By Jeremy Porter, a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. He is currently Director of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Program at the CUNY Graduate Center and Deputy Executive Officer of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. programs in Sociology. Originally published at The Conversation. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in […]

Making history for his country & proving that patience is key ✨ It took Artur Davtyan three Olympic Games to win Armenia’s first Olympic medal in artistic @gymnastics, and at his fourth, in #Paris2024, he advanced from bronze to silver. See you at @LA28, Artur? 😉 pic.twitter.com/B6eod78PgN — The Olympic Games (@Olympics) June 26, 2025

Greetings gentle readers, welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today we present Cloak and Dagger, a spy thriller set in WW2 Italy. It was directed by Fritz Lang and stars Gary Cooper. Reviews: Letterbxd says: What it might actually be instead, is an entertaining WW2 espionage adventure with Cooper playing nuclear physicist

Conor here: In the following video (transcript below), Paul Jay explores how Wall Street firms, Real Estate Investment Trusts, and private equity giants treating homes as hedge funds has put housing as a public good in the rearview mirror and is leading to displacement and homelessness as rents increase evermore. He argues that a solution

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Yves here. It’s sad to say that genocide fatigue has set in as outrage across the world has not moved the one actor that could stop the Israel’s slaughter, the US. Photos of starving children provoked a recent spike of condemnation, but that made no difference. The US and Israel keep piling on with their

Yves here. To help you enjoy a summer weekend, Satyajit Das has penned a new piece on movies, here some major works by Francis Ford Coppola. In passing, Das mentions Bernardo Bertolucci The Conformist (Il conformista), which I saw in the 1970s and is considered to be an influence on Coppola’s Godfather. Sadly I don’t

Part the First: Algorithmic Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. From the article This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it went.  As the subhead notes: Summa Health’s experience highlights the challenges of AI adoption, especially at community health systems: Across emergency departments around Akron, Ohio, physicians were getting overwhelmed. In

Hopefully some schadenfreude will lighten up your Friday. A Wall Street Journal exclusive account describes how billionaires and Zionists are besides themselves with the prospect that simply throwing money behind opponents to Zohran Mamdani in his bid to become New York City mayor is not likely to succeed. But that isn’t stopping them from trying.