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17 votes
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China allows couples to have three children
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Denmark's secret service helped the US spy on European politicians including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014
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Half of all US adults are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19
17 votes -
Joe Biden's budget proposal: President sets for out $6tn spending plan
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 24
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10 votes -
The exorcists who are battling Black Lives Matter - Across the country, right-wing Catholic clerics are weaponizing their rites to own the libs
10 votes -
Inside the battle for Jerusalem
5 votes -
Florida has passed an unconstitutional law to allow suing and fining social media companies (except ones that also own theme parks) for censoring users or de-platforming politicians
20 votes -
The fight to whitewash US history: At least fifteen states are trying to ban schools from teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. The reactionary movement stretches back to the 1920s.
18 votes -
Cancel culture and critical race theory
8 votes -
Far from gone: The evolution of extremism in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration
10 votes -
$45 billion in US rent relief was seen as the solution to a possible wave of evictions. It ran headfirst into reality.
10 votes -
Samoa elected its first female leader. Parliament locked her out.
9 votes -
US White House offers GOP reduced $1.7 trillion dollars infrastructure plan in attempt to compromise
10 votes -
The US has had a military presence in Greenland since 1941. A young new leader wants much more
9 votes -
The slanted text in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s logo, and its break from the traditional red, white and blue color palette, has formed a new graphical language for progressivism
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 17
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7 votes -
Chileans head to polls to pick architects of new constitution
7 votes -
Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 10
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10 votes -
We found Joe Biden’s secret Venmo. Here’s why that’s a privacy nightmare for everyone.
17 votes -
My strange, slow, twenty-year quest for broadband
12 votes -
Bertrand Russell’s ‘scientific’ philosophy was a bulwark against nationalism
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 3
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9 votes -
Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms?
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Armed doesn't mean dangerous: Black gun owners are often portrayed negatively. One photographer set out to change that.
20 votes -
The Hume Paradox: How great philosophy leads to dismal politics
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Jon Stewart - It's Class Warfare - The Poor (and the rest of us) Have Lost (2010)
18 votes -
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
30 votes -
The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
11 votes -
A third of Basecamp’s workers resign after a ban on talking politics
18 votes -
A new commission is investigating Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the pandemic — and political foes are gathering strength
12 votes -
Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney
14 votes -
California could be the first state to allow adults to add parents to health care plans
8 votes -
Joe Biden told trans youth "Your president has your back." Trans people need more than just words right now.
6 votes -
UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year, with the industry warning that hundreds of crew members will be left out of work
8 votes -
James Carville on the state of Democratic politics
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What are some examples of times when sanctions "worked"?
The US, EU and assorted allies have gradually gotten into the habit, in recent decades, of using targeted sanctions (a lot) against both individuals and govts when the targets do something the...
The US, EU and assorted allies have gradually gotten into the habit, in recent decades, of using targeted sanctions (a lot) against both individuals and govts when the targets do something the West does not approve of.
Do they work? Do they help?
I think Obama-era sanctions on Iran played a part in getting Iran to at least consider the nuclear accord that Trump promptly renigged on ... but I also think Rouhani also wanted to develop a better relationship w/the US (and I'm sure he had at least grudging support from the Ayatollah), and gladly used the sanctions as the justification for speaking to the Great Satan.
Details aside, I think sanctions helped in that case. I can't think of any other examples where they were effective in helping achieve their intended effects.
OTOH, I think aggressive sanctions against North Korea have, at best, done no good at all, and have probably made the situation worse.
Any other successes come to mind?
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With a budget cut of 95%, the already-delayed 2021 Census in Brazil is being canceled entirely
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 26
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 19
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9 votes -
Dutch MPs in video conference with deep fake imitation of Alexei Navalny's Chief of Staff
11 votes -
The art of slogans: MATH, Google Andrew Yang, Humanity First, and A New Way Forward
11 votes -
Gearbox threatens to leave Texas over anti-trans bill
27 votes -
Our miserable 21st century
8 votes -
Foxconn and Wisconsin have amended their contract to reflect a $672 million investment, instead of the $10 billion promised in 2017
17 votes -
Walter Mondale, Vice President of the Carter administration and 1984 Democratic candidate for president dies at 93
8 votes -
UN experts condem UK race report
6 votes -
The United States is at risk of an armed anti-police insurgency
20 votes