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How China Accidentally Broke The West’s Monopoly Over The Weapons Trade
Wednesday, 4 November 2026, 3:09 pm | Independent Media Institute
While the US has strengthened its position in conventional arms exports in recent years, China is quietly and indirectly undermining Washington’s dominance. More >>
Boiling Point: The Road To War And Ukraine’s Uncertain Future
Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 5:29 pm | Independent Media Institute
In his new book, Boiling Point, journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer traces decades of US involvement in Ukraine, which helped start one of the deadliest and most consequential conflicts in the 21st century. More >>
Can We Reverse Out-of-Control Campaign Spending?
Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 5:25 pm | Independent Media Institute
Every election, wealthy elites spend record-breaking amounts of money to influence outcomes. What can be done to stop it? More >>
Who Cares For The People Who Care For Children? Reimagining The Adults Closest To Every Child
Thursday, 29 October 2026, 10:48 am | Independent Media Institute
Communities can better protect children by supporting teachers, caregivers, and other trusted adults—and helping them work together. More >>
Ancient DNA In The Neanderthal Mirror
Tuesday, 27 October 2026, 11:47 am | Independent Media Institute
The Neanderthals were absorbed and dissolved slowly, within an asymmetric cultural order by patterns of interbreeding we can barely glimpse in ancient genomes. Their genetic variants survived; their distinctiveness did not. More >>
Puerto Rican Communities Bear The Brunt Of The Water Crisis
Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 6:20 pm | Independent Media Institute
The archipelago’s current water crisis, the product of a colonial system of debt, austerity, and extraction, cannot be solved by community organizing alone. More >>
How Non-State Alliances Are Reshaping The Global Order
Saturday, 17 October 2026, 5:32 am | Independent Media Institute
From the Houthis to Mexican cartels, autonomous non-state groups are reacting to the changing global order by building their own international networks. Efforts to contain them are complicated due to growing cooperation with private-sector interests. More >>
How Gen Z Protests Are Reshaping Politics In Asia
Tuesday, 13 October 2026, 8:25 pm | Independent Media Institute
Youth-led protests have forced concessions in India and changed governments in Nepal and Bangladesh. Can those victories produce lasting political reform? More >>
Material Insecurity And The Foundations Of Democratic Participation
Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 9:40 am | Independent Media Institute
Democratic participation depends on more than voting rights: people also need material security, practical knowledge, social belonging, and a sense of agency that human ecology education can help cultivate. More >>
AI’s Apparent Danger Is Its Selling Point
Monday, 28 September 2026, 4:42 am | Independent Media Institute
Constant warnings from AI companies serve as both a marketing tool and a consolidation strategy. As major companies manage stock prices and upcoming IPOs, the benefits of portraying the tech as powerful & dangerous are becoming clear. More >>
What Are Prediction Markets—and Can They Really Predict The Future?
Thursday, 24 September 2026, 6:33 pm | Independent Media Institute
Prediction markets allow people to trade on the outcomes of real-world events. Supporters see them as powerful forecasting tools, while critics warn they can encourage speculation, manipulation, and the financialization of uncertainty. More >>
Can Decentralized Energy Prevent The Next Crisis?
Saturday, 5 September 2026, 1:38 pm | Independent Media Institute
As electrification expands and power systems face growing insecurity, struggling countries and territories are turning to decentralized energy out of necessity. More >>
How The US Is Driving The Rise Of The Businessmen-Politician
Monday, 31 August 2026, 4:25 am | Independent Media Institute
The ultrawealthy have always influenced politics, but the Trump administration has brought them directly into policymaking. The phenomenon is already global, creating new channels of influence within and between states. More >>
Zuckerberg May Finally Pay A Price For Preying On Our Children
Wednesday, 26 August 2026, 9:50 am | Independent Media Institute
Massive state and federal lawsuits take Meta to task over widespread harm to children. More >>
Is Türkiye’s Megalithic Archaeological Site Göbeklitepe A Temple?
Sunday, 16 August 2026, 3:51 am | Independent Media Institute
Göbeklitepe’s significance lies not in proving that religion built civilization, but in showing how material cooperation, symbolic life and social memory became embodied in permanent architecture. More >>
Morocco Shows How Migration Has Become Weaponized
Sunday, 16 August 2026, 3:21 am | Independent Media Institute
Morocco’s pressure on Spain is the latest example of a growing form of political coercion Europe is particularly exposed to. More >>
Reading Ancient Signals In A Modern World
Friday, 7 August 2026, 2:39 pm | Independent Media Institute
he desire to stylize a mark is older than writing itself, and the typefaces of today shape what we remember, feel, and trust whenever we read. More >>
India’s Gen Z Flexed Its Power—And Won
Tuesday, 4 August 2026, 4:57 pm | Independent Media Institute
A nascent movement of young people, angry over a broken educational system, took on the ruling BJP government and forced the education minister to resign. More >>
Vicious Cycles: Autocracy, Inequality, And The Funding Of Government
Tuesday, 4 August 2026, 3:10 pm | Independent Media Institute
If there is a consistent message from the archaeological and historical records, it is that the distribution of power and wealth is intimately linked. And both are profoundly influenced by the ways governments finance themselves. More >>
A Brief History Of How Countries Sleepwalk Into War
Friday, 31 July 2026, 6:30 pm | Independent Media Institute
From the Civil War and World War I to the ongoing conflict in Iran, America’s and other nations’ expectations of war have repeatedly been challenged by the realities that emerge once fighting begins. More >>
