Society

Australia Enacts Under-16 Social Media Ban

The government of Australia has introduced the world’s first outright social media ban for users under 16 years of age, with the legislation entering force on Wednesday, 10 December 2025. The new federal rules, announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government, require major digital platforms to block all new accounts and remove existing ones held by minors...

First View of a Supernova Explosion

Astronomers have captured the first direct observations of the “very early stages” of a supernova explosion. The supernova, designated SN 2024ggi, provided an unprecedented view of the “shock breakout” —the moment a massive internal shock wave, generated by the star’s collapsing core, breaches the star’s surface. This observation is the first of its kind and...

The USA Curse

When we open a newspaper, news broadcast or any other news-related media channel, the chance of crossing a headline at the very beginning of that respective media channel or platform that directly refers to the United States of America (hereinafter: USA) is extremely high. Intuitive explanations would certainly point to the fact that the USA...

Is Political Correctness Politically Correct?

The idea of political correctness has risen in recent years and has become part of the political discourse in many nations. It is a very young concept, as it appeared shortly after the Russian Revolution in the first quarter of the 20th century. Although the term “political correctness” originally meant to evaluate someone’s or something’s...

Fundamental Rules of Political Thinking

Thinking politically is not fundamentally different than entertaining productive thoughts in other realms of life. The main difference is that politics is the arena where the methods and results of all aspects flow into consideration with the aim to produce societally beneficial outcomes in the sense of genuine knowledge production. Further, the downside risk of...

Towards an Ideal State: The People

Philosophical ideologies shape the political landscape where people organise themselves in societal structures. Those ideologies, once rooted in what was believed to be inherent, divinely-given rules of conduct that governed only basic behaviour, evolved into concrete laws regulating the smallest details in every realm of modern societies. The process of selecting behavioural rules can be...