We’re going to need a bigger village
Reading Time: 6 minutes It might surprise some readers here, considering the proactive tone of…
When it’s all too much: How to endure a polycrisis
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Amid many concurrent global crises, it’s easy to forget what we can address. But surviving a polycrisis…
Social media, free speech, and SCOTUS
Reading Time: 10 minutes On February 26, oral arguments for two cases came before the Supreme Court of the United States…
Downsized news media, AI futures, and democratic losses
Reading Time: 7 minutes On Thursday, February 22, Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon announced hundreds of layoffs and a decision to…
Ethnoreligious war and the struggle for a global secular commons
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Much as we might like to think that there exists a global secular commons, a consensus-driven international…
Nuclear panic and the satellite wars
Reading Time: 6 minutes In 1962, the US detonated a high-altitude warhead, with a yield of 1.4 megatons of TNT equivalent,…
Resisting the politics of fatalism
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While recent news finds the world teetering on the brink of many potentially disastrous decisions, in war…
The strange case of SCOTUS, Trump, and the 14th Amendment
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Oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson offered slender options for a super-majority right-wing SCOTUS wrestling with the…
Fighting desensitization in a world of war and disaster
Reading Time: 9 minutes On February 6, 2023, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Turkey, near its border with Syria. Around nine…
Our secular struggle with medically assisted dying
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Suffering from chronic pain, a friend’s grandmother took her own life when I was 18. I was…
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