In 2020, I wrote about the Law and Justice government's assault on the judiciary. This is the background you need to understand what is happening in Poland today. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I wrote this 8 years ago and fear we ended up exactly in the wrong place. We have become the enemy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The author said the research illustrated the danger of treating AI as “just a tool”, arguing that viewing AI as an independent mind to collaborate with made it easier to keep track of ideas and reduced risk.
In the ÖFB Cup round of 16, First Vienna will face SK Rapid live today at 6 PM. (translated)
Dark Reading Matter - Thursday Next #8 by Jasper Fforde The final novel in the New York Times bestselling series: Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy ending? The Dark Reading Matter is a theoretical realm that suggests that the observable bookverse can only account for 20 percent of the calculated total readable mass. Out there somewhere, possibly, is a larger and more expansive and unseeable "Dark Bookverse" that contains millions of deleted novels, slush-pile manuscripts, lost poems, forgotten pop culture references, long unheard oral tradition, stories and ideas that were still in people's minds when they died. The Goliath Corporation hopes to exploit the Dark Reading Matter for profit, and Thursday Next is once again pitted against a familiar foe. A visitor named Roger Thatt who purports to be from Fourth Wall Publishing, has some peculiar ideas of his own that require careful thought. Is Thursday and everyone she knows living in a simulation? Was her world created from scratch Last Thursday as Roger supposes, and are the books she reads the only direction in which books can be read? With existential questions the least of her troubles and a family to take care of, Thursday must defeat the Goliath Corporation, ensure that a tear in the fabric of the Bookworld does not suck all literature from hers, and conclude her own series so she can enjoy a comfortable retirement, while dodging the threat of the worse fate imaginable for a story: The Scooby Doo ending.
Perhaps the EU / member state governments could learn something from Serbia and bring some young people / new ideas into its discussions. Because at the moment paranoid populism lite isn't working. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US should stand unequivocally with Ukraine. Few wars in recent history have been so black-and-white: Russia is the guilty party that invaded Ukraine for no good reason. Ukraine is defending its freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/trump-putin/689067/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6add9e6580b6410001316cb1&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawVL0tZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjA #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #Trump
LH Anton Mattle emphasizes in an interview that democracy is not a one-time gift but requires constant active participation and engagement of citizens. (translated)
Yes, but your two big ideas so far have been police and crime commissioners and Brexit. Shall we check on them first?
The president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has defended his right to express himself freely and consistently in a Spain affected by simplistic populisms, reflecting on the ideas of his first book, 'Emergency Lights. Against Populism and Frentism,' which will be published on October 28. #EmilianoGarcíaPage #Populismo #Libros (translated)
The race to replace Ken Paxton as attorney general of Texas is a contest that has way bigger stakes than you might assume from the outside www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
It is one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen. From north to south, progressive voters of all races and backgrounds are coming together with radical ideas, and getting it done. Reducing the working week from 6 days to 5. Banning online betting. Win or lose on Sunday, they've shown a path.
I wrote about a crucial Texas race you might not be paying attention to: who replaces Ken Paxton as Texas AG in one of the most influential such offices in the country, one Paxton has used to persecute whichever groups the GOP happens to be targeting www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The PSOE uses the visit of Argentine President Javier Milei to Madrid as an electoral opportunity, deploying banners that celebrate being left-wing and publishing a video of President Pedro Sánchez defending these ideas in the face of political polarization. #ZurdosYOrgullosos #ZurdasYOrgullosas #PSOE (translated)
Xavier García Albiol, candidate of the PP for Barcelona, has requested suggestions from Junts for the anti-occupation law, acknowledging that they might have good ideas, despite ruling out a confidence agreement between both parties. #LeyAntiocupación #Catalán #Alquiler (translated)
Juho Hirvelä wrote that the Finns Party council group proposed the day before in the Tampere city council to abolish the internationality voucher. According to him, the voucher would support the employment of foreign students over Finnish students with city funds. Hirvelä stated that the only supporter of the proposal among non-Finns Party representatives was Mats Uotila from the National Coalition Party. The Christian Democrats voted blank, while the rest of the council voted in favor of the voucher. Hirvelä described the voucher as a continuation of the arrangement launched last June to support the recruitment of foreigners without proficiency in the Finnish language, which, according to him, the Finns Party council group had also opposed. He demanded that Finnish citizens not be placed last in decision-making in their own country. #Tampere #Perussuomalaiset #Kansainvälisyys (translated)
The author celebrated that, after the victory of democracy, one could live without fear. As examples, he mentioned strolling through Euskadi, sitting on a terrace, traveling by bus, and defending one's own ideas freely. He said that being able to do so was a conquest that he enjoyed. https://t.co/XK5ccp8QoO #Democracia #Libertad #Euskadi #ES #EU (translated)
Last week I wrote about how Texas politicians’ “free speech” campaign has led to a campaign of academic censorship in the state’s universities that exceeds even the McCarthy era (🎁🔗) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Former chairman of the Folketing, Søren Gade, announces his decision to resign from the position. (translated)
Fofana, French footballer of Sevilla: "Extreme right ideas are not good for society. The far right is combated with education. You have to vote. As long as the people have a voice, it will be the way to prevent them from coming to power." (translated)
