Stop falling for and spreading nonsensical clickbait — For the past few days, there has been a full-on social media freakout over the reports that Marvel is planning to change the X-Men’s name when the famous mutants make their MCU debut. …

Amazon refuses to admit its mistake and give customers the fix they’ve been demanding Back in March, I wrote an article about Amazon’s disastrous roll-out of the “new” ComiXology app. These changes included replacing the old ComiXology app with a Kindle app clone sporting the ComiXology color scheme and trashing…

Our politicians don’t represent us and our institutions have turned their backs “Why do you like living in Japan instead of America?” That’s a common question I get asked, and it’s one that other immigrants in Japan are no doubt very familiar with—not only from people in Japan but also…

Opposition lawmakers want to ban foreign residents from entering the country I awoke this morning to find the following tweet from Waseda Yuki, a representative of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan:

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri is, alongside Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, one of the spiritual leaders of the violent insurrection that took place at the Capitol on January 6th. …

The torture architect has made Berkeley Law an institute of injustice — In a 2005 debate, law professor Doug Cassel asked John Yoo the following question: If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him? Yoo’s response? “No treaty.” Also in 2005, Anne-Marie Slaughter…

Japanese politicians want to prevent COVID-19 assistance from going to Japan’s foreign-born population — Despite its record of homogeneity, Japan has a foreign-born population of about 2.8 million people (recorded in June 2019), a number which has steadily increased year after year. Due to its aging population, the Japanese government has seen the need to loosen immigration requirements to attract people from overseas whose…

If the former NYC mayor becomes the nominee, the Democratic Party will not survive What if I told you the left wing and the right wing belong to the same bird? This famous saying appears on dozens, if not hundreds of memes, and it’s something of a mantra among those…

How Amazon has spent years ignoring deliberate miscategorization by unscrupulous authors — One of the best things about the advent of Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program is it has given writers and readers alike the chance to explore genres that traditional publishing might consider too niche to take a chance on. While the big publishers are more concerned with the broadest…