International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov did not know that he would help save the world. At his…
Can We Learn to Live Together? What social science tells us about building peace
Every year, on September 21, the International Day of Peace invites us to reflect on one of humanity’s most difficult…
Democracy and Judaism
“It is the Jew who most fervently propagates the idea of democratic equality.” Taken out of context, this sentence could…
When Harmful Content Finds You Online
A teenager can be surrounded by family and friends, appear to be doing well, and still be struggling with thoughts…
Excellent AI report from Stanford
The ninth edition of the AI Index Report emphasizes “That gap—between what AI can do and how prepared we are…
Facts trump “narratives”
Tania Head was elected president of the World Trade Center Survivors Network. She had claimed that she worked on the…
As Real as They Are Unjust
There is a silent corporatism within academic institutions which, when broken, unleashes storms. I have experienced it in Spanish universities…
17 Roles in Media Lynchings
The concepts of bystander and upstander have been very relevant to the analysis and efforts to overcome different forms of…