Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

As governments panic over declining birthrates, Nandita Bajaj challenges the alarmism driving coercive pronatalist policies. From financial incentives to nationalist agendas, such efforts not only fail to raise fertility but also undermine reproductive freedom and deepen inequality. Drawing on global evidence, the article argues that falling birthrates are a result of increased agency among women—not…

Joe Kent’s resignation from Trump’s national security apparatus signals more than a personal break—it exposes deep fractures within the war consensus itself. A loyal insider, not an outsider critic, Kent denounces the Iran war as built on deception, alleging manufactured threats and external pressure. His blunt language and timing suggest that dissent is surfacing unusually…

A new generation of Cuban-Americans is challenging the narrative long dominated by hardline politicians like Marco Rubio. In this personal and political reflection, Justine Medina highlights the diversity of opinions within Cuban-American families and the growing movement demanding an end to the U.S. embargo and hostile policies toward Cuba. Through the newly launched Cuban Americans…

A brief note as the war winds down/intensifies/God knows

Billionaire investors are intent on selling Artificial Intelligence into public schools. This is a bad idea that will add to the environmental degradation associated with water and energy hogging data centers.

Veterans For Peace issues a scathing condemnation of the U.S.–Israeli attack on Iran, calling it an illegal war of aggression built on deception and double standards. Drawing parallels with past catastrophic wars, the statement challenges official narratives, highlights violations of international and constitutional law, and warns of escalating global instability. It urges military personnel to…

Almost Everywhere, I notice Artificial Intelligence. After A.I.s from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google kept recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said his company would not help the U.S. surveil unwitting civilians or deploy killer drones. In response, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said contractors don’t get to tell the government how…

So in plain language, here is the actual claim: “We have no choice but to meet all electricity demands and doing so via renewable energy increases greenhouse gas emissions by a lesser amount than fossil fuels.” Now that we have clarity on the actual claim, we can break it down. The reality is this: 1)…

The Guatemalan government announced the termination of the medical collaboration agreement with Cuba under which Cuban health professionals worked in remote and impoverished areas of the country since 1998.

The world trembled as Bad Bunny marched onto the field at the Super Bowl, in front of millions of spectators, with flags from every country in the Americas, in a performance that, while a kick to imperialism, will only find dry dust in liberal enthusiasm. While the Puerto Rican singer fired off in Spanish, across…