By Neil Crosby – Oct 06, 2025, 3:00 PM CDT Oil markets are split between paper and physical realities. Futures remain backwardated and strong on paper, while physical crude grades show clear signs of weakness. Refining capacity, not crude supply, is the key bottleneck. Oil markets are struggling to reconcileContinue Reading
By Grecia Flores Hinostroza In Peru, women’s rights exist in a strange paradox: on paper, we have the laws, the representation, and the international commitments that promise equality; in reality, our lives tell a different story. Political progress coexists alongside persistent neglect, with numbers that flatter and figures that fail.Continue Reading
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl pushback from MAGA influencers is the latest chapter in a long history of Latino artists facing heat on America’s most significant sports events.The big picture: These flashpoints underscore how Latino performers frequently bear the weight of cultural politics, identity debates, and representation battles on some ofContinue Reading
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. As officials with Hamas say they will respond “soon” to President Trump’s ceasefire proposal to end Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza, brokered with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, we look at theContinue Reading
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. There is $1.5 billion (less lawyer fees and administrative costs) up for authorsContinue Reading
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. With the government set to shut down after midnight tonight, Jonathan Allen explores how both partiesContinue Reading
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we bring you the latest from two major meetings President Donald Trump hostedContinue Reading
President Donald Trump on Monday once again showed his inability to think about geopolitics in terms of anything other than real estate, as he unveiled a shocking Gaza peace plan. “Let us not forget how we got here,” he said at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,Continue Reading
Culture / Books & the Arts / September 26, 2025 Kamala Harris’s 107 Days offers a devastating indictment of Joe Biden. It also documents the limits of her own politics. Kamala Harris at a campaign rally, 2024. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) Presidents cast long shadows. Vice presidents are usuallyContinue Reading
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. President Trump is escalating his attack on progressives following the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk and a deadly shooting thatContinue Reading
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