where science and ethics intersect with politics
When headlines remove the actor from the sentence, harm begins to look like an accident rather than a choice. This installment of Language, Examined explores how passive phrasing and abstract language quietly erase responsibility—and why that matters.
When armed Black Panther–affiliated groups appeared at recent anti-ICE protests, much of the media fixated on optics: uniforms, firearms, symbolism. But the real story isn’t the presence of Panthers — it’s the conditions that make communities feel safer beside armed civilians than beneath federal authority. History is clear on this point: when the state loses legitimacy through unchecked force, people do not retreat. They organize. The question we should be asking isn’t who showed up, but why they felt they had to.
The Epstein disclosures are not a celebrity scandal — they are a structural indictment. The real story isn’t the names released, but the institutions that protected them.
Explore how the Humane Party’s ethical vision reimagines the Seventh Amendment—America’s forgotten promise of justice by the people.
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