This Week’s Toy News Is Inquisitive, Amazing, and Peckish
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the latest toy news on the internet. This week, Star Wars heads to the battlefront with...
California EV owners asked to curb charging ahead of travel holiday
As a brutal heat wave cooks the West in the run-up to Labor Day, California’s power grid manager is calling on electric vehicle owners to avoid...
Daily Crunch: Nvidia chips become collateral damage in new US sanctions targeting China
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My Husband the War Criminal
Pension Schmidt, better known as “Salon Kitty,” was one of the most glamorous bordellos in Nazi Germany. Among its illustrious clientele were foreign diplomats, government ministers,...
The Party’s Over
In 1991 Margaret Thatcher accepted an invitation to speak in the city that had just ceased to be Leningrad and was now St. Petersburg again. As...
Rococo Risks
Ange Mlinko’s Venice opens with a prefatory poem recalling a trip from Beirut to Cyprus, the birthplace of Aphrodite. It is Boxing Day 2009. The poet...
Our Toxic Nuclear Present
Back when movies were still available on VHS, a friend gave me Akira Kurosawa’s I Live in Fear (1955). (The Japanese title, Ikimono no kiroku, translates...
Toy Apple Beauty
First there is the outsider.Then there is a second outsider—lessOutside than the first, but still.Then there is the third outsider,Who is now, actually, inside something,Albeit something...
‘Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive’
In 1969 a UCLA student who was also an undercover FBI agent revealed in the campus newspaper that the school’s philosophy department had recently hired a...
Was the Third Way the Right Way?
To the Editors: Robert Kuttner portrays much of recent Democratic Party governance, especially the Clinton administration, as “neoliberal,” an epithet for policies that he and the...
