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The Monday arrest of Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun vividly demonstrated the intolerant and autocratic rule of President Xi Jinping that Xu so persuasively denounced in essays in recent years.
One of China’s most inspired voices for freedom has b...
DATE: Jul 08, 2020
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It should be no surprise that Donald Trump has chosen to centre his re-election campaign on appeals to racism and the demonisation of his opponents.
After all, that is what he did from the opening of his 2016 run with his invocation of Mexican immig...
DATE: Jul 08, 2020
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman once touted grandiose plans to float shares of the state oil company on the London or New York Stock Exchange and raise $100 billion.
This week, as the sale of shares in Saudi Aramco conclude, the results look ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2019
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The Chinese Government has insisted that the mass incarceration facilities in Xinjiang province in the far north-west of the country should not be called re-education or concentration camps, but rather vocational skills training centres.
To read the ...
DATE: Nov 28, 2019
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Ever since e-cigarettes began surging in popularity, they have posed a vexing problem: these nicotine-delivery devices may help some adults quit smoking, which is more dangerous than vaping, but also may addict non-smokers to nicotine, especially cur...
DATE: Sep 17, 2019
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Now that Donald Trump has pillaged $3.6 billion in congressionally approved military construction funds to pay for part of his border wall, the collateral damage is becoming clear.
That big update scheduled for the US Military Academy’s engineering ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2019
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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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