York-based humorist Fran Lebowitz once described the peculiar sensation of walking through the city in the smartphone era: “In New York, at a certain point, I felt I had the streets all to myself because I’m walking down the street looking up. [It’s like] the entire city [was] handed over to me.” She continued […] The post The Bleak Reason No One Says “BRB” or “GTG” Anymore appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

There’s a long history of breakthrough medical discoveries taking place around substances that most of us would consider, well, disgusting. No one much likes cleaning up mold, and yet mold played a huge role in the discovery of penicillin, which went on to save countless lives. More recently, a process known as fecal microbiota transplantation […] The post FDA Cracks Down on the Gray Market for Human Poop appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

In 2022, Sheffield Hallam University’s Forced Labour Lab announced an unsettling set of findings about some of the globe’s most prominent automakers and the origins of certain components of their vehicles. That dovetailed with the release the same year of a U.N. report on forced labor in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China. In the […] The post BMW Is Among the Automakers Under Fire for Ties to Forced Labor appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Just because you might find yourself on a boat or at a barbecue this holiday weekend doesn’t mean you should neglect the time-honored tradition that is shopping the Memorial Day sales. Yet, seeing as many of us will likely be out and about this weekend, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the Memorial Day […] The post All the Memorial Day Sales Worth Shopping Through the Long Weekend appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Ray Brescia, Time Magazine The 19th Century Case That Transformed the Legal System—And Holds a Lesson for the Trump Trials. [...]

Dave Roos, History From dead rats implanted with bombs, to a giant explosive wheel, these World War II weapons were creative, but not very successful. [...]

Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley, BBC An historian who brought to light a clandestine Hydrographic department, integral to the success of D-Day, is on the hunt for the people that [...]

Norman Miller, BBC Beer archaeologists are peering back millennia to recreate brews from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome using ancient methods and ingredients. [...]

Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Forward At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government decided that one of the best ways to fight Communism was… with a stuffed goat. [...]

Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian [...]

Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]

Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]

Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]

Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]

By and large, particle physicists confronted with the need to awe and enthuse an audience of laypersons will have no hesitation in choosing to speak about the Higgs boson and its mysteries - undoubtedly a fascinating story that requires one to start with the 1960ies and the intuition of a handful of theoretical physicists, and then grows epic in a crescendo of colliders that sought and missed the Higgs boson, and then the LHC which finally found the elusive signal of production and decay of that particle.read more [...]

You're not  a Frank-people because you eat Doritos, despite what people writing lifestyle/diet books and New York Times journalists who gush over them want you to believe.Such claims are pure food populism by rich white people for rich white people. It's not science, it's instead not even right enough to be wrong.read more [...]

If the government promises every home a great gardener, most people recognize they won't get a great gardener at all, they will probably get someone who couldn't get a better job while the lawn service they used to use is priced out of reach.There has always been disparity in health care, but that was aggravated when President Franklin Roosevelt instituted wage caps during World War II. Companies who wanted to compete for quality workers could no longer offer more money so they offered "benefits." Like health insurance. read more [...]

The Tennessee Valley Authority couldn't be done today. When it was done, it transformed an area mired in poverty. With affordable electricity, they had water. With water, they could farm. With farming, food became affordable. In a generation, the area was transformed and soon had libraries, schools, and much better quality of life.Environmentalists need to be needed, it is how they feed their $3 billion-per-year appetite, and so TVA could never happen today. Environmental lawyers are so obstructionist and culturally corrosive, TVA can't even replace a coal plant without a lawsuit.A coal plant. When activists claim they care about climate change.read [...]

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have become buzzwords often debated within the United States, sometimes controversially perceived as a redistribution of opportunities. However, in a global context—such as in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) project, led by the European Space Agency and NASA—DEI adopts a unique significance. Here, it is about creating a welcoming and safe environment for all qualified researchers from across the globe.read more [...]

For around 15 years, I have joked 'that's why they got sold for a dollar' when nonsense got published in Scientific American and my statement was both funny and factually correct.They've been in decline for a while, their only hope for survival lay in what The Atlantic and Washington Post also got - a rich progressive (well, 'progressive' when it comes to other people paying taxes while they hide money offshore) who wants to say they own it as a vanity project. They have had that, thanks to the Holtzbrinck family of Germany, since 1986.read more [...]

President Biden was thrilled when Tesla announced it was creating a Tesla Supercharger network, because electric cars were not legitimate until they stopped needing government hand-outs, and few wanted electric cars until they were sure they could charge them on trips.Which no company wanted to do because there were no government handouts. Tesla believed it could solve the problem, and President Biden was going to add to an alarming federal deficit to give them handouts, but the problems seem insurmountable, because Tesla pulled out.read more [...]

Despite Vermont's Agricultural  Innovation Board (AIB), created to inform regulatory recommendations using science, flatly stating there was no basis for a ban on a class of safe pesticides called neonicotinoids, and agreement by Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the Vermont Senate just passed House Bill H706, which will ban such insecticides despite decades of safe use.read more [...]

Evolutionary psychology, the discipline that claimed we're being manipulated by flowers and evolved to like the appearance of black men, also made the bold assertion that the income of your parents during pregnancy made you...gay?read more [...]

With a porous southern border, street fentanyl continues to enter the United States and be purchased by recreational drug users, all while the U.S. government continues to treat suffering cancer patients like criminals when it comes to legitimate pain medication access. It isn't much better in Canada, according to a new study.read more [...]