The Supreme Court's last year featured tawdry hack work leaving US law and institutions in wreckage. Here's Justice Roberts' delicate description of the mess cnn.com/2022/09/10/pol…

The rise of Christian Nationalism: from Jesus of Nazareth to Trump of Queens nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opi…

Basic principle of the US "justice" system: If you're rich & well connected, you get off (although it may take while). If you're poor & in socially troubled circumstances, your ass is going to jail--soon! nytimes.com/live/2022/11/1…

COP(out)27: After nearly three decades of talk, the UN Conference of Parties on "Climate Change" refuses to call for deeper cuts in carbon emissions. pbs.org/newshour/world…

Now that book banning and burning is coming into style on the American right, it's worth remembering its earlier origins.

An Orwellian moment took shape as the Advance Placement course planners revised the AP African American Studies course plan. The word "systemic" was carefully removed from such topics as "oppression" and "racism." washingtonpost.com/education/inte…

Given its novel trajectories recently, the term "artificial intelligence" has become obsolete. Among the categories now under discussion are "artificial criminality," "artificial immorality," "artificial inhumanity"... theverge.com/2022/3/17/2298…

The recent "final" version of the IPCC report on the climate disaster facing humanity has been greeted with the same "Ho Hum..." that has met its earlier dire warnings decades over several decades. "Oh, please don't interrupt our ongoing festival of production and consumption!"

Racism explained in 30 seconds youtube.com/shorts/9IB3Qu_…

Add this to your list of autonomous technologies. "The Next Fear on A.I.: Hollywood’s Killer Robots Become the Military’s Tools" -- NY Times nytimes.com/2023/05/05/us/…

During Donald Trump's resurgence, a number of "conservatives" have committed themselves to an all out attack on the fundamentals of American democracy and its legal framework. Fortunately, a small group of conservative lawyers has announced its resistance nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opi…