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September 2025

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7Karl Rove: " 'They' Didn't Kill Charlie Kirk".
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9Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: "Why everything Pam Bondi said about 'hate speech' is wrong".
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8Taylor Lorenz: Why People Are Roleplaying Robot Racism.
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21 G. Elliott Morris: Polls overestimate how much either side supports political violence, and learning how uncommon that viewpoint is in itself decreases support for partisan violence.
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29 The Nation: "When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children."
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40 Erin in the Morning: We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life.
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20 Owen Jones: Charlie Kirk's assassination: a dark, cold winter is coming.
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25 The Dissident: America's 'Years of Lead' are here.
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16Foreign Affairs: El Salvador’s police state will soon face a reckoning.
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26The Guardian: Authoritative to authoritarian: rightwing radicalisation is blurring the British Conservatives’ political red lines.
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31 The Economist: How Europe’s hard right threatens the economy.
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17Foreign Affairs: Ungoverning America: the "logic" behind Trump’s assault on the administrative state.

August 2025

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18Financial Times: The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders
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16The Economist: How the trial of Jair Bolsonaro offers America a lesson in democratic maturity.
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28Foreign Affairs: Warnings From Weimar - Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
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37Harper's: Why the US Congress must impeach Trump
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39Los Angeles Times: AI hype is fading fast; Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash
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27Rolling Stone: Here are some of the American corporations and universities cowardly capitulating to Trump.
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41Project Syndicate: Starvation in Gaza and our global shame
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23Slate: Kim Davis's recent appeal to the US Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality is probably not the prime concern for gay rights at the moment; the court is likely looking to undermine LGBT rights in more subtle ways, and her appeal is reportedly malformed.
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49The Guardian: Gender non-conforming British women tell of toilet abuse after transwomen were stripped of gender protections. Despite explicit promises that 'bathroom policing' for 'biological males' would not happen.
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21The Guardian: The UK's "Online Safety Act" is a recipe for censorship, and the rest of the world is following suit.
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21Americas Quarterly: Can liberal democracy adapt before it unravels?
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21Foreign Affairs: How to resist a dictator: what Belarus’s Democratic Opposition reveals—and what it needs to win
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16Foreign Affairs: Taiwan’s democracy is in trouble: How polarization undermines security
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19The Economist: Why Israel must hold itself to account
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20Foreign Affairs: The unparalleled devastation of Gaza
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13The Guardian: Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories.
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17New York Times: The militarization of Silicon Valley.
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29The Guardian: UK academics studying topics sensitive to China face harassment, survey finds.
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19Grist: Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life in America. Here’s how.
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19The Guardian: Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past.
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19The Guardian: How plastic 'Deposit Return' schemes help nations hit recycling targets.

July 2025

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20Stuff: Apparently it is well known that Trump cheats at golf. Colour me surprised.
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17Financial Times: The coming crypto crisis.
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38Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble "Yes, Generative AI 'Does Something,' But AI Is Predominantly Marketed Based On Lies"
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20The Guardian: Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.
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15BBC News: How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis.
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31The Guardian: Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
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19Grist: Why the American federal government is making climate data disappear.
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26Techdirt: Who goes MAGA? It is...to an immense extent, the disease of a generation
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25Financial Times: The folly of America’s R&D cuts
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18Paul Krugman: Trump's Dictator Protection Program - why Trump should be impeached after using tariffs to bully Brazil into dropping the trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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20The Guardian: The radical 1960s British school experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell.
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47The Guardian: ‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda.

June 2025

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30The Nation: The smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani failed. That's a huge deal.
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6SPLC: Trump's unconstitutional and authoritarian moves in LA fulfill the far right's dreams of revenge.
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16The Dissident: The static of a collapsing state: reflecting on being trapped in the American Nightmare.
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14Dissent Magazine: The bad science behind trans medicine bans
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33 The Economist: AI jobs apocalypse seems a long way off
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-6The Philadelphia Enquirer: Trump is using the military to pull a slow-motion coup.
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31Quartz: A decades-old tax rule, Section 174, helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump in 2017 helped dismantle it and the effects are being realized now.

