Policy Issues

  • Russian Roulette: The Information War Americans Keep Losing

    Russian Roulette: The Information War Americans Keep Losing

    Photo from Misha Friedman / Getty. It is rather embarrassing that President Trump isn’t an agent of Russian intelligence. In March 2019, the Department of Justice concluded that there was no proof beyond a reasonable doubt of any sort of conspiratory agreement made between Trump and the Kremlin.  This conclusion was reached amidst evidence of…

  • God Forbid Women Have Sex: The Repression of Sexual Freedom

    God Forbid Women Have Sex: The Repression of Sexual Freedom

    Photo by Jose Luis Magana/AP. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) page for Sexual Health Education daunts the following message: “The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology due to the harms and divisiveness it causes. This page does not reflect reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.”   The rhetoric employed by…

Legal Issues

  • AI and Copyright: Why the Artist Exodus Should Worry Us

    AI and Copyright: Why the Artist Exodus Should Worry Us

    Photo from Electronic Frontier Foundation. What do platforms like Spotify, X, and Instagram have in common? One, they are all platforms for artists around the globe. Two, they are currently experiencing an artist exodus.  Artists have increasingly relied on these platforms to promote their work, resulting in a “platformization” of the creative industry and the…