The once admirable push to remove section 18c of the federal Racial Discrimination Act, which makes it illegal to “offend or humiliate”, has disintegrated. Victoria’s legislative updates, passed in ...

Fallacies are defects in our arguments. They are likely to crop up when we feel strongly about an issue, when we construct an argument on the spur of the moment, or when we are factually ignorant of ...

The slippery slope fallacy is the claim that one action will lead to another bigger, more extreme action. Slippery slopes are used to exaggerate the consequences of an action to scare people away ...

Average people with good intentions can find themselves tumbling down the slippery slope of misconduct, often starting with ...

John Oliver, like his fellow late-night hosts before him, is ringing the alarm on president Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. The Last Week Tonight host wasted no time getting down to brass tacks ...

John Oliver has condemned Donald Trump ’s response to the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, warning of a “slippery slope to authoritarianism”. On this week’s edition of Last Week Tonight, Oliver launched ...

John Oliver has condemned Donald Trump’s response to the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, warning of a “slippery slope to authoritarianism”. On this week’s edition of Last Week Tonight, Oliver ...

This week the Legislature of New York State passed a bill, now sitting on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk, allowing assisted suicide for people facing a diagnosis that gives them six months or less to ...

John Oliver has condemned Donald Trump ’s response to the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, warning of a “slippery slope to authoritarianism”. On this week’s edition of Last Week Tonight, Oliver ...