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How the Constitution’s Framers Got It Wrong

How the Constitution’s Framers Got It Wrong

James Madison argued that politicians' ambition would lead them to uphold the separation of powers. Today congressmembers’ ambition seems to lead them to do the exact opposite: submitting to Trump and completely bargaining away their own power. George Washington...

Treni persi

Treni persi

A tre anni mio cugino (registrato come femmina alla nascita) ha detto a tutti che era un maschio. La mia famiglia si è limitata a rispondergli ridendo che no, non lo era. Leggi

“Natalcon” and the Contradictions of the Pronatalist Right

“Natalcon” and the Contradictions of the Pronatalist Right

Last month’s gathering of pronatalists in Austin, Texas, revealed a right-wing milieu riven by internal contradictions — and without a plausible plan to significantly increase birth rates. Ambitious and efficacious pronatalist policy will likely have to be achieved...

Warfare Is Hell at the Movies

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is another combat movie that promises to make war look like hell but instead makes it look like a thrilling trial by fire for young men to prove themselves. Warfare is doing very well with audiences and critics, though it can’t...

De Facto Occupation: Israel’s Security Zone Strategy

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. “Security zones” are being seized in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria. Land is, for claimed reasons of self-defence, being...

How Social Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality

In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies media outlets use to present news stories. Framing shapes how we understand these stories by emphasizing certain aspects...

Scary Thoughts from Selidov

Scary Thoughts from Selidov

The war in Ukraine will be over, and those who died will not be remembered as heroes or liberators. “Our own children will curse us,” said one of the participants in the Ukrainian army’s escape from the town of Selidov in the DNR. He witnessed extrajudicial executions...