#Upheavals

The Conversation

ConversationEDU

It's been a big year for news, and never has @ConversationEDU's mission been more important – to inject expert analysis into the news cycle.We asked our editors to reflect on

Michelle Mead

leanansidh3

Random teaser for my memoir, being written under therapist guidance:I only like a few songs by The Doors, because that was the tape sperm donor played incessantly on our weird

Farnaz Fassihi

farnazfassihi

Thread:As a child of immigrants, my parents left a homeland in turmoil for America's exceptionalism. As a journalist, I spent decades covering wars & violent political upheavals in the Middle

Claudia Gazzini

ClaudiaGazzini

In speech from Egyptian airbase, Pres Sisi hints at possible Egyptian direct intervention in Libya. Claims that - if ordered - intervention would be based on Egypt's right of self

Ed Dickson

EdDickson7

This landscape needs a lot of things. It needs less divisive rhetoric, more collaborative working and a re-imagining of food production in the uplands, with educated consumer buy-in and meaningful

Ewan Gibbs

ewangibbs

Today would have been my granny’s hundredth birthday. She died in 2009. I remember her as a loving grandmother who spoiled my brother, sister and I. But I also recall

jess_ralston

jessralston2

Been quite a buzz about a new ‘getting to zero’ report – citing 10m jobs disrupted as a result of net zero transition. This thread highlights a new @ECIU_UK blog

Anti.Anaesthetic ☭📉

Cosmoproletan

It’s important that we understand the establishment of the United States with its declarations of natural liberty as the creation of a “republican tyranny”, a system in which the absolute

♱ Sir Ishio Kitetsu 𖤐

KitetsuIshio

One Outs is magical. It's not excessively monotone as most high school sports anime nor unrealistic as Kaiji. It's a perfect culmination of suspense mixed with thrills and gambling. This

Byzantine Emporia

byzantinemporia

Elite overproduction is the single most important concept for understanding the most destructive upheavals in society: 3rd-c. Rome, 14th-c. Constantinople, 18th-c. France. "Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians."https://twitter.com/

Yuen Yuen Ang

yuenyuenang

Old Cold War frame of binary opposites (authoritarian-communism vs. democratic-capitalism) won't work understanding Sino-American competition todayNo doubt, CCP is an authoritarian regime, AND with an authoritarian revival under Xi, but

Steve Munro

SwanBoatSteve

Yesterday, I peered back into that mysterious land before the pandemic, and watched "Requiem for the American Dream". This doc was made in 2015 with some footage from years immediately

Brian Thorson

BGThorson

What if instead of going on staff rides to historical battlefields we went on staff rides to future battlefields? Throughout history, militaries have failed to envision the changing character of

Uta Staiger

ukstaiger

For those who (understandably) wanted to take a summer break from Brexit (or are being sidetracked by issues such as COVID, Belarus, Turkey, A-levels...), here’s a round-up of news &

Tareq M. | طارق بن محمد

Ctrl6

Scattered points, but somehow interlinked:When did the #UnitedStates start paying attention to the Middle East? Or let me ask in a different formulation, when did the United States realize the

Airwars

airwars

On this day, ten years ago, the Libyan revolution started with protests in Benghazi. The uprising sparked the fall of the Gaddafi regime and was followed by a decade of

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.