Bird Flu: The “Next Pandemic” is right on schedule
Kit Knightly
We haven’t published anything about bird flu since June. There hasn’t been much to say. Nevertheless, I still regularly comb through journals and news sites, ensuring we don’t miss...
This Week in the New Normal #80
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
JFK 60 Years On – Inside OffG’s Archive
Kit Knightly Today marks 60 years since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, and the last of any worth or note. There is...
The End of the Speed Limit on the Highway to Nowhere
Ed Curtin There was a time when time was time and space and speed had some human meaning, for people lived within the limits of the natural world of...
US Election 2020: From Conspiracy Theory to Conspiracy Fact
Andrew Korybko Time magazine admitted in a report last week that a self-described “conspiracy” run by a “well-connected cabal of powerful people” “got states to change voting systems and...
“Yanks to the rescue”: Time’s not-so secret story of how Americans helped Yeltsin win 1996 presidential election
Imagine Izvestia ran a headline in January 2018 titled “Rescuing Donald”, in which it proudly boasted that a group of crack Russian election-fixers had been sent over to Washington...
