Kyle Chan Americans have wealth, but not health. I'd argue literal life is a much better measure of prosperity that money. What good is money if it's devoured by the auto and pharma industries and we die young from crashes, drugs, guns, too much bad food and too little walking?

Given Hollywood's decades-long courting of China, it's nothing short of remarkable that Sundance Film Festival came to Taipei last year, and is returning this year. Respect to Sundance Film Festival and local organizers G2Go Entertainment for making this happen.

Historian Sean Wilentz: “Many of even the most influential news sources hold to the fiction Trump and his party are waging a presidential campaign instead of a continuing coup, a staggering failure to recognize Trump’s stated agenda.” nytimes.com/2024/08/21/opi…

Taiwan's political party identification trends, since January 2024 elections, per TPOF. DPP: 30.5 --> 34.2 % ⬆️ KMT: 28.5 --> 23.2⬇️ TPP: 22.5 --> 13.8 ⬇️⬇️ 📝 3rd party TPP retreats from "within striking distance" to become #2 territory, to now distant 3rd (like NPP before it)

The memory-holing of January 6th is one of the most remarkably cynical campaign ploys of all time. This video is a reminder of what those who are backing Trump for the corporate tax cuts are also signing up for: youtube.com/watch?v=yCydRV…

The only group that comes out ahead in Trump’s tax/tariff plan is the top 1%

The first rule of conservative politics is you do NOT talk about the conservative policy agenda.

I'm pro-social media, but Musk's idea of Twitter is destroying a centuries-old idea of how knowledge is formed and agreed. Now people don't know what or who to believe - and that's dangerous. My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/67…

I stora delar av världen har liberala idéer om öppenhet och tolerans fått ge vika för främlingsfientlig nationalism. Kamala Harris delstat Kalifornien har gjort en motsatt resa. Skriver i DN om livet efter nationalismen. dn.se/kultur/martin-…

Russia is now trying to pressure Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, and the Rassemblement National party to fight for the freedom of #PavelDurov. Now, ask yourselves why they ask them specifically and directly.

This is how actual fascism actually works.

When you negate the frame, you evoke the frame.

“The contributions of Chinese firms to the Russian war machine," NSA Jake Sullivan told me during his Beijing visit, "enhance Russia’s conventional military threat to Europe.” My latest in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/international/…

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

"Accra is the buckle in a belt of cities, from Abidjan to Lagos, that is becoming the largest contiguous urban zone on Earth." ft.com/content/d0c487…

See now I myself did expect this.

CNN polls from the core swing states (minus NC). Wisconsin: Harris up 50/44 Michigan: Harris up 48/43 Georgia: Harris up 48/47 Nevada: Harris up 48/47 Pennsylvania: 47/47 Arizona: Trump up 49/44 Note: In universe of these polls, Harris passes "270" with WI + MI + GA + NV.

Microsoft built data centers near the drought stricken city of Colon—Mexico gave it subsidies & just one facility was allocated 25 million liters of groundwater a year. That's ~25% of what the general public gets. My colleague Diana Baptista visited:context.news/ai/video/forge…

The degree of Russian compromise of the Republican party is one of the great stories of American political history. Those of us who worked within the party saw it happen, accompanied by a right-wing media industry that found it profitable to label Russian influence a "hoax."