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Commentary

Militarism for Show

September 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Pete Hegseth likes to watch.

The president’s and the defense secretary’s campaign-like pair of bombastic speeches to hundreds of generals summoned to Quantico, Va., signals an escalation in the administration’s embrace of a militaristic mindset that, as long ago as 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address, and that the nation’s founders deliberately aimed to constrain.

Charlie Kirk, AI-Generated Martyr

September 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk outside the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix.

An AI-generated image of Charlie Kirk embracing Jesus. Another of Kirk posing with angel wings and halo. Then there’s the one of Kirk standing with George Floyd at the gates of heaven. When prominent political or cultural figures die in the U.S., the remembrance of their life often veers into hagiography. And that’s what’s been happening since the gruesome killing of conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

How Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ Speaks to America’s Psyche

September 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Bruce Springsteen performs in Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1975, during the ‘Born to Run’ tour.

Bruce Springsteen’s1975 “Born to Run” album was shaped by the times, particularly the malaise of the post-Vietnam and post-Watergate American landscape. There was an energy crisis, and it wasn’t only oil that was in short supply. These lyrical, operatic songs about freedom and fate, triumph and tragedy, still resonate, even though today’s music is more likely to emphasize beats, samples and software than extended guitar and saxophone solos.

At Least in France They Imprison Their Felon Ex-Presidents

September 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

It's all over for Sarkozy, who was sentenced to five years in prison for corruption. (Wikimedia Commons)

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy. Sentenced to five years in prison, he is due to appear in court on 13 October to learn the date of his incarceration. The unprecedented ruling enshrines the Republican principle of full and complete equality of citizens before the law.

Trump’s Targeting of ‘Enemies’ Like Comey Echoes Grimmest History

September 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The building in Media, Penn. where burglars in 1971 found evidence of decades of FBI abuses against citizens.

At the Department of Justice, a “Weaponization Working Group” has a long list of Trump’s perceived enemies to investigate. It marks the first time since J. Edgar Hoover’s 48-year reign as FBI director that the FBI has targeted massive numbers of people perceived to be political enemies. The recent statements from both Trump and top aide Miller suggest the FBI’s independence, and broader constitutional requirements that the administration remain faithful to the law, are meaningless to them. They suggest that, like Hoover, they would criminalize dissent.

It Is Happening Here

September 26, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 15 Comments

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Where would America be without hyperbole? From the chutzpah of the City Upon a Hill speech aboard the Arbella to the skirmish-turned Boston “massacre” to American Carnage a few years ago to the ongoing beatification of Charlie Kirk, it’s fair to say that without hyperbole, America would be more like a sprawly humble Saskatchewan than the Galactic Empire it’s become. But America’s slouch toward fascism is no hyperbole. Sinclair Lewis once mused that it can happen here. Today, it is happening here.

The Extremist Federalist Society’s Lock on the Supreme Court

September 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Justices affiliated with the Federalist Society will advance the conservative legal agenda decades into the future. The Federalist Society’s educational mission is pursued chiefly in law schools. That’s where it trains the next generation of lawyers in the approaches and goals of the conservative legal movement. This includes promoting the judicial philosophy of originalism – the idea that the best way to interpret the U.S. Constitution is according to how it was understood at the time of its adoption.

Looking Beyond the Turning Point of Charlie Kirk’s Death to the Soil We’re Tilling for the Next Generation

September 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

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Charlie Kirk’s assassination feels like more than another entry in America’s long and tragic list of political violence. It feels like a hinge point, writes former School Board member Colleen Conklin. But history suggests scars can be the beginning of strength. If the pattern holds, today’s youth may yet rise to become the next Greatest Generation. Now is the time to cultivate compassion stronger than ideology, courage rooted in empathy, the ability to separate people from their ideas. What then grows could astonish us.

Trump’s ‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’ Speech

September 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Trump at the United Nations

Trump congratulated himself, for turning the US into the “hottest country anywhere in the world” for repelling a “colossal invasion” of migrants at America’s southern border and for ending seven wars – for which he repeated his line that he should have been given the Nobel peace prize.

The Problem with Auschwitz-Birkenau’s New Digital Camp Replica

September 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The digital Picture From Auschwitz project. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)

Use of digital technology to safeguard Holocaust memories for future generations is symptomatic of a global shift towards digitising the Holocaust as the survivor generation passes on and heritage sites decay over time. While the virtual site digitally preserves and encourages historically rooted depictions of the camp, it cannot ensure ethical engagement with the Holocaust. In fact, its creation only raises further issues about the extent to which the Holocaust’s digitisation goes hand-in-hand with ethical modes of remembrance and representation.

