What Racism Really Costs Us All

About the book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee.

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Climate-Friendly Food Choices: The Blue Plate

Winner of the 2025 IBPA Gold Award.

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Project 2025: Authoritarian Agenda Disguised as Reform

The Heritage Foundation’s 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” lays out a coordinated effort to restructure federal governance by consolidating executive power…

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How the SAVE Act Threatens Voting Rights in the U.S.

The SAVE Act could block millions from voting through strict ID rules—despite no evidence of widespread noncitizen voting in the…

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Why Is Studying Philosophy Still Vital in the Age of AI?

As intelligence becomes increasingly subject to computational procedures, the enduring task of philosophy is to preserve the conditions of human…

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Why Political Identity Feels Like Moral Faith Today

As political identity turns into personal faith, democratic disagreement becomes sacrilege. Can we relearn how to argue without needing to…

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Who Defines Hate Speech? Law, Platforms, and Political Power

What counts as “hate speech” today is shaped as much by the speaker’s identity and the context of expression as…

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Can Democracy Survive Normative Artificial Intelligence?

As AI systems define norms without consent or debate, democracy faces a silent erosion from within its own infrastructure.

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The Return of the Enemy: Carl Schmitt in 2025

As friend and enemy reemerge as political categories, Schmitt’s ghost haunts today’s democracies.

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Why ‘Ideology’ Has Become a Weapon Once Again

Once a tool for unmasking domination, “ideology” now serves to shut down debate. As claims to neutrality mask positions of…

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Internet Shutdowns as a Tool of Authoritarian Repression

An analysis of internet shutdowns as instruments of state repression, digital censorship, and the erosion of civil liberties worldwide.

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How Group Empathy Can Transform Politics and Society

Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award.

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Patchwork Freedoms: How Enslaved People Won Their Rights

Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023) and the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (2023).

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Rethinking Colonial Caribbean History

Winner of the 2022 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History

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3 Ways Colonialism Shaped Modern Inequality

About Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects, winner of the 2023 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award.

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