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As 100,000 die, the virus lays bare America’s brutal fault lines – race, gender, poverty and broken politics The New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan in March, a week after New York put its lockdown in place. Photograph: Jordan Gale/The Guardian The US’s brutal fault lines – of race, partisanship, gender, poverty and misinformation – […] More
Review planned of law that protects social media firms from responsibility for users’ content Donald Trump has threatened to take action against social media companies after Twitter tagged two of his tweets with a fact-check warning. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a law that has long protected Twitter, […] More
Donald Trump remained silent on the death of more than 100,000 Americans from Covid-19 as the US mourned the milestone, and South Korea considered a return to further restrictions after recording its biggest one-day increase in nearly two months. The president made no comment on Twitter about the momentous day, but used the platform to […] More
In March 2015, the unexpected newly elected president of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, stated that the national anthem could be sung in Tamil at official and institutional events. For anyone alien to life on the teardrop island, this announcement may have come as a surprise since, after all, Tamil and Sinhala are the two official […] More
In May 2019, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling on Britain to return the Chagos Archipelago, a cluster of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, an island nation off the southeast coast of Africa. The resolution endorsed an International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) advisory opinion that had been […] More
Twitter added warning on tweets that spread falsehoods President vows to ‘strongly regulate … or close them down’ As his election-year polling numbers have deteriorated, however, Trump has grown increasingly wild in his threats against media organizations and the voting system. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Donald Trump has threatened to “strongly regulate” or close down social media […] More
For much of the past decade, radical right-wing populism in the Netherlands has largely been associated with Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV). Following in the footsteps of the late Pim Fortuyn, Wilders established himself as one of Western Europe’s most outspoken promoters of anti-Islamic rhetoric, whose often outrageous and inflammatory rants exerted […] More
Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general of the United States, made an announcement on March 23 warning Americans of the mounting death rate likely to occur over the next few weeks as COVID-19 spreads throughout the country. He remarked that “this is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment.” By these references, […] More
