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In Support Of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Propaganda & Narrative

[ad_1] Robin D. G. Kelley, Substack Most academics in the U.S., as well as activists resisting the genocide in Gaza, are familiar with the case of Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a renowned Global Studies scholar at the University of California, Irvine. On May 15, 2024, Nakba Day, she put her body on the line to protect students from riot police who had stormed their Palestine solidarity encampment. The UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman called the police on campus to dismantle the encampment. Three cops pushed Tiffany onto the concrete, causing her serious physical injury and emotional harm. She was arrested and charged…

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The World Is Writing Rules for Digital Assets – US Cannot Fall Behind

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] While Congress debates whether to regulate digital assets, the rest of the world has stopped debating and started building. In the last two years, nearly every major financial center has adopted, or is finalizing, a comprehensive framework for digital assets. The United States, which has long set the global standard in finance and innovation, is now the conspicuous holdout. Congress can close that gap by passing the CLARITY Act, and the time to do it is now. The European Union’s comprehensive crypto regime, called Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), is fully in force this summer, and firms must be…

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FISA Section 702 Isn’t the Only Way the Government Spies on Our Communications

Independent Journalism

[ad_1] Jeremy Busby & Isabella Lucia Maitino  Truthout/TheAppeal Congress is grappling with the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the controversial program that allows the U.S. government to surveil foreigners and the individuals that correspond with them, including Americans. Its proponents say it’s vital to national security, but civil liberties advocates say it’s unconstitutional. Section 702 expired on June 12 because lawmakers could not agree on terms for a renewal and, without a permanent director of national intelligence following Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation (until prosecutor Jay Clayton’s recent confirmation for the role), talks about resuming the program — with…

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Patrick Deneen’s Conflicting Accounts of Liberalism in America

Media Bias

[ad_1] If you drastically vary your account of the accused while adamantly proclaiming his guilt, you cast doubt on your judgment. So it is with Patrick Deneen and his grave and longstanding accusation against classical liberalism in America. A University of Notre Dame political science professor, an Feminent postliberal thinker, and a significant influence on Vice President JD Vance, Deneen has made a thriving career of condemning the United States as a nation that is classically liberal to its core. In late July, Jason Hart posted on X a clip from a 2021 National Conservative Conference, in Orlando, Florida, in…

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The Money Printers Fueling Socialism’s Rise

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] Here’s a graph the Keynesians, statists, and Wall Street gamblers—yes, we repeat ourselves—would prefer not to explain. At the same time, it also explains why socialism at this late date in history—and after all its abysmal failures the world over—is having some kind of dubious second coming in America. During the last three decades the national savings rate (red line) has essentially collapsed, having fallen from 6.3% of GDP in 1997 to 0.5% of GDP in 2025. Between the same two dates, however, the net worth of US households (blue line) has soared from 4.6X personal income to 6.5X personal income. In economist jargon, the question would…

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