The School Reformer "Accountability Era" Narrative Simply Does Not Add Up neither history nor international data supports their theories of decline

The School Reformer "Accountability Era" Narrative Simply Does Not Add Up freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-school...

Romania’s ethnic Hungarians, cruelly tricked by their leaders in Bucharest The level of "coordination" between Moscow and Budapest, revealed by recent press leaks confirms the darkest scenario that Viktor Orban has played the

Romania’s ethnic Hungarians, cruelly tricked by their leaders in Bucharest universul.net/romanias-eth...

The Real Antifa - JSTOR Daily Scholars find Antifa groups are small, decentralized, and largely defensive, challenging common political and media portrayals.

The Real Antifa daily.jstor.org/the-real-ant...

How Not To Do Regime Change Nearly two weeks in, it’s clear just how ill thought-through Trump’s regional war is.

The world has become a very dangerous place because its most powerful country is under the control of a ten-year-old boy. That boy discovered a flamethrower in his parents’ back yard, and is now enjoying the ability to burn things up with it. www.persuasion.community/p/how-not-to...

Employees most excited and inspired by "visionary" corporate jargon may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions for their companies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

US sees steepest decline out of all 193 nation brands in Global Soft Power Index 2026 brandfinance.com/press-releas...

Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government:…

Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths cpj.org/special-repo...

Informer | Seth Ackerman | Substack comment/analysis by seth ackerman editor at large, Jacobin. Click to read Informer, by Seth Ackerman, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Europe's productivity keeps outpacing the US. A closer look at some famous statistics. sethackerman.substack.com

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself theconversation.com/the-greatest...

Why More Companies Are Recognizing the Benefits of Keeping Older Employees By Annie Coleman

Why More Companies Are Recognizing the Benefits of Keeping Older Employees longevity.stanford.edu/why-more-com...

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.

More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...

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Project 2025 January 28th Update This week, GPAHE examines how Project 2025's foreign policies have alienated longtime allies and accelerated the collapse of America's standing abroad. We document turmoil at the Heritage Foundation,…

Project 2025 Is Here. globalextremism.org/post/project...

Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body urges Romania to take measures to prevent corruption among MPs The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has called on Romania to step up efforts to implement outstanding recommendations aimed

Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body urges Romania to take measures to prevent corruption among MPs universul.net/council-of-e...

A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect | Brookings This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them.

At this point in its trajectory, the risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...

The Board of Peace Council - a Trump idea that belongs in the trash Countries around the world have recently woken up with a new hot potato from Donald Trump: the so-called Board of Peace. Some heads of state quickly

The Board of Peace Council – a Trump idea that belongs in the trash universul.net/the-board-of...

How Belgium’s Bart De Wever beat the EU machine The Belgian prime minister dug his heels in on using Russian assets to fund Ukraine. It’s another win for Europe’s populists.

Another win for Europe’s populists. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - Volume 55

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Case Against Lying All The Time A handy primer for Donald Trump One of the most astonishing things about the horrific ICE shooting in Minnesota is how casually and brazenly the President

The Case Against Lying All The Time universul.net/the-case-aga...

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory…

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deepfake porn is not going away. Recognising that is the first step to dealing with it When anyone can fake sexually explicit images of anyone else, we should not be surprised when it happens nor upset if it happens to us

Deepfake porn is not going away. Recognizing that is the first step to dealing with it www.philosophersbeard.org/2026/01/deep...

A New Anti-Political Fervor | NOEMA How the collapse of political belonging is reshaping democracy.

Any successful future movement will have to position itself as both part of the public and prove it can deliver pro-social, material results. A healthier civil society has to be rebuilt from the bottom up. www.noemamag.com/a-new-anti-p...

French-U.K. Starlink rival pitches Canada on 'sovereign' satellite service for Arctic military operations | CBC News Eutelsat, a company largely owned by the French and U.K. governments, is offering Canada an alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband communications in the Far North. The company says it...

French-U.K. Starlink rival pitches Canada on 'sovereign' satellite service for Arctic military operations | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Antwerp’s Museum of Contemporary Art Fights to Stay Open A proposal to reorganise Flanders’ museum system and redistribute the city’s contemporary art collection will be considered by the regional government today.

Antwerp’s Museum of Contemporary Art Fights to Stay Open ocula.com/magazine/art...

Thanks to Trump, the Russians and Chinese are already counting their gains, Europe its losses while NATO is in trouble Geopolitically and politically, Trump's capture of Nicholas Maduro appears to have the potential to deal a major blow to Latin America and Europe more

Thanks to Trump, the Russians and Chinese are already counting their gains, Europe its losses while NATO is in trouble universul.net/thanks-to-tr...

The Cost of Europe’s Weak Venezuela Response International rules are only as strong as the democratic states supporting them. In the wake of the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, Europeans have a vested interest in making a compelling case…

The Cost of Europe’s Weak Venezuela Response carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

Trump Is Going For Regime Change in Venezuela Sadly, it's unlikely to end well.

What History Does—and Doesn’t—Teach Us About Regime Change www.persuasion.community/p/what-histo...

On the Future of Education in a Digital Society
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People Are Violent When Oppressed but Peaceful When Free The Slow Burning Fuse People Are Violent When Oppressed but Peaceful When Free 1/12/25

The Slow Burning Fuse - People Are Violent When Oppressed but Peaceful When Free theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Education’s auto-cannibalism: universities consuming their own purpose while cheerfully marketing the tools of their undoing www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...