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- Written by: Alex Dupcheck
The newest fad in political branding is “abundance,” a feel-good label that promises limitless prosperity while quietly resurrecting old deregulatory attacks on environmental safeguards. Truthout’s warning that an “abundance” lobby uses fashionable words to cloak the same extractive agenda should ring loud in every legislature and newsroom [5]. The test for democracies, especially in a year of climate shocks, is whether rhetoric can be separated from results: can we expand opportunity without razing the ecological foundations it rests upon? That requires more than slogans—it demands public investment in real innovation, rigorous oversight of public-private partnerships, and policies that distribute the gains of technology equitably rather than concentrating them among those who already hold power.
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- Written by: Valenenzia Gruelle
The week began with a simple, unassailable truth returning to headlines: teachers are the key to students’ AI literacy—and they need support to do the job well [1]. In a season of breathless product launches and policy whiplash, that reminder is less a slogan than a societal checkpoint. If we want classrooms to be where democratic competence with intelligent tools is cultivated rather than corroded, we must equip the educators who steward them. Everything else is vapor.
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- Written by: Anne Wienbloch
New trailers for The Ugly — a Korean thriller from the director of Train to Busan — have arrived, and they lean hard into the film’s preoccupation with memory [3][2]. Trailers are never neutral; they are cultural instruments that prime expectations, anxieties, and, crucially, policy instincts. In a season when institutions are quick to add warnings or gates, the arrival of a memory-obsessed thriller invites a familiar question with fresh stakes: when do we protect audiences, and when do we slip into policing their imaginations? The conversation is bigger than one film, but The Ugly gives us a sharp lens: if memory is fragile and constructed, then attempts to shield us can accidentally sand it down — and that, too, is a form of forgetting [2].
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- Written by: Bob Fratenni
American Samoa has said no to deep-sea mining, but the Trump administration might do it anyway—a collision of local consent and imperial habit that lays bare how modern extractive appetites treat oceans as sacrifice zones [2]. The Pacific’s once-united front on climate action is itself splintering over deep-sea mining, signaling a political riptide that powerful actors are eager to ride [1][5]. Meanwhile, new deep-ocean facilities and feasibility studies elsewhere feed a narrative of inevitability: dig because we can, and because someone else will if we don’t [3][6]. When a river turns toxic, it is a mirror held up to our consumption habits; the seabed is simply the next mirror, darker and deeper. The question now is whether outrage can harden into regulation and restorative justice before silence descends on ecosystems we barely understand.
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