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Media Literacy or Misdirection? How Protectionism Lets Big Tech Off the Hook
At around midnight on the evening of January 18, 2025, TikTok went dark. For 170 million Americans, the endlessly scrolling videos vanished overnight in a stunning enforcement of a new U.S. law. Just 48 hours later, and much to the surprise of users, it was reported...
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Raza Rumi and Sonali Samarasinghe on Survival and Journalism
On a recent episode of the WCIB news podcast “Asian in Ithaca: Stories of Race, Culture & Identity,” PCIM Director Raza Rumi told his story of working in, and being forced to flee, Pakistan. Sonali Samarasinghe, a journalist, human rights lawyer, and diplomat,...
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The Key to Maintaining Democracy? It’s Conversation.
On January 25th, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a panel to discuss how candid conversations about differences in opinion contribute to healthy democracy and social...
The Heritage of Language: Antisemitism and Islamophobia are Western Words
As the world watches the dystopian horror movie in Gaza unfolding on social and traditional media, U.S. news networks are giving more attention this week to the Hollywood...
Elitism and the Rest of Us as the New Semester Begins
This week, most college and university campuses will open across the country. The ghastly war in Gaza continues and the U.S. has become more involved as it bombs Yemen. So,...
War Rape and the Question of Hamas
Israeli Zionist women have been speaking out these last few days to bring attention to the horrific rape of Jewish women, and the lack of outcry of feminists, for them, to...
“We Are Too Nice to Our Elected Officials”: Norman Solomon Delivers Second Annual Ellsberg Lecture
On November 16, the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts hosted its second annual Ellsberg Lecture. This year’s lecture, which is...
The 10 Freeway Has Been Reopened but L.A.’s Transit Problem Remains
During the early hours of November 11, a fire erupted in a storage yard underneath the I-10 freeway near downtown Los Angeles, structurally compromising a large section of...
From My Body to Yours, and Gaza to the World
A Meditation on Death, Killing, and Possibility I knew my body was healing from the surgery when I found myself ready to engage with the world and posted on Facebook: I am...
Why Republican Lawmakers Should Ban “The Federalist Papers” from America’s Classrooms
As everyone now knows, since 2021, Republican legislators in several dozen states have banned or attempted to ban consideration of so-called “divisive concepts” regarding...
On the Tragic Inevitability of Stacking Corpses
War. Genocide. Pandemics. Heat. Famine. Racism. Misogyny. Hunger. Violence. There are so many ways for mortal beings to die, especially the most vulnerable, and too often...