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When There’s No One Left To Believe

There’s no one left to believe anymore. Legacy media is dying, either from neglect or oligarchical intent, social media is awash in unqualified opinions and state-sponsored misinformation, and chatbots are

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A Quiet Truth

What we need is a revolution, a new world order where obscene wealth is viewed as a crime against humanity and not conducive to a civil society. We need to

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The Angry Democrat

I think there is a strong case to be made for a new type of political candidate on the left. The upset, annoyed, intelligent, arrogant, passionate intellectual who doesn’t care

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The people of Manchester break lockdown to join the global Black Lives Matter protests.

Can The 3.5% Rule Save America? 

In 2013, political scientist Erica Chenoweth proposed the 3.5% rule, which argued that according to historical data from 1900 to 2006, whenever nonviolent protests against an authoritarian regime reached the

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Dreaming Of Tigers

“I’m not political.” This is something you often hear people say these days. If asked, they will admit that they don’t regularly watch the news or read the paper. They’re

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