As gas reaches stratospheric prices and the cost of living continues to climb, war seems to be on everyone’s mind these days. What better time, then, to be joined by Lawrence
Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, to discuss his brand new book, The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, [...]
Most coverage of President Donald Trump’s June 2 Executive Order on AI frames it as a reversal of his deregulatory stance, or as Trump quietly borrowing from Biden. Both
interpretations miss the significance of what’s actually there. [...]
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported this week that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth personally removed up to nine officers—including three women and two
Black men—from the Navy’s list of officers selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half). [...]
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Sustainability is among the most contested topics in contemporary debates around AI. While the industry’s meteoric growth has sparked growing public concern about its environmental
impacts, Big Tech companies have gone to great lengths to portray AI as not just sustainable but positively good for the environment. [...]
Unter dem Titel „Repräsentationen und Re-Präsentationen von Sexarbeit“ soll der erste inter- und transdisziplinäre Band der Schriftenreihe aus den „Studien zu Sexarbeit
und Repräsentation“ erscheinen. Der Call deckt ein breites Spektrum an Themen ab, die das Repräsentationsgeschehen mit Blick auf Sexarbeit erforschbar machen [...]
Am 15. April 2026 hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) zum dritten Mal eine Grundsatzentscheidung zum Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz (AsylbLG) getroffen. Anders als in den
Entscheidungen in den Jahren zuvor (2012 und 2022), in denen das BVerfG die Regelungen für verfassungswidrig erklärt hatte, beanstandete es die vielfach kritisierten [...]
