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“If you want to beat me for my heartfelt birthday poem, come and find me at my home ... I refuse to be gagged,” wrote firebrand Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi in a poem she posted on Facebook last September that condemned Uganda’s “aborted” democracy...
DATE: Aug 08, 2019
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In the halcyon days of the internet, a vision took hold that in a vast global network, no single point could control. Rather, the internet would flow like water around obstacles. Tim Berners-Lee, a web pioneer, said it was originally intended to be a...
DATE: Jul 04, 2019
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Unable to deliver a Brexit deal acceptable to both the European Union and to her own Conservative Party, which dominates Parliament, Theresa May announced her resignation as Prime Minister of Britain on Friday.
She will leave behind a divided country...
DATE: May 27, 2019
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In state after state, the Catholic Church has fought a rearguard action to shield itself from lawsuits by adults abused as children at the hands of priests who were protected from repercussions by the church hierarchy over the course of decades. That...
DATE: Apr 08, 2019
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Here’s a question for US Attorney-General William Barr: why has the FBI, which falls under your purview, sat for nearly 16 months on the unwarranted killing of an unarmed young accountant shot to death by US Park police officers just outside Washingt...
DATE: Mar 07, 2019
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I’m wondering about R. Kelly.” That is the question that was posed to the Chicago police sex crimes unit by a journalist who had received an anonymous fax urging him to look into the R&B singer’s alleged misbehaviour with girls and young women. “Oh. ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2019
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The latest online craze in China are short videos — ten or 15-second snippets, whimsical, artistic and otherwise, made and distributed with increasing creativity and popularity. China’s massive censorship machine is not far behind.
The authorities is...
DATE: Jan 14, 2019
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The Trump Administration has now served notice that, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put it, the United States will no longer “bury our head in the sand” about Russia’s violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a 1987 pact that eli...
DATE: Dec 11, 2018
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The Senate voted on Saturday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after one of the most contentious nomination battles in history and by the slimmest margin for a justice in the modern era.
Now, difficult as this seems, it will be up to t...
DATE: Oct 08, 2018
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The weekend brought yet another reason that Republicans should ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reopen its background probe into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Deborah Ramirez, a Yale University classmate of Kavanaugh’s, claimed in ...
DATE: Sep 26, 2018
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