#POLITICAL

Ammar Ali Jan

ammaralijan

It reflects poorly on progressives when they dismiss leaders like Benazir Bhutto as representatives of "feudals" or "dynastic politics." She suffered the loss of her entire family, faced incarceration and

Stephen Robinson

SER1897

The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery also nullified the 3/5ths rule, so the former Confederate states had greater congressional representation and more Electoral College votes. This would increase their political power

Michael Dougan

mdouganlpool

UK propaganda is so tedious. Johnson tore up own political agreement on EU-UK negotiations; turned up with new bunch of red lines & demands; refused extension to transition despite onset

Steve Lieber

steve_lieber

Now that 45 is in the rear view mirror, let’s take a moment to appreciate @ReutersBarria. I’ve said it elsewhere but his photos are as biting as the best political

Sergi Pardos

sergipardos

Will Covid bring Trump down today? @AnjaNeundorf and I just fielded a survey experiment in the US, and it looks like it might. 2 main takes: older voters strongly react

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

imo a useful gut-check is to imagine a world in which there is no such thing as “developers” but there are still plumbers, carpenters, electricians, architects, etc profiting from the

Alessio Patalano

alessionaval

China's 100-day push near Senkaku Islands comes at unsettling time for Sino-Japanese ties | This is a very good albeit rather long article. It has comments from lots of your

Timothy Huyer

tim4hire

There’s a lot going on in Mr Poilievre’s video, but let me unpack a little on his concerns regarding quantitative easing and his claims that wealthy investors are profiting on

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parlerhttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-show-of-monopolistic In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipu

Brady Shearer

BradyShearer

Hey, I know this pandemic has been tough on a lot of us, and I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but:You’re not being persecuted. And I won’t

Ezra Klein

ezraklein

America's only been a stable, real democracy since the 1960s, with the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. The roots are shallow. The idea that its survival

Qaiser Ijaz ☭

eQaiserIjaz

A Red Thread on Marxism & ReligionFrequently Asked Questions:Is communism atheism?Are communists atheists?Is communism anti-religion?Do I have to leave my religion in order to join a communist party?Starting from Karl

Allison Bailey

BluskyeAllison

1/ On this auspicious day, let’s all remind ourselves of what Mr Justice Julian Knowles said of Professor Kathleen Stock, now OBE, in Harry Miller v The College of Policing

Kaitlyn Schiess

KaitlynSchiess

I know it would make us feel better to think the evangelical political mess exists primarily on Twitter/angry blogs/ because of famous megachurch pastors, but I can tell you from

Irish Political Maps

IrishPolMaps

A THREAD ON ELECTORAL POLITICS: Two old maps here from 2015 and 2018. Both the culminations of long-running, people-driven campaigns which began and grew outside electoral politics - for a

EFTA 4 UK

EFTA4UK

Every major trading nation has close bilateral trading relationships with their regional neighbours. That is a statement of geographical and political reality. Without such relationships in the trading environment of

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