US Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor slams appeals court and scolds fellow justices for ‘sowing chaos’ by allowing Texas to arrest and deport illegal crossers ~misc politics Article 909 words 23 votes
California, USA must triple its rate of carbon emissions reductions to reach 2030 target, report says ~enviro Link 16 votes
Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects ~enviro Article 862 words 13 votes
How foreign policy became a campaign issue for the 2024 US presidential election ~misc politics Article 1141 words 7 votes
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats ~tech social media Article 24 votes
Indian government to impose ban on import, sale, and cross-breeding of twenty-three ferocious dog breeds ~life.pets Article 686 words 15 votes
European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice ~enviro climate change Article 818 words 7 votes
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology ~tech Article 26 votes
Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time ~life Article 892 words 13 votes
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate ~tech social media Article 795 words 45 votes
European Commission accused of ‘bankrolling dictators’ by MEPs after Tunisia deal ~news tunisia politics Article 840 words 4 votes
India moves to implement controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims ~humanities religion Article 28 votes
Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably ~enviro sustainability Article 751 words 25 votes
Argentina president Javier Milei’s actions after taking office have research institutions facing shutdown. Scientists protest. ~science Article 881 words 18 votes
US Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan is fighting for an anti-monopoly America. Some say Khan – who’s gone after Kroger, Amazon, and Nvidia – has redefined the US antitrust landscape. ~finance Article 2042 words 36 votes
Analysis: Donald Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030 ~enviro climate change Article 3295 words 11 votes
How Turkey moved east – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the rise of an Anatolian foreign policy ~misc politics Article 3318 words, published Feb 19 2024 5 votes
Denmark's tough laws on begging hit Roma women with few other options – the Roma minority are heavily discriminated against across Europe ~life.women Article 21 votes
Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine ~enviro Article 1338 words 13 votes
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
Europe hopes barbed wire will keep migrants out. It won’t. ~misc politics Article 559 words, published Feb 29 2024 16 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
Canada to expedite approval of new nuclear projects, energy minister says ~enviro Article 937 words 19 votes
Climate deniers don't deny climate change any more. They do something worse. ~enviro climate change Video 18:31 65 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
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
Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy ~finance economics Article 9 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
Leasing like a state, or: public housing is development policy ~finance economics Article 1359 words 7 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
Germany's new cannabis law to pass this week and take effect in April ~news germany politics law Article 755 words 17 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
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