Year: 2020

A new report from Pew Research makes an attempt to better understand U.S. adults who get their news largely from social media platforms, and compare their understanding of current events and political knowledge to those who use other sources, like TV, radio, and news publications. The top-level finding, according to Pew, is that social media…

Jul 30th 2020There were fears in Europe of a resurgence of covid-19. Catalonia returned to a form of lockdown. Britain announced that people arriving from Spain, including British tourists coming back from the beach, should quarantine for 14 days. The Spanish government was irked. Croatia, Germany, Luxembourg and Romania all saw localised spikes of coronavirus.…

Jul 23rd 2020After intense wrangling, the heads of government in the European Union agreed to a €750bn ($869bn) stimulus package. The negotiations were even more tricky than usual, though the outcome was hailed as a breakthrough. It is the first time the EU as a bloc will issue bonds on a huge scale to back…

Jul 25th 2020After intense wrangling, the heads of government in the European Union agreed to a €750bn ($869bn) stimulus package. The negotiations were even more tricky than usual, though the outcome was hailed as a breakthrough. It is the first time the EU as a bloc will issue bonds on a huge scale to back…

In early February, Taiwan had a mask supply problem. Howard Wu, a 35-year-old software engineer, watched as Covid-19-induced stress levels rose in his social media feeds. Friends and family were swamping LINE, Taiwan’s most popular messaging app, with up-to-the-minute reports saying which local convenience stores still had masks in stock—or were completely out. So Wu…

Coronavirus latest news: Care home visits can resume in England, Government announces ​Labour agrees to pay ‘substantial damages’ to Panorama film’s anti-Semitism whistleblowers Jeremy Corbyn deserves to lose the whip, but it would plunge Labour into its worst civil war yet Revealed: The parts of Portugal where we could get regional air bridges from Monday Russia…

Image copyright EPA Singapore may be one of the world’s wealthiest and “smartest” countries, but there’s one thing it has never had, until now – an official opposition party. After a recent surprising election, change is in the air, writes the BBC’s Sharanjit Leyl. On 10 July, voters wearing masks stood in socially distanced queues…

Up until a few years ago, Abigail Reed’s politics were in line with those of her parents. She understood their point of view, and she followed it. Then Reed, a recent high school graduate from Indianapolis who is headed to college in a few weeks, started thinking for herself. She started having conversations with people…

Libreria Acqua Alta is Instagram famous. More than 30,000 people have tagged themselves visiting the enchanting bookstore, but unlike other popular buildings in Venice, Libreria Acqua Alta isn’t a church or canalside palazzo. It’s quintessentially Venice in another way: It’s designed to outsmart the floods that have plagued the city for centuries.Inside you’ll find books…

When Ricardo Alvarado went grocery shopping this week, he had a list of items to buy, but he steered clear of anything from Goya Foods. “I was using their beans, but I found a different brand,” he said. “I switched olive oil, too, and I bought my own spices, not theirs.”A performing artist based in…

Jul 18th 2020Donald Trump signed an executive order ending Hong Kong’s privileged trading status with America, in response to China’s imposition of a crushing national-security law. Under new legislation, banks aiding officials who implement the law may face sanctions, as may the officials. See article.Separately, China announced sanctions against American officials, including Marco Rubio and…

(CNN)”I leave elective office with my integrity in tact,” Jeff Sessions said Tuesday night following his rout at the hands of former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville in a runoff for the Alabama Republican Senate nomination. “This chapter of my life is closed.”Sessions didn’t name the chapter that had just closed but, if he…

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at McGregor Industries on July 09, 2020 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania.Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)On Tuesday, Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden released a major update to his climate plan. It has a big splashy number—$2 trillion over four years—and some solid policies. It shows, definitively, that progressives are winning…

Roxanne Jones, a founding editor of ESPN Magazine and former vice president at ESPN, has been a producer, reporter and editor at the New York Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jones is co-author of “Say it Loud: An Illustrated History of the Black Athlete.” She talks politics, sports and culture weekly on Philadelphia’s 900AM…

