Category: Politics
Autonomy in the Age of Algorithms
by Katharine Dempsey | May 9, 2018 | Politics, TechnologyWe have arrived at the watershed moment when artificial intelligence is finally at the center of the mainstream conversation. This owes less to the almost obligatory speculation about the role and impact of robots in the workplace and more, now, to AI’s relationship with data, the power of ubiquitous and increasingly sophisticated algorithms, and the […]
Sex Crimes and Criminal Justice
by Barbara Koeppel | May 4, 2018 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsResponding to several highly publicized sex crimes and public fears, legislatures across the country have adopted statutes that allow the continued imprisonment of sex offenders after they have completed their sentences. Veteran investigative reporter Barbara Koeppel has spent the past 12 months reporting on this third rail of the criminal justice system. Here are her […]
Talks with North Korea At Risk from US Policy Hawks
by Robert Alvarez | May 1, 2018 | Foreign PolicyIf you are hopeful that the pending talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, (should they indeed take place) will bring a timely end to the nearly 68-year-long Korean War, don’t bet on it. The 1953 armistice, which was struck by military leaders of North Korea, the United States, South […]
Trump Faces Obstacles to a Korean Deal, Some Self-Inflicted
by Robert Alvarez | Apr 23, 2018 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsThe following article, which appears in print in the May issue of the Washington Spectator, has been updated for online publication to reflect recent developments in the negotiations underway with North Korea. If you are hopeful that the pending talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will bring an imminent end to the nearly […]
On John Ridley’s American Crime and the #MeToo Movement
by Cyrus Cassells | Apr 17, 2018 | Culture, Media, PoliticsThe more I’ve been following the #MeToo movement, with its dismaying, even shocking revelations about the ubiquity of harassment, sexual coercion in the workplace, and even rape, the more I’ve been longing to revisit the incredibly pertinent second season of ABC’s American Crime. The show focuses, with unremitting power, on the alleged sexual assault of […]