The Brutalist Report

The Conversation

• Trump’s next HUD secretary would have a lot to do to address the history of racist housing policy – and Trump’s own comments and history suggest that’s unlikely [398d]
• China’s influence grows at COP29 climate talks as US leadership fades [398d]
• Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare Advantage – the private alternative to Medicare that promised to cost less [398d]
• How the gladiators inspired evangelicals’ sense of persecution [398d]
• Students go to hell and back in this course that looks at depictions of the damned throughout the ages [398d]
• Amid lull in tit-for-tat missile exchange, Iran and Israel seek to control the online narrative [398d]
• Election reform was on the ballot – voters largely said ‘no’ [398d]
• I wrote a book on the execution of the Rosenbergs for Cold War spying – and a recently declassified document has convinced me that Ethel was innocent [398d]
• I am a scholar of the Rosenberg case. I didn’t always think Ethel was innocent − but I now believe she was not a spy [398d]
• Polling in the age of Trump highlights flawed methods and filtered realities [398d]
• Tiny laboratories that fit in your hand can rapidly identify pathogens using electricity [398d]