Florida Is Misleadingly Invoking Slavery as It Readies to Kill All Vaccine Mandates in Schools

September 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Vaccination rates in Florida schools have dipped below the threshold for immunity to certain preventable diseases.

On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates for its citizens, including those for children to attend school. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general and a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, has stated that “every last one” of these decades-old vaccine requirements “is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery.” He is wrong.

Teaching Fact-Checking to College Students Blasted By Misinformation

September 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Smartphones are a window into a world of misinformation.

For Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, social media – especially YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat – has become their source of information about the world, eclipsing traditional news outlets. In a survey of more than 1,000 young people ages 13 to 18, 8 in 10 said they encounter conspiracy theories in their social media feeds each week, yet only 39% reported receiving instruction in evaluating the claims they saw there. The Civic Online Reasoning program was built to address this gap.

Donald Trump’s New McCarthyism

September 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Joe McCarthy on crack. (Leon Neal/Pool Getty/AP)

A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history. This is far-right “cancel culture”, the likes of which the US hasn’t seen since the McCarthy era in the 1950s.

Condemning the Kirk Assassination, and Condemning What Kirk Stood For

September 19, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 101 Comments

Father Charles Coughlin was once all the rage, too. (Library of Congress)

It is possible to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk and still condemn the ideas he stood for, to decry the flags at half-mast for so-called values hardly distinguishable from those of Proud Boys. A glean of the successful agenda Kirk pushed shows to what extent nationalist Christian extremism has been re-normalized, with Kirk playing an essential role in that latest of Great Awakenings. It was not a healing voice.

Hell No: Boston Whaler Should Not Be Allowed to Exit Without a Fight from Flagler County’s Leadership

September 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

The good days back when Brunswick's plant was a Sea Ray Boats operation, before it shut down in 2018 to reopen in 2021 as a Boston Whaler operation. (© FlaglerLive)

We cheered when Brunswick returned after closing once before, investing taxpayer resources and community goodwill in welcoming them back. Now, once again, we are faced with the prospect of a shuttered plant and broken promises. At what point do we as a community stand behind our leaders and say hell no, you can’t go?

State Department Layoffs Could Hurt American Companies’ Competitiveness

September 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

American businesses operating in Europe will soon have to follow new human rights rules – with less help from the U.S. than they once had.

When more than 1,300 people at the U.S. State Department lost their jobs in a mass firing this summer, most headlines focused on what it meant for American diplomacy. But the layoffs are about more than embassies and foreign policy – they could also make it harder for U.S. companies to compete in global markets.

Fact: Right-Wing Violence More Frequent and Deadly Than Left-Wing Violence

September 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

President Donald Trump is targeting left-wing organizations he incorrectly says promote political violence.

Most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism. During the 2024 election cycle, nearly half of all states reported threats against election workers, including social media death threats, intimidation and doxing. Domestic violent extremism is defined by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security as violence or credible threats of violence intended to influence government policy or intimidate civilians for political or ideological purposes.

Fox’s Murdoch to Public Interest Journalism: Drop Dead

September 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Rupert Murdoch. (Wikimedia Commons)

Rupert Murdoch has succeeded in securing his vision for the future of News Corporation, the global media empire he has always thought of as his family business. To achieve this, he has torn apart his family. He has also ensured his media outlets, especially Fox News, remain committed to his hard right-wing views. Rupert’s chosen successor and elder son Lachlan has headed News Corporation and Fox Corporation since Murdoch stepped aside in 2023, and will inherit the empire.

Charlie Kirk Wanted American Education Wrested from Liberals

September 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, shortly before he was shot and killed.

A large part of Kirk’s political activism centered on what education should look like. Conservatives, well before Kirk’s time, have been trying to reclaim education from liberals whom they view as valuing equity and belonging instead of timeless values of order and traditional values in society. This philosophy overall focuses on reclaiming education from liberals.

As the Colorado River Dies, A New Battle Over Water Rights

September 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Lake Mead, impounded by Hoover Dam, contains far less water than it used to.

The seven Colorado Basin states have been grappling with how to deal with declining Colorado River supplies for a quarter century, revising usage guidelines and taking additional measures as drought has persisted and reservoir levels have continued to decline. The current guidelines will expire in late 2026, and talks on new guidelines have been stalled because the states can’t agree on how to avoid a future crisis.

