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Maria Popova: The Secret Behind 20 Years of Daily Writing
The writer behind the legendary blog “The Marginalian” David Perell May 13, 2026 vMaria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she’s published more than six million words. All the nights I’ve spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She’s introduced me to more writers and ideas than just…
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Prabhat Patnaik 5 January, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare First published at Think Left. These are notes taken by Audrey Chan from Professor Prabhat Patnaik’s talk at the Socialism 2023 conference, which took place in the KL Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall on the 2nd of December 2023. Capitalism is facing an existential crisis. The crisis of overproduction/underconsumption cannot be…
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The $1.5 trillion in military outlays each year is the scam that keeps on giving—to the military-industrial complex and the Washington insiders—even as it impoverishes and endangers America and the world. JEFFREY D. SACHS Dec 26, 2023Common Dreams 34 On the surface, US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one…
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20:12 04.01.2024 © AP Photo / Themba Hadebe S.L. Kanthan All materials Geopolitical analyst S.L. Kanthan looks at global geopolitical shifts in the coming year in his column for Sputnik India. What will happen in 2024? To quote Leo Tolstoy from War and Peace, “We can know only that we know nothing.” The world is…
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Indian inflation is best tackled by addressing food inflation – which is clearly a government responsibility. The role that monetary policy can play in this context is limited. Photo: Raghav Wasan/Unsplash Support Us ECONOMYWORLD12 HOURS AGO In mid 2021, as the world emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, prices started rising in multiple countries. Inflation reached…
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FRENY MANECKSHA·DECEMBER 17, 2023 In this interview, trade unionist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj, who was jailed in the Bhima-Koregaon matter and has just produced a book on From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada, tells Freny Manecksha how prison changes one for the worse, but also for the better. — “BUT the irony is…
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