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African feminists and their allies have a steep uphill battle to fight in the culture war waged by Western conservatives.

In the first of a series of articles on identifying reactionaries, I discuss Austrian Economics and its intellectual “heirs”.

In small towns around the country, wind turbines are doing something to the locals.

I own a painting of a black swan by the artist Selene Perez of Creativity Explored, which I love because it’s a powerful painting of a bird that looks crowded by the paper it’s on—it looks as thoug…

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.

It’s not often that a paper attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what University of New Hampshire assistant philosophy professor Subrena Smith’s paper tried to do. “Is Evolutionary Psychology Possible?” describes a major issue with evolutionary psychology, called the matching problem.

This blogpost is a work of over a week’s worth of full-time research using publicly available sources of information. I’m not associated with the CIA and my sources are limited to Google, news media and leaks. That said, even with a limited number of sources, there is too much information on the topic and it’s impossible to include all of it without making the blogpost impossibly long. I tried to condense the material as much as I could and provide as many references as I could, so that you could all examine the information I used to draw conclusions, if you would like to. Many of the sources I list are in Russian, but you should still be able to examine most of them with Google’s page translation. Please report any broken links and I’ll do my best to fix them. Overall, the blogpost describes how Russia’s disinformation and bot infrastructure came to be. Due to its nature, we may lack crucial information that will come out in later years and if it does, I’ll correct my article. The blogpost isn’t intended to instill some kind of hate against Russians, in fact, if you read through it, you’ll realize that Russian citizens are oppressed and put down by Kremlin’s propaganda infrastructure in a way that people in the West will never be. If you have any feedback, I’ll be happy to hear it out.

David Robert Grimes: Whether the issue is climate change, healthcare or gun control, libertarians are on a permanent collision course with evidence

Alexis Crews (Senior Fellow, Information Integrity) discusses why we need to stop blaming technology for the erosion of democracy.

+ Other ways I have been watching conservativism rise in the last few years through fashion and internet culture

The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.

Turkish clerics on YouTube attract millions of viewers — but perhaps no one is watching them as closely as the Erdoğan government.

The Twitter and tear gas-filled world of Zeynep Tüfekçi