In Florida, We Want Guns in Our Streets, Not Rainbows

September 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

State Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith stands near the crosswalk outside the Pulse memorial site in Orlando on Aug. 23, 2025. State workers had removed Gay Pride colors at the site, but activists used chalk to restore the colors. The state later repaved the site. (Via Smith’s X feed)

No doubt Gov. Ron DeSantis expects Floridians to be grateful for saving us from yet another woke attack on decency, probity, and speeding motorists. Meaning colorful crosswalks. Just as he has fought to expel books by Black and gay authors from our schools, the governor has ordered FDOT to paint over the flowers, the sunbursts, the fish, the musical notes, and the rainbows — especially the rainbows. At least a dozen schools in Tampa will see their “Crosswalks to Classrooms” school crossings destroyed, including one painted to look like a shelf of books. Florida’s government is particularly scared of books.

How to Avoid Seeing Disturbing Content on Social Media

September 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Richlin Ryan's 'The Scream.' Click on the image for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Social media platforms are designed to maximize engagement, not protect your peace of mind. The major platforms have also reduced their content moderation efforts over the past year or so. That means upsetting content can reach you even when you never chose to watch it. You do not have to watch every piece of content that crosses your screen, however. Protecting your own mental state is not avoidance or denial. It’s a way of safeguarding the bandwidth you need to stay engaged, compassionate and effective.

America’s 250 Years of Political Violence: It’s Very Much Who We Are

September 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Punishment by tar and feather of Thomas Ditson, who purchased a gun from a British soldier in Boston in March 1775.

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we are as Americans.” But it is. American politics has long personalized its violence. the U.S. was founded upon – and has long been sustained by – this very form of political violence.

83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Have Been Civilians

September 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Assuming they make it past the next Israeli bullet. (Wikimedia Commons)

Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database, reported recently by the Guardian, indicate that 83% of the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza as of May have been civilians. Israel’s own military data also now shows that Israeli officials have both overstated the number of militants they say have been killed and, by implication, the ratio of civilian to militant deaths.

Canadians, Like Others, Are Snubbing Travel to The U.S. This Summer

September 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Canadian-US border. (Wikimedia Commons)

Global attitudes towards the United States as a tourism destination are plunging. Travel pressures, exchange rate shifts and increasing economic uncertainty have all damaged the reputation of the American travel sector. Canadian travellers are increasingly turning to domestic destinations instead of heading south. In July, Canada recorded its seventh consecutive month of declining travel by Canadians to the U.S..

Netanyahu’s ‘Cowardly’ Attack on Qatar and His Rage for Decapitation

September 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is not interested in negotiations. (Wikimedia Commons)

Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike on the Qatari capital of Doha on September 9, the first time it has directly attacked a Gulf state. The Qatari government said it “strongly condemns the cowardly Israeli attack”, which it described as “a blatant violation of international law”. The Netanyahu government has now decided that its regional objectives will be pursued through “decapitation”.

Why FEMA Is Essential in Disasters

September 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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To better understand FEMA’s value, let’s take a look back at how the nation responded to disasters before the agency existed–it wasn’t pretty– and what history reveals about when FEMA was most effective.

How Targeted US Hit on Caribbean Boat Was a Blatant Violation of International Law

September 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The moment before an alleged drug boat was hit in a targeted U.S. strike. @realDonaldTrump/Truth Social

The U.S. government is justifying its lethal destruction of a boat suspected of transporting illegal drugs in the Caribbean as an attack on “narco-terrorists.” To an expert on international law, that line of argument goes nowhere. Even if, as the U.S. claims, the 11 people killed in the Sept. 2, 2025, U.S. Naval strike were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, it would make no difference under the laws that govern the use of force by state actors. Unlawful killing is unlawful regardless of who does it, why, or the reaction to it. And in regard to the U.S. strike on the alleged Venezuelan drug boat, the deaths were unlawful.

Canada Leading UK and France in Boycott of American Goods Over Trump Tariffs

September 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

United against American goods. (© FlaglerLive)

Statistics Canada reports that Canadian trips to the U.S. are down by 28.7 per cent from last year. Left-wing and right-wing people are participating in the boycott of American products. There are no ideological differences in participation in Canada and France. However, in the U.K., those on the right are more likely to boycott American products, services and travel than those on the left.

How AI Is About to Change Military Command Structures

September 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

This U.S. Army command post, seen from a drone, is loaded with modern technology but uses a centuries-old structure.

Despite two centuries of evolution, the structure of a modern military staff would be recognizable to Napoleon. At the same time, military organizations have struggled to incorporate new technologies as they adapt to new domains – air, space and information – in modern war. AI agents – autonomous, goal-oriented software powered by large language models – can automate routine staff tasks, compress decision timelines and enable smaller, more resilient command posts. They can shrink the staff while also making it more effective.

