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8 votes
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As Putin ages, he seems to want to decentralize the Russian government
2 votes -
Explosive whistleblower complaint by ousted HHS official says he was pressured to give contract to Trump-friendly pharma firm
11 votes -
Did the coronavirus kill ideology in Australia? How a government both sectarian and divisive learned (briefly) to become inclusive
5 votes -
Hospitals in Brazil's São Paulo 'near collapse'
9 votes -
Imperialism is using up the resources that could fight Covid-19
4 votes -
Are older voters turning away from Trump?
10 votes -
Lesotho's prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder
4 votes -
Grading the electoral college: C for chaos
4 votes -
The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.
4 votes -
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book
9 votes -
The GOP is the problem. Is ‘human identity politics’ the solution? (Book review of Ezra Klein’s 'Why We’re Polarized')
9 votes -
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted exploitative global trade regimes
9 votes -
The prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase
6 votes -
The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964)
5 votes -
The coronavirus in capitalist Russia: The Russian government has not only failed to effectively battle the emergency but has attempted to actively ignore it and the plight of its citizens
5 votes -
In defense of hellfire: The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice?
8 votes -
Rep. Justin Amash ends his third-party White House bid: Amash said the timing wasn’t right, in large part because of the coronavirus pandemic
6 votes -
Never Trumpers will host their own ‘Republican convention’ during the RNC
12 votes -
Would it be beneficial to ban certain topics of political discourse?
I've noticed that there are certain topics (specifically political ones) that reoccur frequently on this site, which almost never contribute anything of value. These can derail threads, incite...
I've noticed that there are certain topics (specifically political ones) that reoccur frequently on this site, which almost never contribute anything of value. These can derail threads, incite hostility between users, push away new users, etc. IMO it is rare that anything new is said, and even rarer that any opinions are changed. Examples include: socialism vs capitalism; should real leftists vote for Biden?; is Biden a rapist?; are Bernie supporters toxic?; etc. I'm not saying these aren't important things to discuss (I've done so myself), but is it really necessary for us to have the exact same arguments basically every day? I personally feel the site would be nicer to use and less toxic overall if these discussions didn't happen. Would there be any downside to simply banning them, at least temporarily? Perhaps until after the US presidential election?
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Rep. Justin Amash “looking closely” at third-party run in US presidential election
14 votes -
US State Department Inspector General fired after investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’
9 votes -
California police used military surveillance tech at grad student strike
11 votes -
I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl
11 votes -
Bolsonaro's health minister quits, deepening Brazil coronavirus crisis
9 votes -
In key US state of Florida, Trump stumbles among senior voters: Trump has virtually no path to victory without winning Florida, and older voters - which he is losing - are critical
5 votes -
Reflections on the Bernie Campaign: What it meant, why it inspired us, why we lost, and where we go now
5 votes -
Biden names Ocasio-Cortez, Kerry to lead his climate task force, bridging Democrats’ divide
13 votes -
The fight is on for progressives to push Biden to the left. They might just win.
9 votes -
How the Singaporean government solved its housing problem
6 votes -
The roots of the October Revolution in Iraq: From October 2019 until the lockdown in March, Iraqi revolutionaries from working-class backgrounds defied state repression to fill the squares of Iraq
3 votes -
US Senate approves bill to sanction China over Uighur rights
10 votes -
As COVID-19 gets worse, Trump is talking about things that the average American couldn't care less about
10 votes -
Stop trying to shame socialists into voting for Joe Biden: It’s really about performatively denouncing leftists as irresponsible, for the edification of the liberals who are watching
19 votes -
Raging at China over coronavirus won't help – scrutinising our own governments might
7 votes -
How to argue with your comrades: it’s easy for socialists to blame our own comrades for our defeats. But those losses are more rooted in the powerful structures we’re up against than our own failures
8 votes -
US Appeals court rules against Donald Trump on Emoluments Clause
9 votes -
It's no accident Britain and America are the world's biggest coronavirus losers
14 votes -
Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s extension of stay-at-home order
13 votes -
Bernie Sanders says another US presidential run is 'very, very unlikely'
10 votes -
What to make of those new US Senate polls that have Democrats way ahead
12 votes -
How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
6 votes -
Anatomy of an internet shutdown
7 votes -
Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden
4 votes -
A few articles on the Polish elections' breakdown
Poland 'holds' ghost election with 0% turnout (mostly explains what and who led up to this.) Opposition 'slams' presidential election by post (citing lack of preparation, mostly.) Polish election...
Poland 'holds' ghost election with 0% turnout (mostly explains what and who led up to this.)
Opposition 'slams' presidential election by post (citing lack of preparation, mostly.)
Polish election delayed indefinitely with just 4 days to go (mostly the same as the first article, but also cites how the later these elections are held, the worse Duda (current Polish president) 's chances unsurprisingly become.)
Race to the bottom: all Polish election outcomes are bad [opinion article] (a short analysis on the possibility routes the election could have taken. Admittedly somewhat outdated given the elections have clearly been postponed.
Related article: Poland's ruling party just made it's anti-democratic intention radically clear (tl;dr they're really invested in 'illiberal democracy', not too unlike the Republican party.)
6 votes -
#DemocracyRIP: What the Russian government did to the 2016 elections in the US was just the beginning
9 votes -
China has imposed an import ban on four Australian abattoirs in an apparent escalation of Beijing's trade war tactics
7 votes -
Famine is a choice. One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability
5 votes -
Pandemic has shown Australians we have less in common with the US than we thought
8 votes -
The four men responsible for America’s COVID-19 test disaster
6 votes