A community – bystanders, law enforcement, colleagues and family – is likely to deny an atrocity when acknowledging it requires action.
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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change reveals the depth and consequences of Donald Trump’s obsession with fame and power.
Jon Ronson’s Them was published just months before the world changed on September 11 2001. Its portrait of conspiracy theorists and extremists was eerily prescient.
The more Epstein-connected directors a company had, no matter its size, the more likely it was to have governance problems.
Sociologist Art Jipson talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how clamouring for the release of the Epstein files grew on fringe spaces of the internet.
Most Trump supporters remain in his camp, but some independents, young people and Black Americans who voted for the president in 2024 would not do so again in an election do-over.
People have created their own online platforms to probe the millions of Epstein file documents, fostering new conspiracies that link to older ones like QAnon.
This first fully AI podcast produces a coherent-sounding narrative. But coherence is not the same as sense making, and pattern recognition is not interpretation.
MPs were forced to respond, passing legislation which raised the age at which girls could consent to sexual intercourse from 13 to 16.
Trump has been looking for opportunities to lash out at Starmer over Iran. This may be his latest.
Online sleuths are on a mission to decode the massive Epstein file dump. The resulting chaos shows there’s a fine line between genuine clues and conspiracy.
Despite repeated calls for the university to revoke his tenure, the economist held onto his teaching and academic appointments until he chose to retire.
The Epstein files, where the global elite are talking to each other in private — or so they thought — open a peephole into their twisted world of gifts and favours.
The Epstein case points beyond an individual scandal to a broader system of elites in which capital, insularity, and impunity underpin male domination.
Mandelson was arrested Monday night on suspicion of misconduct in public office, and released on bail Tuesday morning.
Gisèle Pelicot’s compelling personal tale is very different from her daughter’s, reflecting their contrasting ways of surviving trauma.
A small portion of university research funding comes from individual donors. Most universities have policies in place to protect against wrongdoing.
The royal family has crossed paths with the law before, but not for a very long time. And back then, it brought down the monarchy.
Overall, the former prince’s arrest throws into stark relief the state of the rule of law in the US compared to other democracies like the UK.
Violence is interpreted through a double standard when it comes to trans people and cis men, allowing masculinity as a structural driver to remain unexamined.
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