Public unions against the people
Opinion The weekend interview A new book argues that government unions have seized irresponsible power. The author, Philip Howard, plans to take the case to court.
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A tiny border town in Norway’s Arctic is one of Russia’s last links to Europe
Kirkenes, a Norwegian town of 10,000, lies just a short drive from the Russian border. People and goods still cross freely despite European sanctions against the Putin regime, and it is one of the few Western ports where Russian ships can still dock. Video and photography by Nathan VanderKlippe/The Globe and Mail In the year … Read more
A tiny border town in Norway’s Arctic is one of Russia’s last links to Europe
Kirkenes, a Norwegian town of 10,000, lies just a short drive from the Russian border. People and goods still cross freely despite European sanctions against the Putin regime, and it is one of the few Western ports where Russian ships can still dock. Video and photography by Nathan VanderKlippe/The Globe and Mail In the year … Read more
A tiny border town in Norway’s Arctic is one of Russia’s last links to Europe
Kirkenes, a Norwegian town of 10,000, lies just a short drive from the Russian border. People and goods still cross freely despite European sanctions against the Putin regime, and it is one of the few Western ports where Russian ships can still dock. Video and photography by Nathan VanderKlippe/The Globe and Mail In the year … Read more
We may never know how Russian Twitter trolls influenced the 2016 election
The 2016 presidential election will never die – or at least we’re doomed to debate it forever. Earlier this month NYU Center for Social Media and Politics published a study in Connection with nature this complicates one supposed element of Donald Trump’s rise: the influence of Russian Twitter trolls. The researchers studied approximately 1.2 billion … Read more
We may never know how Russian Twitter trolls influenced the 2016 election
The 2016 presidential election will never die – or at least we’re doomed to debate it forever. Earlier this month NYU Center for Social Media and Politics published a study in Connection with nature this complicates one supposed element of Donald Trump’s rise: the influence of Russian Twitter trolls. The researchers studied approximately 1.2 billion … Read more
Is political violence on the rise in America?
A defeated Republican candidate in New Mexico allegedly hired others to shoot down the houses of Democratic Party members, raising fears of political violence in America. But first, three new stories from Atlantic Ocean. Negative polarization Monday New Mexico Police arrested Solomon Peña, the Republican who, after losing his race for state representative last fall, … Read more
68 dead in Nepal’s worst plane crash in 30 years
Nepalese rescuers and civilians gather around the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed in Pokhara, Nepal on Sunday, January 15, 2023.Krishna Mani Baral/Associated Press At least 68 people died in the crash, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. A regional passenger plane carrying 72 passengers crashed into a gorge while landing at … Read more
America Is on the Right Track
Negativity is by now so deeply ingrained in American media culture that it’s become the default frame imposed on reality. In large part, this is because since the dawn of the internet age, the surest way to build an audience is to write stories that make people terrified or furious. This is not rocket science: … Read more
British court to decide if deportation flights to Rwanda can be resumed
London High Court judges will decide on Monday whether the British government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is legitimate as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stakes his future by stopping a record number of migrants arriving in small boats. Under an agreement signed in April, the UK intends to send tens of thousands of … Read more