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Democracy Now!
- Democracy Now! 2025-10-07 Tuesday
Headlines for October 07, 2025; “Trump’s Invasion”: Illinois Officials Denounce Troop Deployment to Chicago as ICE Escalates Raids; Report from Gaza: Israeli Bombardment Enters Third Year Despite Ceasefire Talks in Egypt; Maoz Inon Lost His Parents in the Oct. 7 Attack. Here’s Why He’s Still Calling for Peace.; “Eyes of Gaza”: Palestinian Journalist Plestia Alaqad Chronicles Life Under Israeli Bombs
Fair Observer
- Unlocking the Longevity Dividend for Growth and Resilience
For much of the post-war era, economic analysis of population aging has focused overwhelmingly on its downsides. The dominant framing, especially in aging advanced economies like Japan, Italy and Germany, has been one of demographic doom. Many people frequently cast falling fertility rates, rising life expectancy and inverted population pyramids as existential threats to economic… Continue reading Unlocking the Longevity Dividend for Growth and Resilience The post Unlocking the Longevity Dividend for Growth and Resilience appeared first on Fair Observer.
- Why Do the Beckhams Still Fascinate Us?
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel believed that history unfolded in stages. Celebrity history seems to obey a similar pattern. The first stage is thrilling: novelty, scandal and surprise. The second is saturation: omnipresence in every medium, endlessly discussed and dissected. Then comes the fateful third stage: oblivion. The public forgets, or at best remembers… Continue reading Why Do the Beckhams Still Fascinate Us? The post Why Do the Beckhams Still Fascinate Us? appeared first on Fair Observer.
- FO° Talks: Netflix and NFL Are More Popular Than Church, Gen Z Moving Away From Religion?
Rohan Khattar Singh, Fair Observer’s Video Producer & Social Media Manager, speaks with Anna Mays, a Young Voices contributor. Together, they examine the decline of Christian church attendance in the United States. They compare organized religion with cultural giants like the National Football League (NFL) and streaming platforms, asking whether these have become the “new… Continue reading FO° Talks: Netflix and NFL Are More Popular Than Church, Gen Z Moving Away From Religion? The post FO° Talks: Netflix and NFL Are More Popular Than Church, Gen Z Moving Away From Religion? appeared first on Fair Observer.
Ensia
- Journalists, meet climate change
The headlines scream about war, crime, political strife, economic woes. But underlying it all — and more and more often bubbling to the top — is what future historians will likely look back and call the story of this century: Climate change. Recognizing the importance of this pervasive phenomenon, Covering Climate Now, Columbia Journalism Review, the Solutions Journalism Network, The Guardian […]
The Marshall Project
- Pressure Mounts on Cuyahoga Sheriff for Independent Probe of Tasha Grant’s Restraint Death
Community advocates and surviving family members also want the sheriff to step aside in two other death investigations involving deputies.
Aeon
- Towards good globalisation
How do some countries manage to channel foreign capital into economic development while others are just exploited by it?- by Guilherme Klein MartinsRead on Aeon
Unicorn Riot
- Thousands March on UN, Demand Arrest of Netanyahu
Over 10,000 demonstrators, gathered in the city’s iconic Times Square. The protestors were demanding an end to Israel’s nearly two year genocide. The post Thousands March on UN, Demand Arrest of Netanyahu appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.
Quanta Magazine
- Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle
The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding. The post Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Sludge
- Israel’s New U.S. Influence Campaigns Target TikTok, Churches, and ChatGPT
In the wake of SKDK’s cancelled contract, three firms newly registered under FARA are executing influence operations in the U.S. for Israel.
Yale Environment 360
- For the First Time, Renewables Supplying More Power Globally Than Coal
For the first time, renewables are generating more power globally than coal. But in the U.S., analysts see a tough road ahead for wind and solar. With the Trump administration dismantling support for clean energy, renewables are set to grow half as fast as previously expected.Read more on E360 →
WhoWhatWhy
- Two Years After Hamas Terrorist Attack, Israel Has Sidelined Itself
Within two years, Israel managed to squander most of the goodwill it received after Hamas killed more than 1,200 people in one of the worst terrorist attacks in history. It's time to ask some questions. Two Years After Hamas Terrorist Attack, Israel Has Sidelined Itself originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Inside Climate News
- EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants
Public health advocates pushed back when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it planned to delay for two years a requirement that steel companies monitor air quality at the perimeters of their 11 coke plants in Western Pennsylvania and across the country. Two groups sued. Now, the EPA has reversed course. The deadline to begin
- Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard
The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the past decade responding to hurricanes, wildfires and other natural disasters, the Pentagon has revealed in a report to Congress. The numbers mean that on any given day, 1,100 National Guard troops on average have been deployed on disaster response in the
Grist
- The ambitious plan to protect Northern California’s Plumas National Forest from wildfires
To shield the forest and its communities from the next megafire, the Forest Service plans to burn it — intentionally.
- The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.
Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.
- Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse’s toxic emissions are to blame
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
The Conversation
- Federal shutdown deals blow to already hobbled cybersecurity agency
The triple whammy of deep staff cuts, shutdown furloughs and the expiration of an information-sharing law leaves national cybersecurity in a perilous state.
- 1 gene, 1 disease no more – acknowledging the full complexity of genetics could improve and personalize medicine
Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as schizophrenia and heart disease develop, and with what severity.
- From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country
The retirement of United Mine Workers of America’s longtime president is a reminder that labor and religion have always been entangled in coal country.
- Even small drops in vaccination rates for US children can lead to disease outbreaks
Most states require childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps, tetanus, rubella, chickenpox and whooping cough.
- Tribal colleges and universities aren’t well known, but are a crucial steppingstone for Native students
While more Native Americans living on reservations attend college than in decades prior, just 10.3% earned college degrees in 2020.
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