Preparing for war, social unrest or a new pandemic? Chinese companies are raising militias like it’s the 1970s.
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Why joining a club is good for democracy
11 votes -
The hottest trend in US cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing.
42 votes -
Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters
10 votes -
Why Joe Biden matters
26 votes -
A lesson on US crime policy from game designers: Change the rules
12 votes -
The 355 million dollar US civil fraud ruling against Donald Trump, annotated
30 votes -
Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
94 votes -
Demonstrators claim lack of affordable housing in Gaeltacht region threatens the survival of the Irish language
13 votes -
FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian energy company
46 votes -
Parkland mass shooting victims send AI robocalls to NRA-supporting US politicians
29 votes -
What if US public housing were for everyone?
29 votes -
Early results suggest Prabowo Subianto on track to win Indonesia presidential race
7 votes -
Authorities in Medellín will meet representatives of embassies and popular dating apps this week after five foreigners were found dead in Colombia’s second city in the past seven days
15 votes -
Senators ask CEOs why their drugs cost so much more in the US
60 votes -
Forget technocrats - let's get some realitycrats
9 votes -
Finland's conservative former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has won Sunday's presidential election, final results show
9 votes -
The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes
23 votes -
US grocery stores should cut prices as costs ease, Joe Biden White House says
29 votes -
Family of Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus, imprisoned in Iran for more than 663 days, fear death penalty verdict is imminent
17 votes -
US federal appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity
82 votes -
Geert Wilders’ hopes of becoming Dutch PM dim after centrist party quits talks
13 votes -
Megathread - Update on state court cases challenging legality of Donald Trump candidacy under the 14th amendment section 3 of the US constitution
45 votes -
The GOP dog caught the car. Again.
24 votes -
At least six Kurdish fighters are killed in a drone attack on a Syrian base housing US troops
13 votes -
US Republican congressman from Georgia jokes about dropping migrant from helicopters echoing extreme right Pinochet meme about political violence
17 votes -
Secretive US right wing advocacy group promotes model legislation to limit public nuisance claims like those responsible for tobacco and opioid verdicts
18 votes -
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries
19 votes -
A partisan solution to partisan gerrymandering
21 votes -
NGOs allowed to seize €2.9 million from Belgian government for failure to shelter asylum seekers
13 votes -
American airstrikes hit eighty-five targets at seven facilities in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia used to attack US forces
39 votes -
US Senator Bernie Sanders set to interrogate pharma executives about prices
33 votes -
Days of darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions
32 votes -
Finland has rejected the far right, but is the country ready for a gay, Green head of state in Pekka Haavisto?
8 votes -
An AI-generated image of a Victorian MP raises wider questions on digital ethics
9 votes -
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA meltdown
37 votes -
EU leaders approve €50 billion deal for Ukraine after Viktor Orbán lifts his veto
21 votes -
What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account
33 votes -
For the sixth year in a row, Denmark heads the Corruption Perceptions Index, with a score of ninety – Finland and New Zealand follow closely behind
7 votes -
Prediction markets have an elections problem
9 votes -
United States to return to staging nuclear weapons in UK
27 votes -
Alexander Stubb won the first round of Finland's presidential election and will face runner-up Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month
6 votes -
Palm Springs capped Airbnb rentals. Now some home prices are in free-fall.
49 votes -
‘America is under attack’: Inside the anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion crusade
27 votes -
Donald Trump and the nightmare of tyranny lurking within the American dream
27 votes -
Specter of academic plagiarism has now reached the heart of Norwegian politics, toppling one government minister and leaving a second fighting for her political career
10 votes -
The story of the New Hampshire primary in one voter
19 votes -
China’s age of malaise
14 votes -
Canada announces cap on international students for next two years
29 votes -
Turkey's parliament votes to let Sweden join NATO
36 votes