Jul 11th 2020Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has downplayed the threat of covid-19, flouted social-distancing guidelines and said that his “athletic history” would protect him, tested positive for the coronavirus.Luis Abinader, a businessman from the centre-left Modern Revolutionary Party, won the Dominican Republic’s presidential election. His victory ends 16 years of rule by the Dominican…

Something about Stateless doesn’t sit right.  Debuting globally on Netflix today (following its Australian broadcasting premiere in March), the six-part limited series paints a moving portrait of immigration detention in Australia. One of the world’s largest refugee safe havens, Australia has long grappled with a human rights crisis similar to that of the United States…

CLOSE Donald Trump’s push to reopen schools comes amid a nationwide debate over whether it’s safe for children to return to the classroom amid coronavirus. USA TODAYCoronavirus cases are soaring across the country and some states are pausing the reopening of their economies. Still, pressure is mounting to reopen schools full-time this fall — and it’s…

New Jersey is holding a number of contentious Democratic primary elections Tuesday that could have national implications.  Three key House races could test the strength of New Jersey’s Democratic machine, one of the most powerful in the country, as it reckons with a revolt from reformers backed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D).  The…

Mark Whitaker, the former managing editor of CNN, is the author of “My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir” and “Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance.” The opinions expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. (CNN)When I heard the stunning news that Princeton University was removing the name…

Jul 4th 2020Police in Hong Kong made the first arrests under a draconian national-security law imposed from Beijing. Hong Kongers can now be jailed for life for vaguely defined crimes such as “subversion” or “conspiring” with anyone abroad to provoke “hatred” of the communist regime. Mainland secret police can now operate in Hong Kong. America’s…

“We should have a study of those bases and why they were named,” Scott said. July 1, 2020, 7:57 PM7 min read Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said that Congress should proceed with legislation that calls for a study into military bases named after figures of the Confederacy, despite the fact that President Donald Trump threatened…

The level of activism that came after George Floyd’s death feels more impactful than ever.We have already seen encouraging police reforms in response to protesters’ demands.Protesters’ ability to enact change will depend on whether they can set up an infrastructure beyond the barricades.Dana R. Fisher is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland.This…

The problems with American policing have been on display since the killing of George Floyd.Police have too often rejected reform and pushed to expand their budgets. Now this resistance to reform is coming back to bite police in the form of the defund the police movement.Hopefully the push will be an impetus for many police…

This is the next installment in the “Generation Resilient” series. Katie Heintz is a first-year at Harvard College, studying government with a secondary concentration in economics. Will Matheson is a junior at Harvard College, also studying government with a secondary concentration in economics. Both are student leaders at the Institute of Politics and have served…

Russia-linked accounts supported Kremlin infowar campaigns, China bots spread ‘deceptive’ claims about COVID and Hong Kong politics Twitter today says they’ve removed tens of thousands of accounts engaged in propaganda, linked to Russia, China and Turkey. Or as Twitter put it, “new state-linked information operations”, and it says “all associated accounts and content have been…

Jun 27th 2020Some states in the south and west of the United States recorded their biggest daily rise in cases of covid-19, bringing America’s total to over 2.3m. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, urged people to stay indoors. He also declared that the state remained “wide open for business”. California recorded new highs in…

Elie Honig is a CNN legal analyst and former federal and state prosecutor. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. Watch Honig answer readers’ questions on “CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera” at 5:40 p.m. ET Sundays. (CNN)The testimony of Aaron Zelinsky, a deputy to former special counsel Robert…

(CNN)After a delay for the coronavirus pandemic, New York voters will cast primary ballots on Tuesday. The attention of the national political world will be on New York’s 16th district, which spans the Bronx and Westchester County and where Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel has easily held his seat since 1988. But Engel faces his most…

When U.S. President Donald Trump touched down in Tulsa over the weekend for his first major campaign event in months, supporters were anticipating a defiant new chapter in his so-called “Death Star” re-election campaign. But hopes of a packed-to-the-gills venue thronging with adulating fans—the likes of which have become an unorthodox hallmark of the Trump…

(CNN)Every congressional leader seeking majority support follows the mantra: “When you have the votes, vote.” The sentiment applies to presidential politics, tooThat’s why President Donald Trump so strongly opposes easing voting procedures in response to fears of coronavirus this fall. Poll after poll makes plain that, less than five months before Election Day, Trump lacks…