AI Slop: As Cheap and Sleazy as It Sounds

September 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

This AI-generated image spread far and wide in the wake of Hurricane Helene in 2024. AI-generated image circulated on social media

AI slop is low- to mid-quality content – video, images, audio, text or a mix – created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy. It’s fast, easy and inexpensive to make this content. AI slop producers typically place it on social media to exploit the economics of attention on the internet, displacing higher-quality material that could be more helpful. AI slop has been increasing over the past few years. As the term “slop” indicates, that’s generally not good for people using the internet.

Understanding China’s New Military Power

September 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The missiles have gotten bigger and China's might mightier since a 2015 military parade. (Wikimedia Commons)

With the conflicts in Ukraine, south Asia, and the Middle East showing the limitations of more established European and Russian hardware, there are growing opportunities for Chinese weapons technology. It’s also likely that Chinese military systems will find customers among countries that are not on Donald Trump’s list of favoured nations, such as Iran. Should Iran be able to equip itself with Chinese systems, it will be better placed to go head-to-head with Israel.

Sanctuary Cities Were Result of American-Backed Atrocities in Central America

September 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Today’s sanctuary practices, and the federal targeting of sanctuary cities, are largely the result of the way sanctuary took shape across the U.S. in the 1980s when churches, city officials and activists assisted migrants fleeing the violent conditions created by U.S. proxy wars in Central America. To a large extent, this was the result of the Reagan administration’s refusal to acknowledge the extent of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S.-supported regimes in Central America.

Is a Palestinian State Even Possible Anymore?

September 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A segment of the so-called separation barrier in the West Bank. (Wkimedia Commons)

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly meeting in September, joining the United Kingdom, Canada and France in taking the historic step. The Israeli government has ruled out a two-state solution and reacted with fury to the moves by the four G20 members to recognise Palestine. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the decision “shameful”. Practically speaking, the formation of a future Palestinian state consisting of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem will be difficult to achieve.

‘It’s A Complicated Time to Be a White Southerner’

August 31, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

A scene in the Mondex. (© FlaglerLive)

There is not much research on how white people think about what it means to be white. Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound. Some white Southerners fit those tropes. Many others do not. Overall, white Southerners across the political spectrum actively grappling with their white racial status.

Republicans Split Over Flag-Burning

August 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Those who hold constitutional principles in high regard are increasingly concerned about a president demonstrating his desire for expansive power. And, the US Supreme Court has clearly ruled on more than one occasion that the act, however distasteful, is constitutionally permitted. Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice and noted constitutional textualist, famously stated that “if it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag”. But, he added: “I am not king.”

Netflix’s ‘Mo’: To be Palestinian and Mexican in Today’s America

August 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Comedy can be a useful tool to help tackle challenging topics. In Netflix’s ‘Mo,’ characters deal with immigration, war, poverty and memories of Palestine. (Netflix)

Mohammed Amer’s “Mo” provokes laughter and stirs deep emotions, including despair, loneliness and helplessness, as the episodes explore life in America for people on the margins. Mo is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Amer’s life. He’s a Palestinian who grew up in Houston, Texas, immigrating to that city when he was nine years old by way of Kuwait. The comedy-drama format allows Mo to address difficult and divisive issues, such as immigration in America and the Israel-Gaza war, in non-threatening ways.

National Parks Are Overrun and Under-Funded. Here’s How You Can Adapt or a Better Experience.

August 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Crowds often form at popular places in U.S. national parks, like the entrance to Yosemite Valley in California.

National park visitation is growing, with record-high visitor numbers in 2024 across the entire 398-property system, as well as at the 63 formally designated national parks. And there has been a general trend of people gravitating to Instagram-popular parks, and even specific spots within popular parks. Reductions in federal funding and staffing at national parks means visitors may see longer lines to enter parks or popular locations within them, fewer visitor services and educational programs, and fewer rangers to ask for advice or assistance.

How the Catholic Church Helped Change the Conversation About Capital Punishment

August 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Helen Prejean has been one of the most high-profile opponents of the death penalty for decades.

The Catholic church’s anti-death penalty teaching has helped provide both a moral foundation and political respectability for those working to end the death penalty. But that teaching is relatively new in the church, dating back to the past half-century. For most of its history, the Catholic Church did not oppose the death penalty.

Israel Has Been Silencing and Assassinating Palestinians Journalists Since 1967

August 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A funeral ceremony takes place in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital in Gaza following the deaths of five journalists on Aug. 25, 2025.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, which collates that data, accuses Israel of “engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists” that the U.S.-based nonprofit has ever seen. “Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work,” the committee added. This history stretches back to at least 1967, when Israel militarily occupied the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip following the Six-Day War.

