Well known Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji in FP: www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/new-kha...
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Well known Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji in FP: www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/new-kha...
I don't know if this needs to be said but there's no coherent worldview that objects to Israel bombing churches in Gaza but thinks it's somehow ok to blow up a synagogue in Michigan.
Any time your understanding of the world leads you to justify political violence should be cause to stop and reflect about the moral perspectives that brought you to that place.
Dems should pledge to sign and ratify the ICC treaty that Clinton signed but W (smartly for his ppl) refused to push thru.
Make it clear we will arrest these ppl… and ship them someplace no future vice-signaling GOP Pres’s pardon power can reach.
America's strategy bros about to discover why they should have read all of the Peloponnesian Wars and not just the bit about strong states vs weak states
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
The Embassy of Lebanon in Washington, D.C., and the Lebanese Consulate in Detroit issued a statement strongly condemning the terrorist attack on a Jewish synagogue in Michigan, rejecting all violence against places of worship and innocent civilians. 🇱🇧
The last world leader I recall who bombed demonstrators was Basher Assad.
Part of this is surely just the passage of time, but I think students are objectively getting more impressive.
The thing about crimes against humanity is you never stop with one.
Concentrations of wealth are the biggest threat to democracy around the world and it's not a particularly close call.
These people/families have too much money, too much ego and too much time on their hands, and the result is constant disruption to the functioning of our governance institutions.
i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN.
It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.
Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes
It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...
I believe Grammarly's legal team consists of Atticus Finch*, Thomas Jefferson*, Clarence Darrow*, Perry Mason*, and Portia*.
(* May be AI)
So, does Grammerly have, y’know, lawyers?
And assuming the answer is yes, what exactly do they spend their days doing?
Because if I could see this lawsuit coming a mile away, how is it possible their in-house counsel gave it the green light?
First article I've seen claim to have direct confirmation that Bahrain has re-invited foreign forces into the country to help suppress protestors. Interestingly, in this case it is alleged that the kingdom is using Jordanian anti-riot police.
Talk about a Temu trademark threat.
They heard INDOPACOM saying the PLAN was the enemy and they decided the plan was the enemy
It's not really my area of expertise, but shouldn't Eva and Bruce (and anyone else the machine is trying to ape) have a colorable right of publicity claim here?
Especially if they argued that the feature is potentially competing against consulting work they might themselves do in this space?
Hard to be optimistic after everything that’s happened, but it’s quite possible that the 2026 elections mark a real and lasting paradigm shift around America’s support for Israel.
And if the U.S. posture changes, Canada and other democracies are unlikely to continue to hold the line.
One of the most underrated tragedies of the Biden interregnum is that he and his most trusted advisors looked at a model of regional order designed by Jared Kushner and, for whatever their reasons, thought it was a good idea.
UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project is Hiring a Staff Attorney electionlawblog.org?p=154734
Revoking citizenship is one of the darkest paths a democracy can go down.
Canada actually grappled with this 10 years ago, and Trudeau's response that "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian" was a very affirming moment of our culture and values: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/video...
Literally Trump's only redeeming quality is his ability to torture and humiliate the very worst people in the world.
sorry to thucydides post on main but just because the athenians were normatively preferable to the spartans doesn’t mean the former didn’t deserve to get their shit wrecked by the latter.
Proud to serve on the board of @thecoalition.bsky.social and to stand with researchers studying the tech industry’s social impact www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
It is true that Proton is located in Switzerland and responded to a legal request from the Swiss authorities. But it is also true that most people do not know what an MLAT is and there is a widespread misunderstanding that using Proton will protect your account from US govt requests.
What's particularly insane about saying this today is the unfolding market chaos is a preview of what a world without international rules looks like: no stability or predictability, just 193 self-interested psychopaths battling it out.
Abandoning international law makes everything harder not easier
Lindsey Graham surprised and dismayed that the guy who just did a genocide is not exercising appropriate caution or proportionality in this conflict.