A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.

Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed at the crucial local and state levels, but it can be rebuilt and turned into a progressive force. That would mean reviving the New Deal legacy and moving well beyond, instead of abandoning, the working class and turning into Clintonite New Democrats, which more or less resemble what used to be called moderate Republicans, a category that has largely disappeared with the shift of both parties to the right during the neoliberal period.

Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.