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US election: how Trump and his followers use offensive humour to make prejudice acceptable

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Friday, February 16, 2024

Hannity asked Trump to guarantee he would not abuse his power or seek retribution if he was reelected in 2024.

Key Points: 
  • Hannity asked Trump to guarantee he would not abuse his power or seek retribution if he was reelected in 2024.
  • But evidence suggests that Trump may, in fact, abuse power and seek retribution if he regains the presidency.
  • For example, Trump hinted that he will use the Department of Justice to persecute his political adversaries.
  • So Trump’s jokey response may tell the truth, or at least a distorted version of the truth.
  • But what’s different is the type of humour that Trump and the politicians that follow him indulge in.
  • Telling an offensive joke serves up prejudice and hatred with a side order of irony.
  • Delivered with a nod and a wink, humour reassures us that it’s all just “a bit of fun”.

Joking aside

  • In his 1905 book The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious, Freud argued that jokes – especially offensive ones – reveal our inner urges.
  • We are trained from an early age to be kind and polite to other people.
  • But offensive jokes let us temporarily pause social prohibitions and flirt with our innermost fantasies.
  • After all, Trump was only joking about being a dictator.


Nick Butler does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Landmark UAE Consensus becomes defining framework for all countries to keep 1.5°C within reach and ensure global implementation

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

It gives clear direction to all countries on how to keep 1.5°C within reach, transforms agreements into tangible outcomes, and ensures global implementation by delivering a set of world firsts.

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  • It gives clear direction to all countries on how to keep 1.5°C within reach, transforms agreements into tangible outcomes, and ensures global implementation by delivering a set of world firsts.
  • The UAE Consensus reaffirms the UAE's position as a global leader in multilateral climate and development settings.
  • The UAE Consensus also proved that multilateralism can still work, even at a time of high geopolitical tension.
  • "If this agreement is to get traction, we need serious action," Dr. Al Jaber said, "Now the hard work begins."

Piero Cipollone: The euro at 25: what next for Economic and Monetary Union?

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

We document how gas price fluctuations have a heterogeneous pass-through to euro area prices depending on the underlying shock driving them.

Key Points: 
  • We document how gas price fluctuations have a heterogeneous pass-through to euro area prices depending on the underlying shock driving them.
  • Supply shocks, moreover, are found to pass through to all components of euro area inflation – producer prices, wages and core inflation, which has implications for monetary policy.

Landmark UAE Consensus becomes defining framework for all countries to keep 1.5°C within reach and ensure global implementation

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Monday, February 12, 2024

The UAE Consensus also successfully operationalized and began financing a fund to address Loss and Damage for the first time.

Key Points: 
  • The UAE Consensus also successfully operationalized and began financing a fund to address Loss and Damage for the first time.
  • The UAE Consensus reaffirms the UAE's position as a global leader in multilateral climate and development settings.
  • The UAE Consensus also proved that multilateralism can still work, even at a time of high geopolitical tension.
  • An important opportunity lies in working multilaterally on commitments to deliver high-ambition decisions at COP28, including through the UAE Consensus.

Press release - President Iohannis: “We must stand by Ukraine and its people”

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament on Wednesday the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.

Key Points: 
  • Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament on Wednesday the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.
  • Continuing support for Ukraine must be among the EU’s key priorities, according to the Romanian President.
  • “We must stand by Ukraine and its people,” he stressed, adding that defending democracy, territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as the rules-based international order, cannot be subject to any “solidarity fatigue”.
  • Enlargement is an essential part of EU’s strategic answer to the geopolitical developments, he added, and a key investment in lasting peace, stability and democracy.

Article - President Iohannis: “We must stand by Ukraine and its people”

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.

Key Points: 
  • Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.
  • Continuing support for Ukraine must be among the EU’s key priorities, according to the Romanian President.
  • “We must stand by Ukraine and its people,” he stressed, adding that defending democracy, territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as the rules-based international order, cannot be subject to any “solidarity fatigue”.
  • Enlargement is an essential part of EU’s strategic answer to the geopolitical developments, he added, and a key investment in lasting peace, stability and democracy.

Do women have to be naked to get into museums? Why female artists continue to be underrepresented in the art world

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

We challenge you to name, off the top of your head, a few women artists exhibited in museums. If male names come more readily to mind, it’s not by chance: women, in art as in many other spheres associated with a form of power, influence or prestige, are far less recognised, exhibited and studied than their male counterparts.Female artists’ feeble presence in museumsAccording to recent research, there are still few women artists in museums.

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We challenge you to name, off the top of your head, a few women artists exhibited in museums. If male names come more readily to mind, it’s not by chance: women, in art as in many other spheres associated with a form of power, influence or prestige, are far less recognised, exhibited and studied than their male counterparts.

Female artists’ feeble presence in museums

  • According to recent research, there are still few women artists in museums.
  • In the United States in 2019, in the 18 largest museums in terms of visitor numbers, 87% of the artists exhibited in the permanent collections were men.
  • Similarly, in France, a 2021 study lists 93.4% male artists in the catalogues of national public museums.
  • One might retort that a good number of European exhibitions have been devoted to women artists of late.

Stereotypes and presumption of unfitness

  • A first element of explanation seems to be linked to gender stereotypes, with the presumption that women are unfit to create “official” art.
  • Since the 1970s, a number of studies have shown that “masculine” characteristics are more widely associated with the ideal type of leader.
  • Despite increasing numbers of women in business and academia, these stereotypes are relatively stable, particularly among men who perceive women as unsuitable for strategic managerial positions.

