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from the clearly-complicit dept I’ve long written about how the U.S. establishment press no longer genuinely serves the public interest. Years of consolidation at the hands of (usually) rich, white, male, Conservative owners has resulted in a lazy U.S. press that reflects the interests of ownership. As a result you get a lot of feckless “he said, she said” coverage that struggles to report the actual truth, peppered with infotainment and agitprop. This consolidated media ownership broadly normalizes Trump and Trumpism because it represents the sort of things affluent media ownership likes (deregulation, corporate tax breaks, unaccountable subsidies, rubber stamped…
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Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield’s 1978 book The Spirit of Liberalism is a penetrating defence of liberal principles by a conservative political philosopher, but it also reproaches liberals’ failure to resist an onslaught from the radical Left. “From having been the aggressive doctrine of vigorous, spirited men, liberalism has become hardly more than a trembling in the presence of illiberalism,” Mansfield writes. “Who today is called a liberal for strength and confidence in defense of liberty?”More than a half-century later, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein furnishes a good example of the spineless tendency Mansfield identified. His responses to the assassination of the…
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Crypto bank Anchorage Digital said it holds Strategy’s perpetual preferred security STRC on its balance sheet, adding an institutional backer to Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin…
CPJ documents deadliest year on record New York, February 25, 2026—A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, more than…
Tether USDT$1.0002, the world’s largest stablecoin by market value, continues to shrink and looks set for a second straight monthly contraction, signaling challenging conditions…
Flows into US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds turned positive Tuesday as the price of Bitcoin attempted a modest recovery to $65,000, snapping a run…
The well-followed Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index briefly looked like it was recovering after the Feb. 5 crash. It wasn’t.The premium has now been negative…
Global financial services firm Payoneer is the latest in a growing number of companies that have filed for a national trust banking charter in…
In brief South Korean prosecutors indicted a 39-year-old man for attempted murder following a mismanaged Bitcoin investment. Authorities allege he mixed the pesticide methomyl…
from the hot-stove dept Way back in the ancient days of the year 2020, the world went through this pandemic thing called COVID-19. For…
Undaunted by the plunge in bitcoin BTC$65,643.21 and the even worse price action for bitcoin treasury companies, Adam Back, the CEO of Bitcoin Standard…
Payment processing firm Stripe is reportedly considering an acquisition of all or parts of its rival PayPal Holdings.Stripe is in early talks and has…
In brief Early discussions have reportedly begun, but the talks remain exploratory. Stripe has reached a $159B valuation alongside $1.9T in annual payment volume.…
On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down the sweeping tariffs President Trump had imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. In…