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The WHO and Bloomberg-funded anti–tobacco harm reduction (THR) campaigns impose Western ideologies that ignore local socioeconomic and cultural realities—echoing a modern form of colonial paternalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than in India, home to one of the world’s largest populations of tobacco users. As a medical professional, I’ve seen firsthand the devastating effects of […]

The Israeli attacks on Iran have raised serious questions about the effectiveness of Iranian defense systems. These attacks raise the need to reassess the role of militias in Iran’s defense doctrine. Until October 7, 2023, Iran’s defense strategy was to target Israel in the event of an Israeli attack through Hezbollah’s swarms of kamikaze vehicles […]

Child sexual abuse material, known as CSAM, refers to visual depictions of sexual violence against children. But what if the child involved is not real? Would that make it all right? With the rise of artificial intelligence, discussions surrounding AI-generated CSAM are spreading in the media and amongst decision-makers globally. New laws are being introduced, trying to keep up with […]

In Los Angeles, they came at night, black helmets, tactical gear, no names, no insignia. Protesters were seized and loaded into unmarked vans. No one knew who they were. No one could ask. Their faces were hidden. Their power, absolute. We are entering an era in which the agents of state power no longer have […]

Say what you will about President Trump, but it’s hard to suggest that his business acumen is in any way lacking. His return to office and the negotiations that have taken place throughout his first few months back have been directly derived from the business philosophies he outlined nearly three decades ago in the “Art […]

Climate change has been a constant presence in my life. I was born in 2009; I am sixteen years old and have never known the normal that my parents speak of. During the years my family lived in Japan, it snowed less and less every winter. When I was ten, we moved to California, where […]

Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary victory has sparked an Islamophobic backlash in the United States, a country that seems to be moving rapidly toward becoming a theocracy with increasing religious intolerance for anything other than Evangelical Christianity. When Mamdani won, some pundits and politicians argued that his faith wouldn’t be a spiritual practice but a political ideology, that […]

‘A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition.’ Jacques Derrida, Dissemination ‘It is possible,” says the gatekeeper, “but not now.’ Franz Kafka, Before the Law Polysemy (noun) – the coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase. Oxford Languages I would like […]

They are watching our families fight for survival—and choosing to cut us down with no remorse. Medicaid, SNAP, and public education are under siege, and the communities most affected—Black, brown, disabled, and low-income families—are already carrying the heaviest burdens.These aren’t policy shifts. They are aggressive violent acts against the people lawmakers claim to represent and […]

Shortly before the June 5 I.C.E. raids in the Los Angeles Fashion District and arrest of 45 workers, President Donald J. Trump explained that when he speaks about his goals to move more manufacturing to the USA, “We’re not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts.” His remarks reflect the reality that, according to theAmerican Apparel and Footwear Association this year, […]