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The media can't seem to accept a feel-good story. As football fans from around the world share videos celebrating their experience of America during the World Cup, parts of the press are determined to explain why the enthusiasm isn't genuine. It raises a...
Two working-class men in Ireland, people who would benefit from the exact same political liberties and protections, are caught on camera pulling weapons on each other in the street, and Russell Brand uses the footage to make one of his most urgent points yet. The economic systems that promised ordinary people participation in the middle class are collapsing, the material carrots used to keep peopl
Russell Brand raises the question of whether the Church of England has any meaningful relationship left with Christianity or whether it has followed every other institution into the hands of the controlling interests that eventually capture them all. He draws a hard line: Christ is supreme king, above nation, above family, above everything, and his loyalty is absolute and non-negotiable. If forced
Before rehab, before Christianity, and long before any of the public scrutiny, Russell Brand was tripping on acid and smoking weed and having experiences he now believes were genuine encounters with another dimension of reality. He tells Tommy that drug addicts are deeply spiritual people, that the willingness to die for something by definition means you already sense there is something bigger tha
The UK government has announced it will ban access to social media for every child under the age of 16, framed entirely as an act of child protection. Russell Brand argues the real motive has nothing to do with children at all, pointing out that a society genuinely organized around protecting its young would look completely different, from the vaccines it offers to the food in school cafeterias to
Russia's logistical nightmare in Crimea is just beginning. With Ukrainian strikes ramping up throughout Russian-held Crimea, Russian authorities have suspended civilian fuel sales since new shipments can't reach the peninsula.
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Ukraine has struck a key semiconductor facility in Voronezh that could significantly weaken the Russians' ability to produce advanced military equipment.
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Anthony Kaldellis is a historian of the Roman Empire and author of "The New Roman Empire", a comprehensive history of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).
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They were raised on the promise of the Chinese Dream: study hard, get a good job, and build a better life than your parents.
But as China's economy slows and opportunities become harder to find, many young people are redefining what success means. Some are pushing harder than ever to survive, while others opting out completely. What do young people in China dream of...
