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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Middle Passage project unveils R.I. sculpture: looking ahead in strength, not back in despair, artist says

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Memorial Sculpture The Bristol Middle Passage Port Marker Project (BMP) today unveiled and dedicated the Bristol Memorial Sculpture by Rhod...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Vietnam marks 50 years since fall of Saigon, but American corporations overshadow communism today

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At Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Hanoi Vietnam recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and I visited Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

'The Shipbreakers' (2000) is classic Langewiesche; Hong Kong ship-breaking convention enters force

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William Langewiesche, 2007 Internaz via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Journalist  William Langewiesche died at age 70 in June ( N.Y. Times ). I ca...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Analog propaganda proves persuasive to some at 'Hanoi Hilton,' where exhibits selectively whitewash war

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Hỏa Lò Prison , Hanoi RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Media illiteracy is not just an affliction of the aged. In June, I visited Hỏa Lò Pris...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Regulatory overhaul opens opportunity to build 'transparency by design' into federal contracting

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Google Gemini CC0 Colleagues and I submitted a comment to the federal government yesterday urging recognition of the freedom of information,...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Might AI translation inadvertently shrink reality itself?

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Google Gemini CC0 AI language translation is making communication easier around the world. But might it also shrink our very perception of r...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Global collab promotes teaching law without borders

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Peltz-Steele, Lewinbuk, Rott-Pietrzyk, Kim, Rigó © Used with permission Collaborators and I had the privilege of discussing the Global Law C...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Updated 'TORTZ' features latest on Amazon liability, Texas 2-step, DaBaby defamation foes, much more

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New 2025 editions  of TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law , volumes 1 and 2 are posted and ready for academic year 2025-26. Two-volume TORTZ...