If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.

This case illustrates the lack of systems to protect artists and artistic expression in Malaysia. The State failed to mediate the online attacks and

For about five years, I was swept up into a cult-like ideology called “Rationalism”, via the writings of cult leader Eliezer Yudkowsky on his website Less Wrong. I'm ready to talk about it.

Malaysia says new ruling by French court could overturn a $14.9bn award handed to Filipino heirs of the Sulu sultanate.

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How our culture, politics and technology became infused with a mysterious social phenomenon that everyone can feel but nobody can explain.

Listen to The History of US Agriculture: How Jim Crow paid off for the Midwestern family farm from Farm to Taber. Episode cover photo: “Roy Merriot getting ready to move a transportable house. He is a tenant of a 160 acre loan company farm which has recently been sold, and is now holding a ‘quitting farm’ sale. This is the third farm he has lost in the last ten years.” Russell Lee, photographer, December 1936, from Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photographs, Yale University Photogrammar Project. Available at https://photogrammar.org/photo/fsa1997021314/PPTranscriptFull bibliographyMain sources in this episode:SC food imports in 1917: Kirkendall, Richard S. 1988. Henry A. Wallace’s Turn Toward the New Deal, 1921-1924. The Annals of Iowa 49(3):221-239. Accessed 3 Mar 2022. Available at https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/10699/galley/119275/view/The Rise and Fall of Pellagra. 2018. Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick, Werner Troesken. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 23730. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w23730Shu-Ching Lee. 1947. The Theory of the Agricultural Ladder. Agricultural History 21(1):53-61.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3739772?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentsPossession and Power: The Legal Culture of Tenancy in the United States, 1800-1920. Adam Jacob Wolkoff. Dissertation, Rutgers, 2015.

The hero in Disney+'s show American Born Chinese follows a familiar journey for colonized people, predicted by theorist Frantz Fanon.

I   They made the desert bloom, tall sparkling towers and clean Bauhaus lines, and apple-ring acacias, and teal blue shuttle buses, and stock exchanges, and theme parks, and for some it was the best time ever and for others it was just fine. ‘Three decades ago, the site of…

The ethnic minority can now openly express their cultural identity but remain vulnerable to prejudice.

Saudi Arabia became a top shareholder while its spies infiltrated Twitter.

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Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Money, regulations, and public beaches are no object.

70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism.

Burning fields are blamed for hazardous levels of air pollution in northern Thailand but the government is doing little.

The country’s annual march for women’s rights was a defiant act of self-assertion that once again sparked panic and condemnation from conservatives.

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White evangelicals in the 1970s didn’t initially care about abortion. They organized to defend racial segregation in evangelical institutions — and only seized on banning abortion because it was more palatable than their real goal.

Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.

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We have to exercise our imagination even as we "snap back to grid."

'There appears to be a historical misunderstanding at foot, and the idea of what a mestizo was in the Philippine context has been lost'

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Dan Clayton looks at a rising tide of martial, dehumanising and manipulative metaphors over asylum seekers and migrants in the UK

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Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full

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