Black Lives Matter protests spread across the country and the world after George Floyd was killed in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.Anti-racism is an effort to consciously work against systemic racism.To practice anti-racism, one must learn about how racial oppression and inequality have shaped the country’s history.Business Insider spoke with Samantha Sheppard,…

Jun 20th 2020Brazil reported a record 35,000 new cases of covid-19 in a day. Even that grim figure is widely regarded as an undercount. India is now recording tens of thousands of new infections each week. In America, Florida, Texas and Arizona set daily records for new cases. Although many places are easing lockdowns, Anthony…

Kentuckians are accustomed to bare-knuckled politics, but the brawl between a Republican congressman and his primary challenger has turned especially uglyBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated PressJune 17, 2020, 5:05 PM5 min readFRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentuckians are accustomed to bare-knuckled politics, but the Bluegrass State brawl between a Republican congressman and his primary challenger has turned especially…

By Nicole Gallucci2020-06-15 11:51:03 -0700 The 2003 jam, “Mr. Brightside,” hits different in 2020. Amidst protests against police brutality and the coronavirus quarantine life, people have started finding new meaning in the lyrics to The Killers’ early song about getting cheated on. Perhaps you know “Mr. Brightside” as a go-to karaoke selection for anyone looking…

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The coronavirus pandemic, protests over police killings and systemic racism, and a contentious election have created the perfect storm for misinformation on social media.  But don’t expect AI to save us. Twitter’s recent decision to red-flag President Donald Trump’s false claims about mail-in ballots has reinvigorated the debate on whether social media platforms should fact-check…

Fauci says his advice for protests, campaign rallies is the same.June 12, 2020, 7:15 PM8 min read Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Friday that his advice for people who want to attend President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies is the same for anti-Trump protestors — any large group is “a danger” and…

CPPrime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer are shown in a composite image of photos from The Canadian Press.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out swinging against Conservatives Thursday over his minority government’s failure to quickly pass emergency legislation to send financial aid to Canadians living with disabilities. “The Conservatives’ choice to put politics…

(CNN)One of the defining traits of President Donald Trump’s time in office has been the consistency of his poll numbers.No matter what he said, did or tweeted, his numbers stayed steady. Somewhere between 40-45% approved of the job he was doing while 50-55% disapproved.Which is why what Gallup reported in its latest tracking poll, released…

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump warned against labeling “tens of millions of decent Americans as racist or bigots” on Thursday during an event promoted as discussing “justice disparities” in Dallas, Texas.The roundtable did include faith leaders, law enforcement representatives, small business owners and senior members of the Trump administration. The President warned against blanket descriptions of…

Michael D’Antonio is the author of the book “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success” and co-author with Peter Eisner of “The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)The leaking ship that is the Trump presidency has a…

Jun 13th 2020Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced legislation to reform policing in America in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. The measures, which will be resisted in the Senate, would simplify the process for prosecuting officers for misconduct and curtail the “qualified immunity” law that shields them from civil lawsuits. Mr…

Image copyright AFP Image caption Gen Milley (R) was on the walk with the president, as was Defence Secretary Mark Esper (C) The top US military officer says he was wrong to have joined President Donald Trump during his controversial walk to a damaged church near the White House.The 1 June event created “a perception…

Police union and law enforcement PACs have given $15,000 to Sen. Amy Klobuchar since she took office in 2007, the Center for Responsive Politics reported.Sen. Patrick Leahy is the only senator to receive more money from such PACs. On a yearly basis, Klobuchar typically receives more money from those PACs than Leahy.Klobuchar has faced scrutiny over…

It’s crunch time in the offices of Naughty Dog, the storied videogame developer in Santa Monica, California. On the morning of February 6, more than 300 artists, designers, and programmers are assembled in a maze of workstations, applying thousands of final micro-touches to a game they have been crafting for nearly six years called The…

CLOSERiverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, right, with Riverside City Police Chief Sergio G. Diaz, center, and a California Highway Patrol officer at the scene of an investigation in 2019. (Photo: Terry Pierson, AP)Riverside County’s sheriff directs people to its web site to look at its department policies themselves — the board overseeing the agency agrees. And children…

