Virginia Heffernan

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Virginia Heffernan

Everyone has their favorite part of Thursday’s cage match. I was instantly startled by the non-pettiness: Musk gunning for Trump’s impeachment, Trump gunning for Musk’s financial ruin. All amid a cacophonous peanut gallery that included Ye, MAGA billionaire Bill Ackman and Musk ex Ashley St. Clair. But the Trump-Musk feud is not just a clash of two madmen; it is a clash between the two fiercest social-media influencers of all time.

2 weeks ago | magazine.cim.org | Mehanaz Yakub |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin

The dual-shaft return air raise at Vale Canada’s Thompson T3 nickel mine in Manitoba, developed by underground mine contracting and engineering firm Cementation Canada Inc., reached a milestone in September 2023. After nearly 600 days of operation, the project set a new record for the longest continuous raise bore in the Americas at 1,076 metres (3,529 feet). Sign Up Already signed up?

1 month ago | virginiaheffernan.substack.com | Virginia Heffernan

What is an American president? In the conversations about former President Joe Biden, something is getting lost. An American president is a person elected to serve just four years in a highly constrained position of leadership over the richest and most powerful nation in the world, during which he or she gets to take a crack at solving the problems that have bedeviled human societies forever.

2 months ago | newrepublic.com | Virginia Heffernan

For years, progressives have fantasized finding a Joe Rogan of their own: someone butch and sonically seductive to beguile America’s acne class with sports jabber and pronoun jokes before turning the screws and making them vote his way. But Blue Joe Rogan will never materialize. And that’s for the best. Blood-sport propaganda by a UFC hype man doesn’t work in defense of liberal democracy. Liberalism, after all, rejects demagoguery as coercive, infantilizing, and anathema to critical thinking.

2 months ago | magazine.cim.org | Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco |Virginia Heffernan |Correy Baldwin

In 2012, Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold expanded its reach into one of Europe’s most mineral-rich zones—a region with a mining history spanning more than 2,500 years—when it acquired Hellas Gold and its Kassandra Mines complex in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece as part of a merger with European Goldfields. Its main assets include the Skouries copper-gold project and the Olympias gold-silver-lead-zinc mine. Sign Up Already signed up?