
International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #4 Issue #1


Click Here to Read: How Mexico Proved Mainstream Economics Wrong: American analysts have long viewed inequality as a byproduct of technological causes. But Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena Party has boosted workers’ income without any technological tradeoffs by Jonathan Schlefer in Nation Magazine substack on October 6, 2026.
Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum. Image: Presidencia de Guatemala. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: What We Surrender to AI: CAI Currents including: When Public Money Supports AI “Therapy” by Molly Pachan, PhD; What Chatbots Cost the People Who Love Them by Heather deCastro, LCSW and Cognitive Surrender: Is Resistance Futile? by Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD on The American Psychoanalyst Substack on October 6, 2026.

Click Here to Read: Plague More Than Five Millennia Ago Sets Back the Date of the Earliest Outbreak The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor Yersinia pestis” bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the disease to spread by Sonja Anderson on the Smithsonian Magazine website on June 18, 2026.
Scanning electron microphotograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria (the cause of bubbonic plague) in the foregutte of the flea vector Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/biodefense/Public/Images.htm Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Withdrawal. U.S. troops complete their withdrawal from Iraq as Trump rejects Iran’s latest peace proposal, oil climbs past $100 a barrel, and the Treasury market closes its worst quarter since 1994 on The Nation substack on October 03, 2026.
U.S. Soldiers depart Forward Operating Base Baylough, Afghanistan, June 16, 2010, to conduct a patrol. The Soldiers are from 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. William Tremblay, U.S. Army/Released) Image: The U.S. Army. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
