Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Facebook condemned for empowering right-wing magazine to “drive liberal news outlets into the ground”

What do you achieve when you let the Weekly Standard operate as a fact-checker for one of the internet's most powerful platforms? "You achieve bullshit."

Trump, the GOP and Media Pivot to ‘Normal’

Now that he has clinched the nomination, here comes the effort to shape Donald Trump’s image as a regular guy. But he remains “an existential threat.”

This fourth of July, we need to talk about family separation

My family – like many of yours – is preparing for a holiday weekend spent celebrating our nation’s birthday with friends. I’m...

Preventing an American Pinochet

Our democracy is too precious to throw away for partisan gain.

Why we need engineers who study ethics as much as maths

Future engineers must transcend any remaining single-solution mindsets from the past.
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“Somebody is going to die”: Lawyer describes chaos, illness & danger at migrant child...

"They’re breaking the law by taking the children away from their families."

The Mirage of Justice

There seldom are trials for the poor. Instead, under threat of draconian sentences, they are forced to accept plea bargains. The system is a sham set up for elites with godlike powers who seek to advance themselves and their agendas at the expense of the downtrodden.

Seven pointed questions for corporate media about their biases

Unfortunately, many Democratic voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere are unduly influenced by mainstream media.

Nice try, Chris Hedges, but neither Joyce, nor Ulysses offers a relevant political manifesto

Where's proof behind Hedges' hyperbole that James Joyce is especially unique in railing against the "poisons of nationalism and idolatry"—or offers political urgency?

Social Security official: Married working mothers hurt society, condoms rob women of “remarkable chemicals”...

Robert W. Patterson also suggested that homosexuality is a mental disorder and sexual orientation can be forcibly changed.