How can we provide an ideal society with gender equality instead of slipping into extreme liberal individualism or collective… — Note: This article is authored by writer Hou Qijiang in Chinese on the website Theinitium. For those interested in the original article, please consider reading it there and supporting theinitium by subscribing. I am translating this article because I believe more people should have access to it despite the language…

This is not just about Joe Rogan’s controversial show, but his show is a symptom of a greater problem. — Recently, Neil Young, a 76-year-old singer-songwriter who has been active in the Canadian and U.S. …

This riot has revealed the chaos and fragility of American politics once and for all. No one appears to have a sound solution. — A year ago, on January 6, a long-planned riot took place. On that day, the 2020 presidential loser belligerently issued an order to his supporters to launch an attack, likening the reality of his loss to “egregious assault on our democracy” and coercing Vice…

Do the judges really want to see the people mistrust the process so much that they abandon their faith in the rule of law and choose to use… — (Warning: explicit language) Recently, in Lafayette, Louisiana, a burglar broke in next to the home of City Court Judge Michelle Odinet and stole from two parked cars. A neighbor saw the scene and shooed the burglar away. The scene was captured clearly on the Odinet family’s security camera. In addition…

In short, yes, but also not entirely — When British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet in the early 1990s, he had a positive utopian vision of a communication system that would become a central element in the development of the information age in the future. …

How did restrictive zoning laws caused the crisis and how can we fix it — It is well known that adequate housing is a fundamental human right. With the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the right to adequate housing was formally added to the international body of universally applicable and universally accepted human rights law. …

The most popular slogan in 2020 might have become the most toxic one for Democrats in 2021 — In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, which sparked the largest national protest against police brutality in the United States in the 21st century, a slogan began to spread in unison among protesters: “Defund the Police.” According to a June 2020 poll, 72 percent of…

When the laws are poisoned by corporatist influence, who is speaking for those in distress? — To read more about this case, visit https://chevrontoxico.com/ Global warming from greenhouse gas emissions is slowly making society more aware of the fact that humans must stop burning fossil fuels, but getting rid of dependence on oil is an extremely complex and serious process. In addition to changes in lifestyle…

How many people will continue to trust Biden, after he chose to curry favor with immigration hardliners and endanger basic human rights? — Haiti, an island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, does not share a land border with the United States or Mexico. However, citizens of such a country have chosen to flee Haiti in droves in the last decade or so, and have started to migrate or seek asylum in the…