May 2025

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28BBC News: Young American men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'.
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80Historians for Ukraine: "An Open Letter to the People of the USA" - At the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, a group of hundreds of historians from all over the world sign a letter to remind the American people how the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin seeks to undermine freedom, democracy, and truth, and asks Americans to stand with Ukraine.
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29The Guardian: MAGA's era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed.
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24The Guardian: ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India.
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23The Guardian: Extremist blogger to debate Harvard professor at unsanctioned campus event: fascist Mencius Moldbug to debate Danielle Allen, a democracy-focused Harvard professor in an off-campus event

April 2025

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18Rolling Stone: Trump, who owes his freedom to due process, is trying to ruin it for everyone else.
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19The Intercept: Last month, a bomb threat targeted Gaza protesters at Barnard College. The College and the police used it as an excuse to crack down on the very same protesters targeted by the bomb threat.
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22The Guardian: A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the British far right.
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13The Guardian ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
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24Molson Hart: America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back, and tariffs are an awful idea
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22The Guardian: The rise of end times fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor find motifs similar to End Times / Rapture paradigms in not just the Donald Trump administration's Dominionists, but Silicon Valley's "tech bros" as well.
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17The Guardian: ‘A new golden age’: how American rightwing media stuck by Trump as global markets collapsed.
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40The Guardian: We are witnessing the destruction of science in America
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26Washington Monthly: Trump's tariffs are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn't vote for him.

March 2025

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25Angela Collier: How to spot a physics crackpot
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20Media Matters: The right dominates the online media ecosystem, with its bullshit seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces.
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28Current Affairs: Why everyone should care about the right to due process.
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8Taylor Lorenz: "The Rise and Fall of 'the Resistance.'"
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24The New Yorker: The data hoarders resisting Trump's digital purge.
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14CBC News: Does a CO2 pipeline leak in Mississippi hold lessons for Canada?
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21Skye Richardson: It should be easy for progressives to dominate the right on trans issues.
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18CNN: How fascist mercenary oligarch Erik Prince managed to worm his way back inside Trump's orbit.
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20Boston Review: Rule by militia: governments wracked by debt have found militias an effective way of managing restive populations.
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31New York Times: Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America. People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy.
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19The Guardian: Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels.
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41Joe Wrote: Republicans don't hate Social Security because it's broken—they hate it because it works. It attacks a central plank of their world-view; that government solutions are always failures.
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4San Francisco Chronicle: Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way.
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17404 Media: "Buying a $250 residency card from a tropical island let me bypass US crypto laws."
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36Ars Technica: The best current AIs are already using three orders of magnitude more neurons than we'd find in a fly's brain and have nowhere near the fly's general capabilities.
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11The Guardian: The left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that.

February 2025

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11BBC News: Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions.
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15Pew Research: American Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.
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22Rolling Stone: Kash Patel can do a lot of damage without really needing to overhaul the FBI very much at all.
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7The Guardian: Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse
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20The Guardian: ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones.
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15Tech Radar: Google, Apple, and internet restriction – how Big Tech is making censorship "much worse" according to experts.
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20The Nation: Why American Democrats won’t throw a real punch against Trump).
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25Factkeepers: Fascism is already here in America. Do we have the strength to drive it out?
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37Forward: Musk is doing everything the conspiracist right accused George Soros of doing.
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12The Guardian: Prayer and prosecutions: the US ‘hate group’ waging war over Britain’s abortion clinic buffer zones.
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23The Guardian: Black, atheist and unapologetic: the rise of secularism in African American communities.
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22Scientific American: The US is not ready for a bird flu pandemic.
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31FuelArc: It's official: the Tesla Cybertruck is way more explosive than a Ford Pinto
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28Washington Post: The assault on DEI is really a push to bring back legal segregation.
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31Council of Foreign Relations: What Trump’s Trade War Would Mean, in Nine Charts.