"What needs to be known is the role that outsiders have played in instigating and exacerbating Congo’s endless wars."

"This is the first post in a series I plan to write on the work from our group and others that combines ideas from deep learning with ideas from self-organization and collective systems. In this first post, we’ll look at some of the _...Read More_

"The incident highlights the new reality facing Musk, who also runs Tesla and SpaceX: a crisis of confidence in his once-unquestioned brilliance."

>"In her book, "Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives "(2000), Cynthia Enloe examines the role militarization _...Read More_

>"Permanent public artworks by Layqa Nuna Yawar and Karyn Olivier offer airport travelers different views of the Garden State."

"Reflections on Guantánamo, this year’s Berlin Biennale controversy, and the artworld’s tendency for shallow political consciousness"

>"In the shelled-out cities of Ukraine and beyond, artists continue to create in the face of devastating conflict. Here, artists from across the globe explain why they’re willing to risk their lives to salvage meaning from the rubble"

"Around the world, a broad array of efforts are being launched to tackle two pressing global problems: hunger and climate change."

"Culture wars have now entered geopolitics."

"Beyond the culture war over wind and solar power"

"True. When the history books are written, either February ‘22 (Ukraine) or even possibly 2014 (Crimea) will be considered the start of it."

>"To celebrate today’s publication of Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s new book, here is an excerpt about sex and failure. A Cigarette Lit Backwards is set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices _...Read More_

"This intriguing essay could be enhanced by looking more deeply into the abuse of the systems of fighting based on “spirituality and morality” which it explicates."