Travis Gilly, Real Safety AI Foundation, has published The Corporate Villainy of Tom Sawyer: Manufactured Scarcity, the Ethics of Attention, and the Literary Prehistory of
Dark Patterns. Here is the abstract. [...]
Travis Gilly, Real Safety AI Foundation, has published The Corporate Villainy of Tom Sawyer: Manufactured Scarcity, the Ethics of Attention, and the Literary Prehistory of
Dark Patterns. Here is the abstract. [...]
Not long after beginning his second term in office, President Donald Trump addressed leaders in the Department of Justice: “So now as the chief law enforcement officer in
our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.” [...]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plans to involuntarily mobilize military lawyers for duty as immigration judges and to serve as government counsel in cases involving
detained migrant children, according to Bloomberg. The Department of Defense is first seeking volunteers, but if too few people step forward, Hegseth has authorized [...]
Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated guide to major news and developments over the weekend. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR The United States
intensified its strikes on Iran overnight, hitting targets around Tehran and other areas in northern Iran, Iranian state media said. [...]
Can the EU harmonise a consent-based definition of rape under Article 83 TFEU? This post revisits the constitutional debate behind the 2024 Directive and argues that the competence
objection is less convincing than commonly assumed. [...]
Am 27. Mai 2026 berichtet Politico darüber, dass die Europäische Behörde für Politische Parteien und Stiftungen (Authority for European Political Parties and European Political
Foundations, APPF, im Folgenden nur „Behörde“) einen Bericht an Vertreter der Kommission und des Rates übermittelte, wonach sie ernsthafte Zweifel daran habe, [...]
Australia is a country highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, with the weathered, arid continent frequently buffeted by fires, floods, heatwaves and storms. It
is also one of the largest exporters globally of fossil fuels, coal and gas. Situated close to Pacific Islands existentially threatened by climate-fuelled rising [...]
On June 11, 2026, the German automotive company Volkswagen (VW) was convicted in four different lawsuits by the Brazilian Labor Court for reducing people to slavery in the
Brazilian Amazon. While this judgment marks the company’s second round of convictions for enslavement within the Amazonian state of Pará, it stands out as a historic [...]
[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2009. Updated 16 July 2026] JANES, the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, was founded in 1968 at Columbia University, and has
been housed at the Jewish Theological Seminary since 1982. Over these approximately forty years 30 volumes have been published under the editorship of former JTS [...]