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13 votes
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Why the House of Representatives should be far bigger
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Sanders, Bloomberg trade insults as Democratic White House race heats up
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How to give California twelve senators and Vermont just one
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The six wings of the Democratic Party
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Who killed Swedish prime minister Olof Palme? After a night at the cinema in 1986, Palme was assassinated on Stockholm's busiest street
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The 'this is fine' bias in cable news
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Nevada culinary union lays into Sanders supporters after health care backlash
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Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge
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How could we regulate biased/lying media outlets and aggregators without encroaching on good ones?
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates...
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates and media aggregators ranging from r/the_donald to r/chapotraphouse banning anyone who opposes them. Thing is, these are the most well known examples. How could we tell faulty media sources and aggregators apart from good ones in mass? Do you think that's possible?
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Chinese scholar and outspoken critic directly blames Xi Jinping for severity of viral outbreak
8 votes -
Denmark marks Schleswig reunification – 100 years since the people in the region of Schleswig voted either to remain with Germany or to join Denmark
6 votes -
Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill
News article: Independent Zali Steggall eyes end of ‘climate wars’ with zero carbon bill Zali Steggall's website: Climate Change (National Framework for Adaptation and Mitigation) Bill 2020
7 votes -
Militia strike gold to cast a shadow over Sudan's hopes of prosperity
4 votes -
The problems that beset the Iowa Democratic caucuses ran far deeper and wider than one bad app
7 votes -
Joe Biden's campaign has released an ad attacking Pete Buttigieg's record and experience
14 votes -
Positions of the 2020 democratic candidates
5 votes -
Illiberal democracies explained
10 votes -
What powers do US judges have over an administration?
4 votes -
What does Waitangi Day mean to you? He aha te tikanga o te Rangi o Waitangi ki a koe?
5 votes -
An unsettling new theory: There is no "swing voter"
28 votes -
Revolt, populism, and reaction
5 votes -
Why the Republican party turned undemocratic
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We're through the Comet Ping Pong table here, people
5 votes -
Finland to become EU's only uranium producer – Finnish government gave the green light on Thursday for state-owned Terrafame to extract and refine
6 votes -
The billion-dollar disinformation campaign to re-elect the President
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Iowa Democratic caucus results delayed until Tuesday due to reporting inconsistencies and technical issues with app
35 votes -
US oil executives moved from house arrest to prison after Juan Guaido meets with Donald Trump
5 votes -
Elizabeth Warren before she was a politician
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“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
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What's good about nationalism?
This is a question I've been thinking about a great deal in the context of changing global power dynamics. Rising authoritarianism, militarism, fundamentalism, and other ailments of our times are...
This is a question I've been thinking about a great deal in the context of changing global power dynamics. Rising authoritarianism, militarism, fundamentalism, and other ailments of our times are getting in the way of dealing with universal threats to humanity, like climate change, pandemics, and even asteroid impacts.
But nationalism has such a grip on people's psyches... Parts are nostalgic, and parts are about tribal sense of belonging and purpose. Tonight, I watched a Chef's Table episode about a young Russian chef on a mission to make Russian cuisine great again (not his words). The interesting thing is that Mukhin essentially acknowledges that he's helping Russian cuisine become great not by denigrating other nation's products, or clinging to an idealized version of his home food, but through intentionally discovering what is worthwhile elsewhere and at home. It got me thinking about what's been lost in a globalized world, what could be found in isolated places, and what it would take to let people bridge local interests and universal values.
I'd also watched Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins over the weekend. Ivins' writing on Texas state politics as a microcosm and foreshadowing of current U.S. concerns is essential. Then I read Citylab's old story on the paralysis of New York subway system development.
It occurred to me that the U.S. has become fractally parochial, with increasingly local or corporate interests thwarting any exercise favoring broader national or regional goods. The original framing of the nation in the U.S. Constitution has significant flaws because of the original tension between sovereign state interests, and the federal system. We're not learning from the rest of the world very well, either.
I'm curious about whether Tilders think there's such a thing as positive nationalism, capable of both unifying localities and maintaining or growing what's good about a culture in the face of potentially hostile competing nations.
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Do you think there are positive aspects to nationalism, and if so, what?
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Do you think nationalism has been, on balance, a positive or negative force in your country in the past?
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Do you think nationalism is, on balance, a positive or negative force in your country right now?
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Do you think your country could have a positive version of nationalism in the future?
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Is it necessary to exclude or mitigate influences from elsewhere in order to maintain the original nature of your national culture?
If I may ask, please include your nationality when responding.
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Australian government lawyers warned the tax commissioner the controversial "robodebt" program could be illegal on the same day the Federal Government suspended the scheme
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US President Donald Trump acquitted of two impeachment charges in near party-line vote
28 votes -
When robbing Palestinians of their rights is called a 'peace plan'
9 votes -
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard
4 votes -
‘Edge of Democracy’ looks at Brazil with outrage and heartbreak
5 votes -
When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada's leaders have reached a new low
7 votes -
Why Democratic leaders still misunderstand the politics of social class
13 votes -
Finland's woman-led center-left government plans to nearly double the length of paternity leave to give new fathers the same amount of paid time off work as new mothers
16 votes -
Jair Bolsonaro government attacks Oscar nominee Petra Costa as 'anti-Brazil activist'
10 votes -
The far-right Bolsonaro movement wants us dead. But we will not give up
12 votes -
The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform
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Sanna Marin: ‘I feel that the American Dream can be achieved best in the Nordic countries, where every child no matter their background ... can become anything’
16 votes -
US primary elections explained
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How Brexit could reignite tensions at the Irish border
12 votes -
Donald Trump impeachment: Failed witnesses vote paves way for acquittal
35 votes -
Joe Biden says he will endorse any US Democrat who wins nomination
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South Dakota House passes bill which makes it a misdemeanor for doctors to provide puberty blockers or other treatments affecting gender expression to children under sixteen years old
21 votes -
US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak could bring back jobs to America
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E. Jean Carroll, who accused Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s, has made a legal demand for a DNA sample to compare against male DNA on her dress
13 votes