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Michigan conservatives hail protest success – and set sights on Trump’s re-election Protesters backed by rightwing donors believe their growing movement can ‘dwarf the Tea Party’ and keep Trump in the White House Protesters outside the state capitol in Lansing. The Michigan protest has sparked copycat rallies across the US. Photograph: Seth Herald/Reuters It started […] More
There is no point talking to Trump. We need to talk past him Jan-Werner Müller Governors, officials and Democrats should start proposing concrete plans to deal with the crisis. It’s time to build a ‘parallel polis’ ‘To provide alternative leadership – and real facts, as opposed to Trump’s mostly alternative facts – is not the […] More
The Guardian view on the EU and Covid-19: better late than never Editorial Europe is in the pandemic frontline but unity among the nations has been rare. That may be changing – not before time Ursula von der Leyen and the European commission have been tasked with creating a recovery fund alongside the EU’s next […] More
There is a general recognition that major problems and issues of our world — including understanding them and their causes and proposing remedies and coping strategies — are rarely simple in nature. Complexity theory and the long history of systems science, as exemplified by the work of such authorities as Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Talcott Parsons, Russ […] More
Some people in the US seem surprised that a form of cultural chaos is spreading far more rapidly than the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19. It’s the predictable consequence of three convergent phenomena: American individualism, the confrontational forms of expression it takes through social media, and the belief that the freedoms listed in the Bill […] More
In India, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government has a tendency for doing things like a “surgical strike.” In 2016, at just a few hours’ notice, Prime Minister Narendra Modi removed the 500 ($6.50) and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation. The move, known as demonetization, sent shockwaves throughout India and hit everyday citizens hard, particularly […] More
Play Video 1:58 Donald Trump prompted a backlash from medical experts after floating the idea that they could look into heat, light and injections of disinfectants as a cure for Covid-19. His public health advisers immediately played down the idea, and medics warn that trying such ideas could be fatal. Coronavirus response coordinator Dr Deborah Birx […] More
US governors seeking to relax public health restrictions on the activity of people and businesses are acting prematurely and risk inciting a second, more damaging wave of infections from the coronavirus pandemic, public health experts have warned. A wave of reopenings is set to spread across the south and midwest of the US, led by […] More
