#Debate

I'll soon be speaking on the floor about our America's endless war. Watch here: https://www.c-span.org/congress/?chamber=senate Today, the subject is war powers. The hawks and neocons somehow want you to believe,
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Beate Sirota Gordon did indeed put women's rights into Japan's constitution, but what this article does not teach you is that (mis)interpretations of Article 24 are also used as an
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I am going to do something that is dumb and try to add nuance to a twitter debate. This is surely going to fail but hey it's been a hell
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I love the idea that licence-fee payers want a more neutral (read: cowed) BBC. No. We want our government held to account. We know individuals have preferences. We can live
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For the Shias saying we should unite with the Shirazis as they're our Shia brothers rather than uniting with the Sunni brothers. I tell them uniting with the Shirazi clan
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At risk of being cancelled, I admit whole-scale student debt forgiveness doesn’t make perfect sense to me.I believe in free housing, food, healthcare, and education. Public colleges should be free
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The club's condemnation of these players is justified. Covid cases are rising sharply across the continent, the country's medical services are under immense strain. The country has entered it's second
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What caused the big Baby Boom of 46-63? The explanations most often given are economic, but the fundamental cause seems to be contraceptive failure: married couples didn't actually want families
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The Ch Sanghis are just plain lying, that too in English. I have been traveling to China, France, Germany, Nordics for last 20 years and in ALL of them find
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I've been thinking about the reaction of the woke left to a number of groups formed in Ireland to challenge the excesses of the left's drift into authoritarianism and their
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The left appealed to liberalism in order to take control of culture and politics. Free speech, free exchange of ideas, decide for yourself, etc. But now that they’re in control,
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Who caused Hard Brexit? Some thoughts from the perspective of a social scientist. In the last few days we have seen an interminable debate on whether Remainers, Soft Brexiters, or
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THREAD: Why is Mitch McConnell holding up $2,000 checks that people desperately need? Because he also thinks the government should regulate the internet & investigate phantom voter fraud allegations, and
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A short thread:Criticism is: You’re wrong and here’s why. Cancellation is: You can’t say that and I’m going to try and get you fired or considered a moral monster for
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"If you bought out a car, which turned out to be dangerous- you wouldn't be expected to take out a loan worth tens of thousands of pounds to pay to
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The 2008 prorogation stirred an interesting academic debate: can a Governor General refuse a Prime Minister’s advice to prorogue? On the ‘no discretion’ to refuse, we had MacDonald and @JWJBowden,
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