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More than 20 tech luminaries, including Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Wozniak, have urged the FCC to stop its plan to repeal net neutrality.

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Web Summit founder rows back on Le Pen invitation ‘based on advice’

Marxism lives because we have not gone beyond the circumstances that created it.

The time is ripe for a movement to replace flawed mainstream economics...but what must it do to succeed?

U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is: Do those jobs pay enough to live on?

Dubai’s secretive offshore financial system seems to play a role in almost every international corruption scandal. Why?

What advice would Elinor Ostrom, first female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics and theorist of 'the commons', offer to Jeremy Corbyn?

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Could decentralizing online life make it more compatible with human life?

The political economist on Trump’s election, why we should be happy about Brexit and the crises facing western democracy

The radical right party profited from the fact immigration was the number one election issue. But can its breakthrough last?, writes Cas Mudde of the Center for Research on Extremism

Don’t make the mistake of thinking you have free will – a book by a US academic has analysed the unconscious, evolutionary instincts driving modern society and the results are a chilling indictment on how far we are yet to come

«… η πολιτική εξουσία της χώρας μας δεν λειτουργεί στην παρούσα συγκυρία αποκλειστικά πρωτογενώς αλλά υπό την επιτήρηση, άλλως την καθοδήγηση, ενίοτε δε και υπό τον εξαναγκασμό διεθνών οργανισμών στους…

Μεγάλες εταιρείες και τράπεζες προσέλαβαν ιδιωτικές εταιρείες πληροφοριών, οι οποίες κατασκοπεύουν τα κινήματα και «προειδοποιούν» για τα επόμενα βήματά τους, σύμφωνα με στοιχεία που διέρρευσαν στον βρετανικό Guardian και στο…

Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Steven Pinker... What unites the thinkers of the intellectual dark web?

It’s mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk’s children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins.Musk is wearing a

A cabal of right-wing Conservatives are attempting to seize power in the name of the people—a maneuver with a chilling historical echo.

Two forms of government have dominated in the west over the last hundred years. In one big power is vested in the state, the government, in the other policy is dominated by the influence of big industry, big corporations, or big money. Well a hundred years after the Russian revolution, and ten years after the financial crash, a whole lot of people all around the world are saying “are there any alternatives?” especially as neither of those models has delivered on a promise of shared prosperity. In Preston, Lancashire, England, a formerly industrial city, the birthplace of the industrial revo...

BI PRIME: State legislators in New Jersey recently passed a bill that will make it illegal to run cashless stores in the state, according to PYMNTS.

An environmental change requires a social change. Read more: https://t.co/I1CI1PohBr #nature #economicsV/@wefC/@Fisher85M @antgrasso @evankirstel @ipfconline1 @TamaraMcCleary @Ronald_vanLoon @Andi_staub @JacBurns_Comext @MikeQuindazzi @SpirosMargaris pic.twitter.com/jgEqw3I61q— Patrick Gunz (@PatrickGunz_CH) December 4, 2018

Russia's sovereign internet bill has been signed into law, giving authorities an easier way to block content.

This post will be an extension and update to the model first shared in Situational Assessment: 2017. Some familiarity with the concepts…

Concerns over limited privacy policies used for online access on smartphones

A close look at the fights it picks and the fights it avoids.

Are the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils just talking shops or a real forum for much-needed change?

As Democrats rally around a fresh-sounding idea, some are looking back to Obama’s $90 billion climate package—and its disastrous political blowback.

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In the last couple of weeks there has been a new take on climate change, predicting that we may have less than 10 years before full wide…

There's a persistent belief across America that crime is on the rise. This graphic amalgamates crime rate data from the FBI to show a very different reality.