Nikola Mikovic looks at what the dictator's demise would mean in terms of the Belarusian opposition, the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and the struggle between Putin and the West for regional influence
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“Elon Musk is facing heavy criticism for Twitter’s decision to censor tweets at the behest of the Turkish government right before the country’s presidential election.” — Daily Beast
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Of all the rights claimed by a free people, perhaps none is more important than the right to speak freely and without fear, safe against capricious political retaliation or reprisal. The Founding Fathers considered freedom of speech so crucial to the experiment of self-government that they protected it in the very first amendment.
As a free speech absolutist, only death could stop me from defending the rights of Twitter users to speak without censorship. Well, either death or a request from an autocratic leader asking that I censor certain content that could be sensitive for their regime. Whichever comes first.
Just as schools have evolved beyond ‘chalk and talk’ in the education experience they provide our kids, the profession of demographic forecasting has developed in recent years to the point where school planning can...In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Fear TWD, Yellowjackets, The Great North, Doctor Who, What We Do in the Shadows, Titans, Community & more!
The former minister in Boris Johnson's Government has admitted that the requirement to show ID at polling stations was an attempt to advantage his party, reports Adam Bienkov
Mic Wright explains what happened to non-violent Animal Rising activists on the day of the Coronation
In a bonus episode for supporting subscribers, David speaks with two experts on the private equity industry.
In the latest in a series of damning reports, Byline Times reveals that the new mandatory voter ID requirements have caused confusion and anger among would-be voters. Josiah Mortimer reports
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Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show.
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In his annual report message, St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard discussed the growth of international trade since the 1980s and the reassessment of globalization in recent years.
Ekonomijournalistgruppen har en hel del tydliga devota och inställsamma inslag, där många, kanske de flesta, med tiden har valt att gå ”all in” och blivit PR-konsulter eller pressansvariga på något företag. Andreas Cervenka är ett lysande undantag och hans ”Girig-Sverige” är ekonomijournalistik när den är som bäst, kritisk, upplysande och underhållande … Sverige har numera […]
John Mitchinson explores a presence not a character, lurking on the edge of our technology-addled consciousness...
I had an odd intellectual experience recently. A US high school student wrote to me as part of an assignment, asking for my thoughts on Brave New World, and its current relevance. I replied talking about the role of “Our Ford”, and Gramsci’s contemporary concept of Fordism. That got me thinking about post-Fordism, and then […]
How barriers to the WIC program keep parents and kids from getting what they need.
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Fifteen years after the Lehman Brothers collapse and following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank, Signature Bank, as well as the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse, banks are back in the headlines. Daniel Beunza and Pierre-Christian Fink assembled an excellent panel of sociologists and social scientists, studying banks, regulation and finance, to […]
Trump’s takeover of GOP helped him to write the delegate rules. The number winner-take-all states has grown from seven to 17 I don’t think people have truly grasped what this means: Republicans seeking to keep Donald Trump from becoming their party’s nominee will have to overcome rules even more favorable to the former president than the ones that helped him clinch the 2016 nomination. In 2024, more states will award delegates through winner-take-all primaries — a system that helped Trump when opponents divided the vote, allowing him to be awarded all or most of the delegates with less than majority support. Is it possible that the field will be cleared of everyone but DeSantis (or one of the other candidates) and they will win a majority and Trump will be defeated. But it is highly unlikely. Trump dominates the GOP primary electorate and will probably win a majority in most states even if they manage to clear the field. And, as we know, it matters where you win. If he takes the biggest states with large numbers of delegates, he wins again.