Documents obtained through FOIA requests reveal that enforcement actions against major financial institutions were dropped without explanation in the final weeks of the fiscal year.
A bill moving through the Missouri legislature would condition state library aid on demonstrated removal of titles challenged under a statewide 'objectionable content' registry.
A decade on from Pinker's optimistic argument about declining violence, Rachel Kessler's rejoinder is careful, data-dense, and refuses to flatten its disagreements into a headline.
From atheism to secular humanism, the terms we use to describe non-belief carry centuries of argument, persecution, and hard-won clarity. Understanding the vocabulary is the first step to understanding the movement.
The collapse of local journalism is not a market failure. It is the predictable outcome of private equity treating public institutions as inventory.
There is a difference between genuine uncertainty and the performance of uncertainty as a way of avoiding difficult conclusions. Our public discourse has become expert at the latter.
The textbook definition of regulatory capture is too clean. Here is how the process actually unfolds, in practice, across industries and decades.
A close look at what the business model of free digital services actually extracts, from whom, and what the downstream consequences have been.
From atheism to secular humanism, the terms we use to describe non-belief carry centuries of argument, persecution, and hard-won clarity. Understanding the vocabulary is the first step to understanding the movement.
The concentration of wealth and power in the late nineteenth century looked permanent until it didn't. The mechanisms of change are worth studying carefully.
The publication of the Pentagon Papers is remembered as a triumph of press freedom. The deeper lesson — about institutional deception and its durability — is less often drawn.
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