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#1599 Taming the Beast: AI Regulation Before Human Relegation 2023-12-20
Bonus Sample #283 Meaningless rituals are useful but self-driving cars are more questionable 2023-12-16
#1598 Kiss of Death: Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy of Indifference 2023-12-13
Bonus Samples #281 and 282 No one likes how this is going | Not Worth It 2023-12-11
#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity 2023-12-08
#1596 Building a positive future by first envisioning it and then designing it 2023-12-06
#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move (Throwback) 2023-12-02
#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy 2023-11-29
#1594 Testing New Climate Solutions: Geothermal and Geo-Engineering 2023-11-26
#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost) 2023-11-22
Bonus Sample #280 Tracking people and animals in order to save them and ourselves 2023-11-17
#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being 2023-11-15
#1592 Israel and Palestine are less complicated than you think: Standing for international law while condemning crimes against humanity, war crimes, antisemitism, and apartheid. 2023-11-11
#1591 Broken News: Understanding traditional media and social media reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza 2023-11-06
#TBT #1510 Avoiding Accountability: How the powerful in the US have almost always been allowed to skate by (Throwback) 2023-11-01
#TBT #1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress (Throwback) 2023-10-27
#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream being given a vaguely respectable coat of paint by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation paving the way for an unconstrained, lawless, authoritarian Republican president 2023-10-24
Bonus Sample #279 Complainers gonna complain, creepers gonna creep 2023-10-21
#1589 War in the Holy Land: Context Behind the Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Possible Escalation That Will be Detrimental to All Sides in the Wake of the Hamas Attack Israel is Calling Their "9-11" 2023-10-17
#1588 The Shutdown That Wasn't And The Chaos That Is: The far-right of the GOP has been intent on not governing for a long time and eating their own, like McCarthy most recently, is their go-to maneuver. 2023-10-13
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