Everyone I discuss either age verification, or the forthcoming Android app installation…

Mamata Banerjee’s most important strength is her street-fighting ability, not governance. She won West Bengal for the first time in 2011 by beating the Left Front, which earlier ruled the streets, by…

After 2024, Democrats drew the right immediate lesson: get better at being online. More native creators. More distributed media. More willingness to compete in the places where politics, culture, and…

Tracing the evolution of the metaphor 'paper tiger' from late Yuan and early Ming novels to modern political discourse. It did not originate from Mao's Selected Works, but the term 'paper tiger'…

Practice makes perfect, right? Maybe, eventually, one day, if the courts keep letting him talk, Bill will figure out how to... do stuff in court... without being immediately shot down. Try, try…

For now this is just a disorganized stub index. I keep needing resources about housing policy, so I’m going to start racking them up here. Ned Resnikoff A policy wonk I like. Dissent | Supply and the…

The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked…

Back in November, the Department of Labor made it clear where this was going.They required initial disclosures and told us:A judge would be assignedThis would move into a formal proceedingNow it…

As tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States escalate, a familiar argument resurfaces in op-eds and think-tank threads: if only the decision-makers had real skin in the game — if…

Asked in 2025 whether he had a duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution Trump said, 'I don't know.' >>> Jill Lepore, We the People This book was a birthday present from our website founder,...

It’s been a minute since my last update, and that’s because this is the stage where everything gets intense.The defendants—Sanofi, Chattem, and Quten—just filed their…

Blatant political propaganda sold as a patriotic high budget film

This state Auditor-General report is about the much-anticipated (and now under trial) move towards credit card acceptance on myki readers and an eventual transition to account based ticketing. It was…

The Commerce Commission says our mature market no longer needs mobile termination rate regulation. Chorus launched digital equity product. Fibre regulations under review.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon . *** D rama hit the United Kingdom, this week in 1976 because, as our regular correspondent…

U.S. authoritarians won't be satisfied until the U.S. press is 100% pure propaganda, slathering the extraction class with relentless praise for a rotating platter of violent and terrible ideas.

A conversation about history and the law

My take on slowing down AI.

Expanded service between New York and Springfield is contingent on numerous big-ticket infrastructure projects, many of which are still years away from construction. The post MassDOT In Talks With…

The following are two emails I sent to my member of parliament on March 13 and 18 respectively. I encourage everybody to read, copy, and take inspiration from these. Hi <MP Name> I’m writing to…

“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.

At the end of the previous Blog post about the Ukraine war and how it has affected dark tourism (DT) I promised that I would find a less depressing topic for the next, this Blog post. And so I…

A lot happened, but by today’s standards this felt like a quiet week. I was happy for the break, and I hope that we get to continue relatively relaxing. The Anthropic PBC vs. Department of War case…

Having an App Store is fine. <em>Only</em> having an App Store is not. Or: <strong>the right to install</strong>.

A distinguished colleague (C1) introduced last year’s word of the year – AI Slop – into last week’s The Prozac Liberation Front post. As an unaccountable editor, I took the…

As you may know, Invest Langley City is our community’s vision for infrastructure. It outlines the projects the City plans to build over the next decade or so, including water, sewer, transportation,…

The easiest and the laziest approach to art is to interpret its content psychologically or politically.

Looking back, we will recognise the Iran oil shock as the death knell for hydrocarbons. Renewables will never impart such shocks.

In President Trump's eyes the British Prime Minister 'is no Winston Churchill'. But is that such a bad thing?

In one of my most elaborate undercover ops for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump's attack on Iran. It was 2004 and the plan was drafted BEFORE Bush…

Over the past year and a half, the WordPress ecosystem has been consumed by the dispute between Automattic and WP Engine. The legal battles, the public confrontations, the hostile takeover of…

I was born & raised in the USA and I spent all of my life there until last year. Because I lived in the USA for decades, I was ready for something different. I've encountered Americans over here in…

I very much doubt there is a woman on the left who has not endured some form of misogyny in her organising work. The Cesar Chavez revelations are both shocking and unsurprising. I have written about…

​Yesterday, according to reporting from Steven Greenstreet of the New York Post, the White House registered the domain names alien.gov and aliens.gov, presumably in conjunction with Pres.…

A fun consideration. From the distant perch of a forensic musicologist at least. And for now, at least. I just finished reading The National Law Review’s “Universal Music Group May Have…

Rating: 🟩🟩 Type: Non-Fiction

One thing I've noticed in the last few months of intentionally monitoring it - the headlines on the homepage of Fox News are always focused on specific people and characters. They're obsessed with…

For the third time in recent memory, it felt like the world was on fire while the University of Michigan was on spring break. When I was a student at Michigan, I somberly wrote about the 2020 and…

Your government wants you to create taxable wealth.

March 18, 2026 The ‘Great America’ that President Trump has been promising the public looks too often more like Al Capone’s gangster-ridden Chicago of the 1920’s – except even more violent. At…

Could the closure of the Strait of Hormuz help save us from Hellish climate change? At least 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas has been shut down. What does it mean? The awful bright side of this…

"Social conservatism has always been part of Labour!", so wrote Connor Naismith last week. Seeing that Labour suffered humiliation in Manchester , he argues that there are "voices" who are laying the…

In January my former student Zolan Kanno-Youngs was in the news. Along with three of his New York Times colleagues he was part of a conversation in the Oval Office. There was a lot of talking. Some…

In a Walmart in Danville, Kentucky, 66 year old John Hardwick (who had been diagnosed with dementia) was mistreated by Walmart employees while on a grocery shopping trip with his wife. They callously…

Hopefully, it does mean a thing (at least one thing, anyway): The highly esteemed Mr Hendrix would have been entirely unsurprised by monopolistic ticketing practices in live performances (in all…

Some thoughts on the recent New York Times investigation into Cesar Chavez.

Following on from Alan Brown’s guest blog on who really owns Craiganour Estate, I now dig into who is really behind North Glen Estates Ltd., the other entity currently being investigated by the Crown…

Yesterday, the Senate took up S.1383 , as amended by the House, and began consideration of it. The bill is the controversial SAVE America Act , which has majority support in both the House and…

It’s been a while since we last talked about Situationism, that giddy fusion of radical politics and performance art that seized the imaginations of a certain fraction of the European avant-garde in…

Expanding Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport is Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Latest Bad Idea