Diffcult things that make me ponder

The Corporate Transparency Act was passed into law by Congress in the final days of President Donald Trump’s first term, under the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. But the second Trump administration has been marked by rule changes and court challenges that have undermined the landmark reform.

Five years after ICIJ’s FinCEN Files investigation exposed the pivotal role the U.S. financial system plays in global dirty money flows, authorities are winding back landmark reforms pushed through in the wake of the revelations, prompting widespread concerns from transparency advocates.

Wildlife scientists aboard Australia's icebreaker believe a deadly strain of bird flu has reached the sub-Antarctic Heard Island after they witnessed unusual levels of mortality in elephant seals.

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946. October 17, 1946 D’Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to... See more

Tyranny is like a disease—when you ignore it, it spreads beyond borders. Dictators form alliances, learn from one another, and threaten global peace. Repression grows to war. But courage is also contagious. Freedom wins when democracies unite—and act before it’s too late.... See more

The opinion is significant, legal experts said, because it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review. Historically, those involved in drug trafficking were considered criminals with due process... See more

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.

one of the crises of democracy stems from the fact that, here too, we have created systems that have become more sophisticated over time, but which have become too slow or too incomplete to respond to the challenges of the times

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to [American and Chinese] social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.