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This article examines and evaluates a variety of factors that characterize the PRC at the end of 2023—including elite politics and Xi Jinping's position; a malaise that grips society; the "securitization" of almost all dimensions of policy; economic challenges and concerns; and the state of the CCP as a ruling Leninist party.

Hawaii News Now (HNN), a news service operated by a consortium of TV stations, reports that in 2022 and 2023, Oahu police arrested almost 300 people for driving under the influence who had breathalyzer scores below the legal limit of 0.08, 69 of them with scores of 0.00. "When I was a policeman, I never…

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association's Black and Race Studies Working Group Co-Host Shauna Rigaud discuss The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (University of Westminster Press, 2023) with authors Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler. This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Richard T. Stafford.

An estimated 171,000 Californians are homeless, making up about 30 percent of all homeless people in the U.S. The state spent $24 billion in fiscal years 2018–2023 on 30 different programs for the homeless. But a state auditor's report found the agency responsible for coordinating the effort to reduce homelessness stopped tracking the programs' spending…

In May 2023, the St. Louis County SWAT team used a battering ram to knock down the door to Brittany Shamily's home in Ferguson, Missouri. Cops detained her and her family while they ransacked the place, searching for evidence related to a carjacking that had happened earlier that day. One of the victims told police…

Six mois après les massacres effroyables du 7 octobre 2023, le conflit à Gaza a fait près de 33 000 victimes innocentes. Si les exactions d'Israël ne sauraient justifier les premiers, celles du Hamas ne sauraient justifier les secondes. Les parties en présence doivent donc se reconnaître mutuellement et œuvrer à une solution politique.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) says it has found that former CBI forensic scientist Yvonne "Missy" Woods manipulated data in the DNA testing process or posted incomplete test results in hundreds of cases. The CBI says it has found 652 cases affected by Woods' work between 2008 and 2023, when she was placed on…

Or, why has the US done so well. Part of it's immigration. From Goldman Sachs "Upgrading Our GDP and Payrolls Forecasts to Reflect Elevated Immigration (Walker)" released yesterday: Recent studies suggest that Census data used for the household survey of the employment report understated immigration in 2023. We estimate that immigration was 1½mn above the […]

Some of you may have heard that the Michigan GOP is in the midst of a power struggle between Kristina Karamo, who won the party chair election in Feb. 2023, and former U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra, who got the RNC to install him in her place her a year later after he won a contested […]

Heute und morgen verhandelt der IGH im Verfahren des einstweiligen Rechtsschutzes über eine Klage Südafrikas, in der gegen Israel aufgrund seiner Reaktionen auf die Anschläge der Hamas vom 7. Oktober 2023 der besonders schwere Vorwurf des Völkermords an Palästinenserinnen und Palästinensern erhoben wird. Die prozessuale Beteiligung der Bundesregierung an zwei weiteren Verfahren wegen Völkermords sowie weitere, nachfolgend zu erläuternde Gründe sprechen dafür, für das Hauptsacheverfahren zwischen Südafrika und Israel ebenfalls eine Nebenintervention zu erklären – hier allerdings mit dem Ziel, Israel beizustehen und der südafrikanischen Argumentation entgegenzutreten.

The organizer's introductory article describes the scientific event run on May 18, 2023 at the Institute of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University — the Round Table "Discursive Semiotics: the Production of Meanings". The article detailes agenda, the composition of the participants, as well as the main directions of the scientific discussion are presented.

From yesterday's order by Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel (S.D. Ill.) in Robe Probe v. McGehee: Two amorphous plaintiffs, Robe Probe John Doe, initiated this action on October 2, 2023, against various personnel of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois along with Judge John McGehee. {In the Complaint, Robe Probe (also called Judicial Felons Watch)…

From Thursday's decision by Judge Randolph Moss (D.D.C.) in U.S. v. Sterlingov, which holds that defendant Roman Sterlingov should be barred from "personally reviewing" "the sensitive, supplemental heuristic information that was created by the government's expert (for the benefit of the defense) and provided to the defense in September 2023," which is to say that…

In November 2023, the Bridge Initiative released a new report into the nature and presence of Hindu nationalism in the UK. Speaking to a country absorbed in conversation around multiculturalism and religious tensions, Chris Allen outlines what we can learn from Leicester and the rest of this report. A year on from the disturbances that … Continued