Trump’s Invasion of DC Costs Over $1 Million a Day. Here’s What That Could Pay for Instead.

August 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Deploying the National Guard against D.C.’s unhoused population costs four times more than simply housing them. That’s true across the country.

James Dobson’s Crusade on America

August 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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For decades, one name was ubiquitous in American evangelical homes: Focus on the Family. A media empire with millions of listeners and readers, its messages about parenting, marriage and politics seemed to reach every conservative Christian church and school. And one man’s name was nearly synonymous with Focus on the Family: James Dobson.

The Grim Side of Plantation Tourism

August 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Nottoway Plantation, seen before the fire.

The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where that struggle is most visible. the impulse to monetize history isn’t new. More than 300 plantation sites across the country generate billions of dollars in revenue each year. This type of tourism forces communities and visitors alike to ask a difficult question: What parts of the past do Americans preserve, and for whom?

Free State of Florida Proclaims Right-Wing Indoctrination in Schools

August 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Classroom at Andrew Jackson High School, Jacksonville, 1959, via State Library and Archives of Florida.

We’re proud to be bringing these precious boys and girls (note the statutorily mandated unambiguous sex designations) the finest curriculum in these United States, handcrafted with love by Gov. Ron DeSantis (J.D. Harvard), Commissioner of Education Anastasios “Stasi” Kamoutsas (J.D. Regent), and your Florida Legislature, all of whom graduated from high school, probably. Here’s a taste of what we have in store for your student! Not to worry: Kids educated in Florida have been trained to resist inappropriate thought.And they can always report professors pushing DEI or CRT or BLM.

Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts of Water. Companies Rarely Tell the Public How Much.

August 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The Columbia River running through The Dalles, Oregon, supplies water to cool data centers.

A 2024 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that in 2023, U.S. data centers consumed 17 billion gallons (64 billion liters) of water directly through cooling, and projects that by 2028, those figures could double – or even quadruple. The same report estimated that in 2023, U.S. data centers consumed an additional 211 billion gallons (800 billion liters) of water indirectly through the electricity that powers them. But that is just an estimate in a fast-changing industry.

Zohran Mamdani Exposes Nullity of Democrats and Republicans

August 23, 2025 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

On the bus with Zohran Mamdani. (Facebook)

The reaction by Democrats and Republicans to the Zohran Mamdani phenomenon in New York City has been like an MRI of both our parties’ cancerous hopelessness. Democrats in their wilderness should be championing energetic countercurrents who could slow the slide and focus the party on everyday challenges. But instead of capitalizing on a new voice that champions the disaffected, Democrats are competing with Republicans in a race to the muckiest.

Why the Eiffel Tower Gets Bigger Every Summer

August 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

La grande tour. (© FlaglerLive)

Specialists have estimated that the Eiffel Tower actually grows between 12 and 15 centimetres when comparing its size on cold winter days with the hottest days of summer. This means that, in addition to being a landmark, a communications tower and a symbol of Paris itself, the Eiffel Tower is also, in effect, a giant thermometer.

Ancient Greeks Did Not Share Your Love of the Beach

August 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Unlike today, Early Europeans, and especially the ancient Greeks, thought the beach was a place of hardship and death. (© FlaglerLive)

Beach vacations only became popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries as part of the lifestyle of the wealthy in Western countries. Early Europeans, and especially the ancient Greeks, thought the beach was a place of hardship and death. As a seafaring people, they mostly lived on the coastline, yet they feared the sea and thought that an agricultural lifestyle was safer and more respectable.

As US Folds on Climate, China’s Leadership Steps In

August 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meet in Beijing in May 2025.

While it’s still too early to fully assess the long-term impact of the United States’ political shift when it comes to global cooperation on climate change, there are signs that a new set of leaders is rising to the occasion. China and the European Union issued a joint statement vowing to strengthen their climate targets and meet them. They alluded to the U.S., referring to “the fluid and turbulent international situation today” in saying that “the major economies … must step up efforts to address climate change.”

4 Years of Repressive Taliban Rule, But the World Looks Elsewhere

August 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Taliban soldiers patrolling Kabul in 2021. (Wikimedia Commons)

Despite promises of moderation and inclusion, four years later, the Taliban has established a repressive, exclusionary regime – one that has dismantled institutions of law, justice and civil rights with ruthless efficiency. As the Taliban regime has tightened its grip, international attention has waned. Crises elsewhere dominate the global agenda, pushing Afghanistan out of the spotlight. With the Taliban seeking to end its isolation and gain legitimacy, can the international community find the will now to exert real pressure?

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