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7 votes
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 16
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
15 votes -
Global arms exports - trends, winners and losers of the race to rearm in 2025
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The women leaving the new right
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How the Netherlands bent bureaucracy into something beautiful
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US tariffs refunds: pick your poison
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An interview wth Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's finance minister, and former NATO secretary general
5 votes -
Iran hits Gulf energy sites, escalating war, as US mulls sanctions rollback
21 votes -
Norwegians voted against joining the EU in 1994 – now it's time to ask them again, said Ine Eriksen Søreide, leader of the country's conservative opposition party
12 votes -
Why we're going to Cuba
27 votes -
World Health Organization prepares for nuclear scenario, including weapons use, in Iran
16 votes -
California to rename Cesar Chavez Day as ‘Farmworkers Day’
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Mette Frederiksen's proposal to tax the super-rich and fund schools wins praise, as her handling of Greenland also boosts her standing – but not all Danish voters are convinced
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Water and sanitation in the developing world
5 votes -
Ukraine can now manufacture mostly China-free drones
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The four Nordic nations have for decades all followed a "total defence" strategy – since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Finland has taken a lead and greatly strengthened the concept
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A top US counterterrorism official resigns, citing the Iran war
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The Iran naval and economic war - Hormuz, energy exports and the end of the Iranian navy?
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The US border wall is back
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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story
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The US Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country?
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US Federal Communications Commission's Brendan Carr warns broadcasters on Iran reporting
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Russia goes offline
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The Uncensored Library - where censored words find a safe haven inside Minecraft
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 9
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
18 votes -
How a white nationalist club thought it found safe haven in a Montreal gym
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“This technology disrupts [...] Democratic—voters, [and] increases the economic power of [...] male, working-class voters”
24 votes -
Reducing Europe's nuclear energy sector was 'strategic mistake', EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says
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How would the actions of Hänsel and Gretel in the Grimm tale be interpreted in modern law?
12 votes -
China passes new ethnic minority law, prioritises use of Mandarin language
22 votes -
Chile turns right: José Antonio Kast inaugurated as nation's most conservative leader since Augusto Pinochet
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Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
37 votes -
Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Donald Trump officials and the US industries they help regulate
56 votes -
Armed robots take to the battlefield in Ukraine war
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Kristi Noem associate Madison Sheahan bought 2,500 marked vehicles for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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The Iran air and missile war - ballistic missiles, interceptors and munition stockpiles
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Canada is already at war with the US, we just don't know it yet
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Overnight explosion at the US embassy in Oslo may have been an act of terrorism, Norway's police have said
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“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana syndrome disappear
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 2
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
22 votes -
Why New Zealand, the safe haven for wealthy Americans, is seeing an exodus of over-30s
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Israel strikes oil facilities in Iran
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At the largest US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention camp, staff bet on detainee suicides
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The joys of cash benchmarking
11 votes -
Four years of war in Ukraine - the battlefield balance, losses and counterattacks
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The nature of personalist regimes in both fiction and the real world
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Finland plans to lift its long-standing ban on having nuclear weapons on its territory – would align the country more closely with NATO's deterrence policy
9 votes -
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen has advocated for reinstating a tax on the country's largest fortunes – proposal has faced strong criticism from business leaders and the right before upcoming elections
18 votes -
Kristi Noem removed from position as Secretary of US Homeland Security by Donald Trump
56 votes -
US support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement reaches 50%
47 votes