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Nov 4, 2024 | 
recorder.com | Aaron Falbel |David Goodwin |Laura Williams |Meg Fisher-Krugman
This March 18, 2003 file photo shows the Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, Conn. As we write this, the commonwealth’s climate and clean energy bill is struggling to obtain the votes to pass in informal sessions after having stalled during the regular legislative session.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aier.org | Laura Williams
When it comes to designing digital currencies that protect the identity and transactions data of their users, developers have made a lot of progress in a relatively short period of time. It is technically feasible to design a retail central bank digital currency — or, CBDC — that promotes financial privacy. But one must also consider what is politically feasible. Unfortunately, there is little prospect that the United States government would actually adopt a privacy-protecting CBDC.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
aier.org | Laura Williams
Millions of American homeowners would love to move — if they could pack up the mortgage interest rate they locked in at under four percent. “We hate the area we moved to but cannot justify moving again due to mortgage rates,” says Ben Young, who bought in 2021 at a 2.25 mortgage interest rate. The post-COVID rate crater saw millions of mortgages written or refinanced at historically low interest rates.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
aier.org | Laura Williams
AIER >> No items found Recently on Facebook, an attractive young woman – or so I judge from the picture accompanying her message – asked me to accept her as a Facebook friend. She assures me that she’s positively enthralled with the messages that I regularly post at that social-media site. And so she really, really wants to get to know me better.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
aier.org | Laura Williams
In 2018, 1,200 Yale undergraduates crowded into one of the University’s largest venues, Battell Chapel, ready to listen and learn. But the students sitting in the glow of the chapel’s stained-glass windows, who comprised almost a quarter of Yale’s undergraduate population, were not there for a church service.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
aier.org | Laura Williams
Nearly ten years ago, I wrote what I thought was a provocative essay about polygamy and the state. Specifically, I claimed that the state acts like a polygamist, enforcing a cruel and explicitly patriarchal regime on single mothers. Perversely, the justification for this repressive regime is compassion, even “social justice.” One of the most corrosive aspects of patriarchy is that it treats women as objects, rather than active moral agents in their own right.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
amnesty.org.au | Laura Williams
14 August 2024The Northern Territory (NT) election is in 10 days. Amnesty’s Indigenous Justice team is there on Warramungu Country, where First Nations kids, as young as 12, currently make up nearly 100% of the incarcerated youth population. In just a few weeks time, Territorians will have a chance to use their vote to demand a system that has better outcomes for everyone. On August 24, voters are deciding who will become the 25 members of the legislative assembly (MLAs).
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
amnesty.org.au | Laura Williams
14 August 2024We’re a truly people powered movement of 10 million people across 150 countries and territories who come together to challenge injustice. Together, in the last six months, we’ve celebrated more than 39 human rights wins across the globe. Here in Australia, you have continued to campaign for Indigenous justice, support people seeking safety to rebuild their lives, and respond to crises, whenever and wherever they occur.
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May 20, 2024 | 
aier.org | Laura Williams
In 1788, George Washington wrote letters to the Marquis de Lafayette during the process of ratifying the proposed Constitution by the states. Washington made clear to General Lafayette the essentials to prevent the new American republic from devolving into “despotic or oppressive form”: limited delegated powers to the government, checks and balances, and “virtue in the body of the People.” Often “virtue in the body of the People” is overlooked.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
aier.org | Laura Williams
Young people sometimes seem to wake up in the morning in search of something to be outraged about. We are among the wealthiest and most educated humans in history. But we’re increasingly convinced that we’re worse off than our parents were, that the planet is in crisis, and that it’s probably not worth having kids.
