Mexican president passes coronavirus buck to allies, rivals, business ~health Article 592 words 8 votes
Bernie Sanders says Joe Biden "has advocated cutting Social Security for forty years" - Mostly false ~misc politics Article 1509 words 10 votes
What if Andrew Yang was right? Mitt Romney has joined the chorus of voices calling for all Americans to receive free money directly from the government ~finance economics Article 565 words 21 votes
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content ~tech social media Article 2653 words 21 votes
Fact check: Joe Biden has advocated cutting Social Security for forty years ~news usa politics Article 2554 words, published Jan 13 2020 5 votes
US President Donald Trump says he could demote Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, risking more market turmoil ~finance Article 6 votes
Can you guess how popular these policy proposals are among the American public? ~misc politics Article 450 words 10 votes
The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified ~health Article 845 words 29 votes
How Denmark's 'ghetto list' is ripping apart migrant communities – cities are planning mass housing evictions in a 'social experiment' to encourage integration ~life housing Article 1501 words 7 votes
Denmark needs to adopt a number of emergency measures, including higher carbon taxes, if it's to reach a goal of drastically cutting emissions by 2030 ~enviro climate change Link 4 votes
Over the past year, 34-year-old pastor Mark Lee Dickson has convinced twelve towns in Texas to pass ordinances banning abortion. For women in those towns, fear and confusion reigns. ~health Article 3219 words, published Mar 2 2020 7 votes
After launching its feminist foreign policy, Sweden is now pushing for a feminist trade policy and wants the initiative to be on the agenda at the upcoming WTO summit ~misc politics Link 4 votes
Andrew Yang’s new US non-profit is giving away $500,000 in free cash as a UBI experiment ~news usa politics Article 376 words 23 votes
How Sweden is fixing the housework gender gap – do Swedish-style tax breaks for cleaners provide a solution or perpetuate gender-role norms? ~life relationships Article 2180 words 6 votes
Progressives' foreign policy dillemma ~misc politics Article 3197 words, published Sep 12 2019 3 votes
Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths ~health Link 5 votes
Controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have been thrown into doubt after a court ruling ~transport Article 611 words 8 votes
Trump faces his 'Chernobyl moment' after slashing pandemic defences to the bone ~health Article 265 words 12 votes
Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans ~enviro climate change Article 446 words 5 votes
Finnish government has agreed to take in up to 175 asylum-seekers from camps in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta to alleviate the humanitarian situation in the Mediterranean ~news finland cyprus greece italy malta Article 222 words 8 votes
‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges Congress to plan for recessions ~finance Article 1020 words 7 votes
Now that Sweden has called a halt to its five-year trial with negative interest rates the serious work has begun on looking at whether it worked ~finance economics Article 2132 words 7 votes
Finnish government has proposed that primary care nurse visits become free of charge ~health healthcare Article 307 words 5 votes
The world's lowest interest rate may soon be raised in Denmark – new forecasts were triggered by the exchange rate ~finance economics Article 4 votes
Finland blazes trail in keeping citizens cycling and healthy – country routinely praised for its schools system aims to do the same with preventive health ~health fitness Article 1023 words 4 votes
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard ~news norway.svalbard russia politics Link 4 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 ~life parenting family Article 178 words 16 votes
A ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest, under government plans ~transport Article 994 words 9 votes
Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the punishing signal to curb noise pollution ~transport Article 368 words 13 votes
An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council] ~enviro Article 1548 words 4 votes
Universal Basic Income explained – free money for everybody? UBI ~finance Video 10:06, published Dec 7 2017 4 votes
Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating ~finance economics Article 290 words 4 votes
Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic ~enviro climate change Article 591 words 7 votes
Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state ~life Link 8 votes
Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan ~enviro climate change Article 7 votes
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on the year ahead: ‘A lot of things have to go right’ ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 1793 words 10 votes
Utah has voted to ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy for children, becoming the 19th US state to outlaw the discredited practice ~lgbt Article 333 words 18 votes
Denmark's government wants a planned bridge over the Kattegat sea between Aarhus and Copenhagen to carry trains as well as cars, more than doubling the cost ~transport Link 6 votes
Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance ~humanities.history Article 475 words 13 votes
Denmark's 'ghetto plan' and the communities it targets – residents of largely Muslim neighbourhoods face increased penalties for crimes and 'Danish values' lessons for children ~life housing Article 2616 words 12 votes
The Australian government has been forced to talk about climate change, so it’s taking a subtle – and sinister – approach ~enviro climate change Article 1167 words 11 votes