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• Unmasking Maskov: How Bellingcat Found a Man Outfitting Russian Neo-Nazis – bellingcat

  September 4, 2025

  H8Core is a Russian fashion brand that sells clothing items glorifying far-right ideology and the Russian mercenary group Wagner. Its products – which include t-shirts, caps and hoodies – have… more ›

• Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere

  September 4, 2025

  The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›

• Tom Stevenson · The Mask Is Off: Bukele’s Prison State

  September 4, 2025

  Giving the US access to El Salvador’s expanded prison system as an offshore gulag has made Nayib Bukele a darling of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/tom-stevenson/the-mask-is-off?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›

• Sinica Podcast: What Does China Want? The Authors of a New Paper Challenge the DC Consensus

  September 3, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/BnRZ2w1 This week on Sinica, I chat with Dave Kang (USC), Zenobia Chan (Georgetown), and Jackie Wong (American University in Sharjah, UAE) about their new paper in International Security… more ›

• El tren verde de Kim Jong-un, el transporte blindado con el que el líder norcoreano se desplaza en el mundo

  September 2, 2025

  El mandatario ha llegado a Pekín este martes a bordo del ferrocarril lento usado desde hace décadas por sus predecesores https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-09-02/el-tren-verde-de-kim-jong-un-el-transporte-blindado-con-el-que-el-lider-norcoreano-se-desplaza-en-el-mundo.html?ssm=BK_CM&utm_source=bk&utm_medium=social more ›

• Google Cloud and CME Group Pilot Distributed Ledger for Trading

  September 2, 2025

  Google Cloud and derivatives marketplace CME Group said they are piloting solutions for wholesale payments and tokenization of assets. The GCUL distributed ledger is designed to simplify the management of… more ›

• Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire

  September 2, 2025

  India’s informal e-waste recycling economy turns millions of discarded electronics into profit while exposing workers to hazardous conditions. https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/ more ›

• The slow train from North Korea: How Kim Jong Un travels to China

  September 2, 2025

  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang by train on Monday on his way to Beijing, Yonhap news agency reported, relying on a slow but specialised form of transport… more ›

• A.I. Is Coming for Culture

  September 1, 2025

  We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-culture?currentPage=all more ›

• Collectors Are Turning To Neo Expressionism Instead Of Trophy Art | The Luxury Playbook

  August 30, 2025

  Neo Expressionism first appeared in the late 1970s and 1980s as a sharp break from the cool restraint of minimalism and conceptual art. With its vivid colors, https://theluxuryplaybook.com/neo-expressionism-vs-trophy-art/ more ›