Category: This, that and the other

The concept of “erasure” in the context of Black populations in the Americas refers to processes—demographic, cultural, narrative, and institutional—that diminish the visible presence, historical contributions, genetic legacy, or contemporary recognition of people of African descent. In South America, as detailed in Lawson Akhigbe’s article “The Erased Majority,” erasure often manifests through deliberate demographic engineering …

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Family separation here refers primarily to the forcible or policy-driven splitting of parents/guardians from minor children during border processing, detention, or deportation proceedings. It does not include natural separations from conflict, voluntary migration, or standard child welfare removals (though overlaps exist). Globally, no major democracy has replicated the U.S. scale of systematic, deterrent-driven separations of …

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🌍 Geopolitics & Grand Delusions How to simultaneously declare total victory, admit partial defeat, threaten a country into talks, threaten it out of talks, and still somehow call it a strategy — all before lunch. There is an old Persian proverb — and given that this article is about Iran, it seems appropriate to start …

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You have been wronged. Someone has cheated you, threatened you, or done something that makes your blood boil. You want justice, swift, visible, and humiliating for the other party. So you do what feels natural. You go to the police station. This is where the education begins. The Welcome The officer at the counter greets …

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