Tag: politics

• Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok

  November 29, 2020

  Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture.  “It’s… more ›

• Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy

  November 22, 2020

  In an exclusive interview, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment, explains why he’s still hopeful, and opens up about his new book. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/why-obama-fears-for-our-democracy/617087/ more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›

• Far right seizing COVID-19 ‘opportunity’ to expand: Study

  November 20, 2020

  Far-right individuals in Europe and the United States are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by… more ›

• Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix

  November 11, 2020

  In its first report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo said that it was involved in 18 crashes and 29 near-miss collisions during 2019 and the first… more ›

• State of Surveillance

  November 11, 2020

  In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›

• How Ant Group built a $200 billion financial empire

  November 10, 2020

  Ant Group, a Chinese financial technology company, is reportedly looking to raise a record-breaking $30 billion dollars in an initial public offering later this year. The current IPO fundraising record… more ›

• Ant man

  November 10, 2020

  Three months ago, a screenshot went viral across the Chinese internet. It was supposedly a scene of Alibaba employees gossiping about an eruption of cheers from an office building owned… more ›

• Michael Sandel: ‘The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit’

  November 8, 2020

  Michael Sandel was 18 years old when he received his first significant lesson in the art of politics. The future philosopher was president of the student body at Palisades high… more ›

• A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes : The Complete Listing (So Far) : Atrocities : 954

  October 31, 2020

  To be read before the 2020 Presidential Election. Register to vote, or check to make sure you’re registered to vote here. To download a PDF of this entire list, click… more ›