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2 Jan 2025 2 minute read 8 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Katherine Alejandra Cross's article, "Bluesky Won't Save Us" critiques Bluesky as an insufficient solution to social media's problems. While Bluesky markets itself as a decentralized, user-driven alternative to Twitter, its reliance on centraliz...
31 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Rider Fleetwood
What happens if Canada becomes the 51st state? President Donald Trump has posted a number of times, offering a 60% tax reduction for Canadians, an inevitable boost in the economy, and military protection in exchange for becoming the 51st state. But s...
27 Dec 2024 3 minute read 2 comments Cje95
Edit: Another one that I have been late to publish but that I think still needs to be published because of the fallout or lack there of due to the consiquences. Working for Congress over the last few years has opened my eyes in so many ways. I have...
24 Dec 2024 4 minute read 2 comments Cje95
This is a couple of days late but I have been traveling and wanted to give everyone an FYI on what was going on. This will likely be the same issue in just a few months (March) as well! In case you haven't seen, within the last few hours, the bipa...
22 Dec 2024 1 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR The article by Thomas Zimmer from The UnPopulist (December 20, 2024) critiques Russell Vought, the incoming Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Donald Trump's administration. Zimmer examines Vought's role in implementing a C...
22 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In a Substack article titled What to Watch For: Free Speech and the Free Press, Radley Balko examines the threats posed by Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies toward press freedoms and free speech. Balko argues that Trump’s disdain for the free...
19 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Mariusz Próchniak and Ryszard Rapacki, in their European Policy Analysis report for the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), examine the economic growth and income convergence of Central and Eastern European (CEE11) countries t...
18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Professor Jesper Stroembaeck, famous for writing about media and democracy in Sweden, recently wrote in the daily progressive Dagens Arena (Today’s Arena) how internal threats to democracy are often led by elected leaders who gradually erode dem...
18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In his article on Verfassungsblog, Steve Peers examines recent rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that strengthen EU citizens' rights to join political parties in member states where they reside. The judgments deemed l...
18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR A recent report from the Centre for European Reform (CER) discusses the European Union's challenges and opportunities in implementing the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Authored by Zach Meyers, the report critiques the EU's complex regul...
