Don’t compete

For a society to survive and thrive, it needs to reward its agents when they do things that help in its preservation and growth.

Israel strikes multiple sites in southern Lebanon in response to rocket attack

Smoke billows from the site of Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the area of the southern Lebanese village of Yohmor on Saturday. Rabih Daher/AFP via Getty Images

DHS revokes legal protections for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak in Alaska during a tour on Monday. Alex Brandon/AP hide ca

South Sudan is 'on the brink,' U.N. warns amid renewed violence

Southern Sudanese who have returned to the south by barges stand on the banks of the Nile river in Juba's port on Jan. 10, 2011. Jerome Delay/AP

Trump has U.S. Indo-Pacific allies guessing on trade and security

South Korean and U.S. Navy vessels steam in formation during a joint naval exercise in international waters off South Korea's southern island of Jeju at an undisclosed location on April 4, 2023.

Audible enclaves, voice-to-skull and the Voice of God

A recent article from Science Alert discussed a new technology that can create “audible enclaves,” which are localised pockets of sound that can be directed to a specific listener. Although the technology appears to use sounds that are capt

Voice of America staff sue Trump administration for shutting down network

Staff at the government broadcaster Voice of America have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, which put nearly 900 employees on leave and froze funding last week. BONNI

What we know about the case of detained Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri

Healy Hall, the flagship building of Georgetown University's main campus in Washington, D.C., is seen in 2011. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

Peter Thiel and other technocrats surrounding Donald Trump

Last week Derrick Broze, co-founder of The Conscious Resistance Network, published a video warning of the technocratic tendencies of people who surround US President Donald Trump. In the video below, Broze walks us through how Trump’s secon

What Earth Supplies and What We Need: Carrying Capacity as a Guide for Regional and Planetary Governance and Sustainability

Learning our Way Forward The world order is changing before our eyes (Allan 2018, 29-74, 263-284). During the postwar era, nations specialized in measuring Gross Domestic Product, a standard adopted by neoliberalism and globalization to bol

Farming at the Top of the World

Ed note: The piece below is reposted with permission of the author. As glaciers melt upstream, Pamiri farmers are engaged in regenerative agriculture and saving seeds, while strengthening their culture and biodiversity. Tajikistan’s Pamir M

The Evolution of Modernity

The human world of the early 21st century is dominated by science, cities, and high technology. However, both our modern way of life and our way of thinking about the world sprang up only within the past several centuries. Today’s humans ar

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner embraces melancholy in new album

"When people grieve or go through a great loss, there are just ugly parts that come out of people when they're in survival mode," Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner told NPR, reflecting on the complicated relationships behind her new albu

Compromised integrity: Medical professionals failed to uphold ethics and freedoms during Covid

The covid pandemic exposed the ease with which democratic societies can abandon ethical principles and human rights under collective fear, with a response driven more by authoritarian impulses than science. The medical profession failed to

European military leaders discuss Ukraine peacekeeping force

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to a Canadian Lt Colonel as he visits a military base to meet planners mapping out next steps in the Coalition of the Willing in Northwood, London on Thursday.