Archive - Flux

How corporations took over the federal courts

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on how ‘corporatocracy’ works and why

Jul 22 • Matthew Sheffield

1:03:16

Renewed ICE killings are inevitable result of mass deportations rooted in incendiary claims of immigrant invasion

Democrats must pair opposition to ICE lawlessness with unsparing attacks on the GOP's dehumanizing anti-immigrant hatred and propaganda

Jul 20 • Jim Carroll

Trump’s insane elections speech was really about excusing future authoritarianism

Bizarre primetime address presented no evidence, but did lay groundwork for censorship and infringing on states’ rights to administer elections

Jul 17

Do bees have inner lives? New study suggests it’s a possibility

Research shows that bees seem to manifest internal states of pleasure and disgust

Jul 16

Liberals want Trump gone, but what do they want instead?

Adam Gurri, founder and publisher of Liberal Currents joins to discuss ‘The Reconstruction Papers’

Jul 14 • Matthew Sheffield and Adam Gurri

1:16:41

Trump's inept attempts to ‘fix’ Reflecting Pool only highlight his authoritarian fixations

The president's plan to spruce up a tourist attraction has mutated into self-serving claims of anti-American vandalism in the heart of D.C. and…

Jul 13 • Jim Carroll

Why have Texas Republicans become so obsessed with meat?

Ken Paxton is part of a national trend of Republicans politicizing meat. Yes, really.

Jul 10

How Jeffrey Epstein did it

Greg Olear on the life and crimes of the deceased billionaire

Jul 7 • Matthew Sheffield and Greg Olear

58:25

The myth of mind uploading

Minds are what bodies do

Jul 5 • Johannes Jaeger

Separation of church and state is an all-American idea

Freedom of conscience works for everyone—religious as well as non-religious

Jul 3

Welcome swag for white South African ‘refugees’ reveals blatant racism of Trump’s asylum policy

The Trump administration plans to provide bespoke gift bags to Afrikaners, including materials that encourage an embrace of white supremacy as the ideal…

Jul 1 • Jim Carroll

June 2026

No one thinks Midjourney is alive, that's a big problem for people who think that Claude is

Artificial intelligence and the textual nude

Jun 30 • Matthew Sheffield

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