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Check out iHaveNet.com for social and political commentary 127 50 A progressive advocacy group filed a lawsuit on behalf of Michigan voters seeking to bar former U.S. President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 presidential ballot https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/Michigan-Voters-File-Suit-to-Bar-Trump-From-2024-Ballot.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/GOP-Posturing-Will-Push-Latin-America-Into-China-Arms.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT TikTok is an easy scapegoat, but the lack of tech regulation and data protection is the underlying cause of our collective anxiety in the digital age. https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/The-TikTok-Trap.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America -- and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals. https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/The-Identity-Trap.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT https://www.ihavenet.com/Asia/Trilateral-Summit-Expands-Trilateralism-Beyond-North-Korea.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT https://www.ihavenet.com/Asia/Assessing-the-Bolstered-United-States-Vietnam-Relationship.html Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT I've lived and studied poverty most of my life. 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But it can still be closed -- and quickly. https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/We-Still-Have-a-Dream.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT Community-minded nonprofits are rescuing local papers from predatory corporate owners. https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/Good-News-About-the-News.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT Recent events signal the fact that cyber methods will only be used more, and with more consequence, in the future. https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/Cyber-Gunpowder-of-the-Twenty-First-Century.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT https://www.ihavenet.com/Technology/AI-Will-Not-Be-Replacing-Your-Priest-Rabbi-or-Imam-Any-Time-Soon.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT Democrats and Republicans agree that our Democracy is in crisis. 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A health policy scholar argues that the US could learn from Europe's system of measuring drug value and effectiveness. https://www.ihavenet.com/politics/Why-the-US-has-Higher-Drug-Prices_TC.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT Evidence-based policies, whatever their limitations, always stand a better chance of succeeding than ideologically driven policies. Policies born from rigid principles, by contrast, may not be in line with reality at all. https://www.ihavenet.com/World/The-Ideology-Trap_TS.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT The concern with modern technology is that it has the capability of imposing a value system and influencing populations, thus creating an authoritarian environment. https://www.ihavenet.com/World/Technology-and-Tyranny_EIR.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT Without a working theory of cyber deterrence and with the many benefits of cyber exploitation, the major powers will continue to push each other towards major war. https://www.ihavenet.com/World/Cyber-Power-and-The-Return-of-Major-War_EIR.html Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:20:00 GMT Almost one-third of the countries around the world are authoritarian regimes with the trappings of democracy. 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