Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative - Without a reprieve, the country will become a failed state [The Economist]

The great pretender: how Ahmed al—Sharaa won Syria [1843 Magazine]

Dems the breaks: The Democratic Party — Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we assess the state of the Democratic party, and what it needs to do to win back power [The Economist Podcasts]

Following a year of major elections, democracy in eastern Europe and central Asia saw notable shifts—ten countries improved their scores, while 13 recorded a decline and seven stagnated in EIU’s Democracy Index 2024: http://econgrp.co/T8 #DemocracyIndex #Europe #Asia [The EIU]

Leaders Can Move Fast and Fix Things [Harvard Business Review]

Afghan women who fled Taliban to study abroad face return after USAID freeze [BBC]

Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors From Processed Foods [Bloomberg]

Scores killed as Syrian forces seek to crush Alawite insurgency [Reuters]

Desperation grows in Gaza as Israel’s punishing blockade enters one week [AL-Jazeera News]

HRW Calls For Stronger Global Action Against Taliban’s Oppression Of Afghan Women [Afghanistan International] On International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for increased support for Afghan women facing Taliban oppression.

Kamala Harris sets a deadline for her next move [POLITICO]

So Hot Right Now: Menopause is having a moment. And if you’ve got ovaries, you’ll go through it. Rebecca Mead on why every generation thinks it’s the first to experience hot flashes. [The New Yorker]

Inside the high-wire business of MrBeast [The Verge]

This isn’t the economy Trump promised — This week’s rocky economic news is a reminder that Trump was never going to work the miracles he’d promised. [Vox]

Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues [TechCrunch]

AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games [MIT Technology Review]

Random acts of protest: How federal workers are quietly pushing back on DOGE [Business Insider]

Donner aux femmes en Afrique les moyens d’entreprendre, c’est faire avancer la santé, l’éducation, et les droits. AFAWA c’est cela. Cette initiative, je l’ai portée dès 2019 au G7 de Biarritz. Très heureux de voir que les projets avancent. Continuons. - Emmanuel Macron [LinkedIn] #Macron #AFAWA

Texas cities run short of MMR vaccine as measles outbreak drives demand — Pharmacies are struggling with supplies as fatal outbreak expands and health secretary sows disinformation [The Guardian]

‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate Cover — President Trump’s shifting positions and outright lies have presented the American public with dueling narratives at every turn. [The New York Times]

Christiane Amanpour’s Jaw Drops Over Top Canadian Diplomat’s Trump Bombshell [Huffington Post]

Is DOGE Losing Steam? — The Department of Government Efficiency lives. But Donald Trump is reining in Elon Musk. [The Atlantic]

Trump won't sign executive order to dissolve Department of Education today: Sources [FiveThirtyEight]

538 DANCE RADIO app [538.nl]

Multistate lawsuit seeks to reverse Trump officials’ purge of federal workers [The Washington Post]

Plan arabe pour Gaza : le oui mais des Européens [Le Monde FR]

Moon photo reveals how lunar landing just went wrong [Mashable]

‘Stray Path’: The VICE Games Interview [VICE]

“Narco Prince” Sentenced to Life as Trump Ramps Up U.S. — Mexico Drug War [The Intercept_] “The sentencing of Ruben Oseguera-Gonzalez, co-leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, will do little to stem the flow of drugs.”

The internet’s favorite bald eagles just had hatchlings [Nat Geo]

Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program [NPR]

Why this year's flu season is hitting harder [CapRadioNews]

Derrière les « boucliers humains » [Le Monde diplomatique]

Trump Goes All in on Crypto [Foreign Policy]

Get Ready for the Next Nuclear Age: How Trump Might Drive Proliferation [Foreign Affairs]

What Countries Do Americans See as the Biggest Threat to the United States [The Diplomat]

Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life [Quanta Magazine]

#ThrowbackThursday à 1959, lorsque la @BBC tournait un film sur le CERN. [CERN_FR]

Sur la photo, le physicien Ernst Michaelis est interviewé dans la salle de contrôle du Synchrocyclotron (SC).Don’t Sleep on This: Total Lunar Eclipse will Bring Blood Moon March 13-14 [NASA]

What’s up, everybody! It’s Monday, March 10th, 2025. Now unfortunately, the past few weeks have been terrible for the Stock Market, goes to show that the public finds the #TrumpNightmare administration untrustworthy, and wished we had a #KamalaHarris administration instead. Now we need to strongly work together to figure out how to avoid the worst: a possible Great Depression, because we are stuck with Trump for 4 years, unless #Recount2024 takes place. Remember, while Wall Street has fun while Main Street suffers, the 99% will also lose because all of their savings, stocks, and 401Ks are in their portfolios. It’s imperative to fix things soon.