Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses” ~life.women Article 455 words 12 votes
Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine ~enviro Article 1338 words 13 votes
Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says ~enviro Article 937 words 19 votes
Germany, France and how not to do deterrence – The EU’s two leading powers are causing confusion and anger among allies as Ukraine’s future hangs by a thread ~misc politics Link 12 votes
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s ~health healthcare Article 398 words 29 votes
Trumpist US policy document Project 2025 cowritten by anti social security economist Stephen Moore ~misc politics Article 959 words 35 votes
Donald Trump built a national debt so big (even before the pandemic) that it’ll weigh down the US economy for years [published 2021] ~misc politics Article 2379 words 41 votes
Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy ~finance economics Article 9 votes
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware ~tech security.cyber PDF 38 votes
EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 – Study finds ‘systematic progress’ achieved in 2010s with some states reaching targets a decade early ~enviro climate change sustainability Article 609 words 20 votes
Denmark's second-largest city is trialling a first-of-its-kind deposit scheme to tackle single-use coffee cups ~enviro Article 518 words, published Jan 25 2024 20 votes
Sri Lanka ends visas for hundreds of thousands of Russians staying there to avoid war ~news sri lanka russia ukraine politics Article 440 words 21 votes
The 24-hour city: In a push to bolster nightlife, cities are changing laws to keep bars, restaurants and transit systems operating round-the-clock ~life Article 77 words 34 votes
Leasing like a state, or: public housing is development policy ~finance economics Article 1359 words 7 votes
Conservative government would require websites to verify age to watch porn: Pierre Poilievre ~tech internet Link 36 votes
Compensating compassion | Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier to donate, but avoid the abuses that some fear from cash payments? ~health Article 4781 words 32 votes
Germany's new cannabis law to pass this week and take effect in April ~news germany politics law Article 755 words 17 votes
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf ~enviro plastics recycling climate change Article 1101 words 45 votes
A lesson on US crime policy from game designers: Change the rules ~misc politics Article 1120 words, published Feb 1 2024 12 votes
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum ~humanities religion Article 2388 words 22 votes
What if US public housing were for everyone? ~life housing.public housing.affordable Article 2145 words, published Feb 10 2024 29 votes
DoD updates telework policy for the first time since 2012 ~life work.remote Article 1049 words, published Feb 5 2024 17 votes
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries ~life family parenting Article 2564 words 19 votes
NGOs allowed to seize €2.9 million from Belgian government for failure to shelter asylum seekers ~news belgium politics Article 560 words 13 votes
The $2.6 billion experiment to cover up Europe's dirty habit – Norwegian project to bury carbon waste under the sea is getting backing from Germany ~enviro climate change pollution.air Article 77 words 8 votes
Finnish unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners ~finance business Article 978 words 10 votes
Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling ~enviro climate change energy Article 1008 words 9 votes
A wolf killed EU president Ursula von der Leyen’s family pony, it ignited a high-stakes battle ~enviro Article 3729 words 27 votes
Greedflation accounts for fifty-three cents of every US dollar of inflation in past six months ~finance Article 528 words, published Jan 22 2024 62 votes
Palm Springs capped Airbnb rentals. Now some home prices are in free-fall. ~finance Article 1612 words 49 votes
Lessons from Finland's attempt to transition to a circular economy ~enviro recycling pollution Link 15 votes
HomeVestors (the “We Buy Ugly Houses” company) overhauls policies in the wake of ProPublica investigation ~life housing Article 944 words 19 votes
Canada announces cap on international students for next two years ~life education.higher housing Article 762 words 29 votes
The US GOP doesn’t want to punish trans people—it wants to eradicate them ~lgbt transgender Article 1405 words 77 votes
US FDA recommends easing restrictions on marijuana ~news usa politics law crime Article 1181 words 62 votes
EU seeks ‘consequences’ for Israel over opposition to Palestinian statehood ~news israel palestine politics Link 13 votes
Germany ends ban on dual citizenship and reduces the number of years of residency required for naturalisation ~life work Article 439 words 22 votes
Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein ~humanities.history Article 1848 words 4 votes
Norway's Arctic deep sea mining plan will inevitably sink – industrialising the ocean floor in the middle of a climate crisis is not only reckless, it's cruel ~enviro climate change Article 908 words 9 votes
Oil companies will soon pay fees for emitting a climate ‘super-pollutant’ ~enviro pollution.air climate change Article 952 words, published Jan 12 2024 11 votes