Foreign policy and national security experts say it’s “obviously” a terrible idea, it’s obvious that every day we delay more Ukrainians get massacred. It’s only “obvious” that a NFZ is a terrible idea and only “not credible” people support it if you have an assumption than Ukrainians’ lives (and Syrians…

The UN is chronically dysfunctional, but it can be fixed. Here’s how. The Ukrainian government has called a UNSC meeting about the Russian regime’s further invasion and strategically ambiguous declaration of war. Predictably, the Russian regime representative at the UN will attempt to abuse the P5 veto power, as they…

I love Pope Francis but he’s seriously wrong in this part of his message. Video Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements… Brothers, sisters, dear social poets, 1. Dear social poets This is what I like to call you: social poets. You are…www.vatican.va The problematic part is this paragraph: “I call on powerful countries to stop aggression, blockades and unilateral sanctions against any country anywhere on earth. No to neo-colonialism. Conflicts must be resolved in multilateral fora such as…

This is a set of hunches which I don’t have anything like sufficient evidence for yet to call it a ‘theory’, but it is heading towards precisely enough defined to be testable. I’m putting it here in the hope that people will disagree with me but in interesting ways. …

I am sick and tired of normal media coverage using e.g. AP Style Guide terminology being too polite and too simplistic to explain the necessary factual and legal context to the general public. It’s not really that hard! …

Identifying a potential methodological artefact in Nikolov, Flammini, and Menczer (2021), Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation, and a positive suggestion for how to fix it. (This is not a peer-reviewed review, it’s just my personal opinions at this stage.) Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation | HKS… We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vulnerability to online misinformation by studying…misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu

After this week’s G7 meeting, the EU leaders said in a joint statement that they ‘reject authoritarianism’ — I invite them to actually do that! Together, the European Union and the United States are an anchor for democracy, peace, and security around the world, to peacefully prevent and resolve conflicts…

‘Politics’ essentially is collective information-processing, or collective cognition and behaviour. …

Christmas presents weren’t originally for family and friends, but were for those who really need them, however unfamiliar or far away they are. I have made small donations (25€) to each of these, and I recommend you do too. I’m saying so publicly, unlike St Nicholas and contrary to Matthew…