“Think artist, think male”

  • Our 2018 study concurs with this view, highlighting the qualities of a leader are particularly associated with so-called “masculine” characteristics.
  • This assimilation of man-leader, man-artist feeds a vicious circle that keeps women away from positions of power in companies and ambitious projects in the art world.

Differentiated access to opportunities

  • Even if a small number of women artists manage to be exhibited in museums, historically, they remain mostly confined to less prestigious painting genres (portraits, still life, miniatures).
  • The Académie established a hierarchy of genres, with history painting, depicting heroic figures, and the “petit genre”, depicting intimate or light subjects, at the top, followed by landscape and still life.

Network and influence

  • Unequal access to professional networks and influential people limits women artists’ opportunities for development, visibility and recognition.
  • Male social networks, which generate active solidarity, have no female equivalent, or only marginal ones.
  • Similarly, to access strategic positions in companies, it is necessary to be part of networks of influence in order to forge links, build social capital and be able to seize opportunities and emerge as leaders.


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The Huntsman Family Foundation and James "JB" Brown Emmy Award Broadcaster Announce Global Movement to End Stigma of Mental Health

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Friday, February 2, 2024

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Huntsman Family Foundation is heading to Las Vegas to begin its groundbreaking "Message of Hope" to end the stigma associated with Mental Health, Suicide, and Addiction. The Huntsman Family Foundation is committed to providing comprehensive cancer treatment, mental health, and substance use disorders treatment. Through groundbreaking research and support, we cultivate hope and remind you, "You are not the only one." The Huntsman Family Foundation will be working with James "JB" Brown, the host of CBS NFL Today, as it engages with several long-standing initiatives that lift humanity and increase awareness, including:

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  • The Huntsman Family Foundation is heading to Las Vegas to continue its groundbreaking movement to end the stigma associated with Mental Health, Suicide, and Addiction.
  • SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Huntsman Family Foundation is heading to Las Vegas to begin its groundbreaking "Message of Hope" to end the stigma associated with Mental Health, Suicide, and Addiction.
  • The Huntsman Family Foundation is committed to providing comprehensive cancer treatment, mental health, and substance use disorders treatment.
  • The family is building a more just world where mental health has parity with physical health, and no one suffers in silence."

WiLL ALLIANCE™ PAVES THE WAY FOR WOMEN IN EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP THROUGH LEAN LEADERSHIP FUNDAMENTALS

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

In the current corporate arena, women constitute a mere 10% of CEOs in publicly-traded organizations, a trend that WiLL ALLIANCE™ aims to reverse.

Key Points: 
  • In the current corporate arena, women constitute a mere 10% of CEOs in publicly-traded organizations, a trend that WiLL ALLIANCE™ aims to reverse.
  • Recognizing that gender parity at the top translates to enhanced decision-making and superior results for corporations of all sizes, WiLL ALLIANCE™ is revolutionizing Executive Development for Women, with a commitment to shattering gender barriers.
  • Stanzi Prell, CEO of WiLL ALLIANCE™, emphasizes the urgency of the organization's mission: "Given the stagnating gender imbalance in leadership teams and boardrooms, there is a need for specific executive development for women.
  • The leadership team at WiLL ALLIANCE™, boasting 60+ years in corporate endeavors and 30+ years in entrepreneurship and consulting, combines diverse expertise.

Long after Indigenous activists flee Russia, they continue to face government pressure to remain silent

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Today, however, Sulyandziga, 61, and his family members continue to be harassed by the Russian government.

Key Points: 
  • Today, however, Sulyandziga, 61, and his family members continue to be harassed by the Russian government.
  • Beyond repression at home, the Russian government is increasingly trying to silence activists like Sulyandziga even after they leave Russia.
  • This kind of harassment is called transnational repression, and it means that Indigenous activists are vulnerable in exile as well as at home.

Indigenous people of Russia

  • Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has legally recognized 47 Indigenous peoples, though more than 150 groups claim Indigenous status.
  • There was a flowering of Indigenous activism in Russia during the more open politics of the 1990s.
  • But Indigenous peoples remain among the most socially and economically marginalized groups in Russia.

Indigenous activism and Russia’s war in Ukraine

  • Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has created new problems for Indigenous communities in Russia.
  • Driven by poverty and patriotic appeals, young men from Indigenous communities enlist in the military in disproportionately high numbers.
  • Some Indigenous exiles have exercised their new freedoms by protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The Russian government’s pressure on Indigenous people

  • The Russian government uses the tools of transnational repression against Indigenous activists who have left Russia.
  • These include damaging activists’ reputations in media coverage, initiating spurious legal cases, confiscating their property and harassing relatives and colleagues who remain in Russia.
  • Ruslan Gabbasov, an activist from the Bashkir ethnic minority in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, left his homeland in 2021 due to increasing pressure on his activism.

A foreign policy concern

  • These anti-war groups compare Russia’s violence toward Ukrainians with their own histories of oppression and call for decolonization in the region.
  • Repression also is designed to drive a wedge between Indigenous communities in Russia and activists abroad who maintain connections via online platforms such as Telegram.
  • The Russian government had labeled his original organization a foreign agent, even before he fled to the U.S.
  • Pavel Sulyandziga, president of the Batani International Indigenous Fund for Solidarity and Development and visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, contributed to this article.


Laura A. Henry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.