“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself
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David Shor is telling US Democrats what they don’t want to hear
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When I ran for US President, it messed with my head
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For the United States, our constitutional crisis is already here
19 votes -
Norway's billionaires spent the election campaign smearing Rødt – but the party kept its focus and secured a historic electoral breakthrough
4 votes -
Iceland is voting in a general election that is expected to reflect the country's fragmented political landscape – nine parties could enter parliament
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As Angela Merkel prepares to leave office, many think Germany’s ‘golden age’ is over
10 votes -
No, you’re not ‘just asking questions.’ You’re spreading disinformation.
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Norwegian polls show Arbeiderpartiet is on course to replace PM Erna Solberg's coalition – would need support from Rødt and Miljøpartiet De Grønne to secure a majority
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Historic impeachment trial gets underway in Denmark against former MP Inger Støjberg who spearheaded dozens of tough immigration measures
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'Democracy for sale': Analysis ties corporate consolidation to increased lobbying
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Let’s not pretend that the way we withdrew from Afghanistan was the problem
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The Afghanistan withdrawal and Taliban takeover mean the terror threat is back
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Why the Quad alarms China
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Stonekettle Station - Bitter Pill
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South Africa’s descent into chaos
4 votes -
Envy
15 votes -
Why is critical race theory?
5 votes -
The FBI’s domestic “War on Terror” is an authoritarian power grab
6 votes -
Change mammals to viruses and bacteria
2 votes -
Fifteen podcasts episodes you have to hear
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Hungary formally lost access this week to over €200 million in grants from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein amid growing concerns about the country's democratic backsliding
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Japan moves (slowly) toward electoral reform (2016)
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In an effort to outflank the populist right, the ruling Social Democrats in Denmark have adopted one of the harshest refugee policies in the world
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Please recommend analytical, industry-specific blogs and newsletters
Hey all, I'm looking to expand my stable of long-form, "crunchy" reading material. I'll recommend three. ( I think I found all these through tildes.) Casey Handmer's Blog A blog about the new...
Hey all, I'm looking to expand my stable of long-form, "crunchy" reading material. I'll recommend three. ( I think I found all these through tildes.)
Casey Handmer's Blog
A blog about the new space industry with a specific focus on SpaceX and the industrialization of Mars.Construction Physics
A newsletter that analyses trends and data in the construction industry with a focus on modular construction.ACOUP
Essays about medieval and ancient history as well as their interaction with popular culture, with a focus on methods of production and common people in history.Another type of content I've really enjoyed is detailed breakdowns of zero-day vulnerabilities and large software catastrophies.
14 votes -
US quietly slips out of Afghanistan in dead of night
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Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans
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An introduction to budget reconciliation
2 votes -
The untold story of the big boat that broke the world
6 votes -
The Supreme Court’s newest Justices produce some unexpected results
15 votes -
How some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
14 votes -
Once a bastion of US free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis
14 votes -
Denmark is set to adopt legislation enabling it to open asylum centres outside Europe where applicants would be sent to live
6 votes -
Is gerrymandering about to become more difficult?
14 votes -
Inside the battle for Jerusalem
5 votes -
Far from gone: The evolution of extremism in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration
10 votes -
It turns out, all those 'woke' White allies were lying
28 votes -
The US has had a military presence in Greenland since 1941. A young new leader wants much more
9 votes -
Jon Stewart - It's Class Warfare - The Poor (and the rest of us) Have Lost (2010)
18 votes -
A new commission is investigating Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the pandemic — and political foes are gathering strength
12 votes -
James Carville on the state of Democratic politics
12 votes -
The United States is at risk of an armed anti-police insurgency
20 votes -
Kenan Malik: ‘By demonising asylum seekers, Denmark reflects a panic in social democracy’
8 votes -
Keir Starmer struggles to counter Boris Johnson’s ‘vaccine bounce’ as UK polls loom
5 votes -
Peace in Northern Ireland is fragile
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20 A useful thread:...
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20
A useful thread: https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379869873787002887?s=20
This is 1) heart-breaking and 2) very, very, worrying.
14 votes -
Andrew Yang’s Asian American superpower
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Denmark's socialist left needs to reverse the decline in working-class mobilization – mass-membership parties have been replaced by a professionalized media-political sphere
12 votes -
We selected 10,000 American neighborhoods at random. If we dropped you into one of them, could you guess how most people there voted?
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Finland's women-led government targeted by online harassment – the online attacks have left some female politicians afraid to speak out
14 votes -
Why America sucks at everything
14 votes