ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Abstract The United States, and more broadly, the West, is prone to be surprised. We are surprised by China’s pursuit of hegemony through economic and military means; by Russia’s engaging in the largest conventional war in Europe since 1945; by the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. We think that economic sanctions will fundamentally alter …
Renowned experts on national security and the defense budget share ideas, perspectives, and solutions for budget reform to ensure its adequacy and flexibility for the current complex geopolitical environment. America is facing the most dangerous and complex geopolitical environment since World War II. Ensuring the adequacy and flexibility of our defense budget is essential to …
Sequestration and chronic underfunding have opened a yawning gap in American strength and readiness. President Biden has again proposed a vastly inadequate Defense Department budget. His proposal for 2025 is a mere 1% increase from this year’s agreed level. Adjusted for inflation, it’s about $140 billion below the 2010 budget that many analysts, including these …
Chaos Theory conjures up images of nature gone haywire, with all sense of order cast aside. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are now beginning to glimpse. In his continued exploration of the laws of nature, Jim Al-Khalili, the host of “Everything and Nothing,” shows that Chaos Theory …
In a year when citizens will cast their votes in elections across the world we’re turning our attention to the art and science of democracy and decision-making. Democratic societies rely on fact-based world views and science, but also on narratives that can bring together large, diverse communities. At a time when democracies are straining to …
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Watch Yuval Noah Harari’s presentation and panel discussions at an evening hosted by the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and King’s College, University of Cambridge. Introduced by CSER co-founder Martin Rees, Harari’s presentation focuses on today’s most urgent global challenges. It is followed by a panel discussion with Matthew Connelly, CSER’s …
The defense of those destroying democracy is that they are doing it to prevent others from doing what they would do, should they have been on the receiving end of exactly what they are now doing. Joe Biden has claimed that his opponents are assaulting democracy on the basis of the January 6, 2021, buffoonish …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California school district sued by the state has updated its policy requiring staff to notify parents that a student is using a different pronoun or bathroom designated for another gender and now will only mention that a child has requested a change to their student records. The Chino Valley …
Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, joins Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, and Nobel Prize laureates Ben Feringa and Paul Nurse in a panel discussion exploring the significant implications of AI on science, society and democracy, acknowledging both its positive and negative effects. Interviewed by Maria Leptin. In …