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Following a public vote in which more than 37,000 people had their say, we’re pleased to announce that the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’. ‘Brain rot’ is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration”.

American anti-communist propaganda of the 1950s, specifically addressing the entertainment industry

Assad Was Disengaging From Iran, but His Next Steps Are Unclear In Damascus, it has recently felt like change was afoot, and after the fall of Aleppo anything could happen Rasha Elass is Editorial Director at New Lines magazineDecember 3, 2024 No one expected the swift rebel takeover of Aleppo when I was visiting Damascus last month, though almost everyone I met there seemed to think that “something was cooking.” And during my short sojourn, I felt that, too. For starters, nothing about life in Damascus has felt coherent or sustainable since relative quiet befell the country in 2020. Inflation is so high that I found myself having to help relatives not so much carry groceries from the store, but carry the heavy bags of cash required for them to run their daily lives. The Syrian lira trades at about 1.5 million for every 100 U.S. dollars, and a trip to the food market can cost almost as much as a trip to the supermarket in the U.S. — except in Syria the average salary of a government employee, say a judge, is barely $40 per month. The wealth disparity has been sending grandmothers and children dumpster diving, while a restaurant that serves sushi can be packed with patrons ordering more food than they can eat.

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Al-Assad’s Strategy to Avoid Becoming a Puppet of Russia and Iran by Abdullah Al-Ghadhawi / March 11, 2021 / State Resilience & Fragility⠀/Authoritarianism / Recent moves by Bashar al-Assad in the security sphere show the embattled Syrian president still has cards to play to preserve his power, despite having sacrificed much influence to Iran and Russia to secure his regime’s survival in the civil war. Despite everything being said about the Syrian president’s weakness and inability to manage the country alone, he is still holding on to power despite the encroachment of his Russian and Iranian allies and, as his late father did, exploiting the regime’s secret weapon: the security services and their sectarian structure. This has proven to be the key to preserving the core of the regime and ensuring al-Assad’s survival...