U.S. Journalist & Activist Brandon Lee Shot in Philippines After Being Called “Enemy of the State”
Looking back: When a young Jacob Rees-Mogg campaigned in Scotland with his nanny
BREAKING: Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam set to formally withdraw extradition bill after months of protest
As Economics Profession Looks to Draw Women, Hotel-Room Job Interviews Get Nixed
Hurricane Dorian: satellite images show Grand Bahama mostly underwater
Brexit Vote Goes Against Boris Johnson, and He Calls for an Election
Hindu-American Congressman Ro Khanna: Duty to “Reject Hindutva” 《caugh caugh Gabbard caugh *caugh*》
For me, even worse than the small number of tankies who, like the pro-Assad left did in Syria, support the CCP against Hong Kong, are the even larger number of liberal and leftist academics who remain silent on Xinjiang. Silence is complicity. (Ditto for Kashmir.)
TIL about “gateball” 《a fast paced variant of croquet that is actually more popular than the casual lawn game》
The High School Course Beijing Accuses of Radicalizing Hong Kong
Michael Shellenberger’s sloppy Forbes diatribe deceives on Amazon fires
RIP Immanuel Wallerstein — “This is the end; this is the beginning”
If you are defending concentration camps and police violence against civilians, you’re a fascist. Doesn’t matter if the camps and police take their orders from Trump or Xi.
I just backed The Chhara Oral History Project on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/…
A lot of games require users to manage their inventory. How is this fun?
I know there are people who do very sophisticated work using survey data, but all the surveys I’ve ever been asked to fill out (corporate, institutional, or research related) have struck me as being so poorly designed that no useful data could be collected from them.
Why hurricane maps do a terrible job of communicating the danger of a hurricane
From Vitali Ad Star to Taiwan’s First African Crosstalker 相聲, The Story of Yvon Pierre Loufoua
The Washington Post Fact Checked Bernie Sanders. It Went Poorly