Sen. Kamala Harris, a former Democratic presidential contender and potential vice presidential pick, spoke out Monday about her efforts to pass a federal anti-lynching bill, which will now be included in a new package of policing reforms being proposed by Senate and House Democrats in the wake of the George Floyd killing. She joined ABC’s…

Foreigners aren’t laughing at us. They pity and discount us. 6:30 AM ET Contributing writer at The Atlantic and President of the Carnegie Endowment The AtlanticMoments of national crisis ought to bring Americans together. Instead, led by a divisive president, our society is being ripped apart, as the country is battered by a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic…

(CNN)Just before 9 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted that he would be holding a “News Conference” to talk about the “Jobs Numbers!”He talked about the jobs numbers, all right, as well as how he might buy an RV and drive it around the country and how he is very physically fit.…

Jun 6th 2020Both riots and peaceful protests spread across America in response to the death of George Floyd. It was the country’s worst unrest for decades, prompting many states to call out the National Guard and cities to impose curfews. Looting accompanied the chaos; shops in midtown Manhattan were ransacked. The policeman who knelt on…

Jun 4th 2020Both riots and peaceful protests spread across America in response to the death of George Floyd. It was the country’s worst unrest for decades, prompting many states to call out the National Guard and cities to impose curfews. Looting accompanied the chaos; shops in midtown Manhattan were ransacked. The policeman who knelt on…

(CNN)The biggest choice of Joe Biden’s political life is being made for him — by his own gaffes and the ongoing protests over the murder of George Floyd: It now seems a near-certainty that he will (and should) name a black woman as his vice presidential running mate. Consider where we are as a country…

“This account will tweet what the President tweets,” Twitter account SuspendThePres posted on May 29. “Let’s see if it gets suspended for violating twitters [terms of service].” Approximately 68 hours later, SuspendThePres was suspended for violating Twitter’s rules against glorifying violence. This account will tweet what the President tweets. Let’s see if it gets suspended…

(CNN)On Monday night, after days of protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, President Donald Trump addressed the nation with a very simple message: I am tough as hell.”I am your President of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters,” Trump said. “Today, I have strongly recommended to every governor…

Image copyright VH1 Strip the format of RuPaul’s Drag Race back to its most basic and you’ve got a TV show about men competing to see who’s the best at twirling around while pretending to sing a song.But the 12th season has urged its US viewers to register to vote every week and made no…

May 30th 2020Protests erupted in Hong Kong after an announcement that the National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp parliament, would impose a national-security law on the territory. The demonstrations were also fuelled by a proposal in the city’s legislature to make insulting China’s national anthem a crime. Mike Pompeo, America’s secretary of state, said that the…

May 28th 2020A DECADE AFTER the last global downturn, the economics establishment’s U-turn on austerity is complete. In 2010 the IMF praised Britain’s tough deficit-reduction plan. Now it recommends a big fiscal expansion to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Politicians were once fond of citing research co-authored by Kenneth Rogoff, an economist, to warn that…

(CNN)On Tuesday afternoon, Twitter tried to strike a blow for truth.On one of President Donald Trump’s many misleading tweets about mail-in balloting, the social media company added a small tag that read: “Get the facts about mail-in ballots.” Click the link and it takes you to a Twitter page with facts about mail-in balloting –…

The psychologist shares his thoughts on the pandemic, polarization, and politics. 8:35 AM ET Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC Rob Kim / Getty / The AtlanticOver the past decade, no one has added more to my understanding of how we think about, discuss, and debate politics and religion than Jonathan…

Spring, if you’ve been quarantined inside and haven’t noticed, has sprung. The sun is out, the weather is warming up, and Michigan has lost two dams, flooding large areas of the state even as President Trump made vague threats about withholding funding to the state because of how it’s offering absentee ballots. OK, that last…

KARACHI ― Three months after Pakistan confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, the country of more than 200 million people is abandoning protective measures and allowing citizens to gather to celebrate one of its biggest annual festivals. That decision will likely cause cases to spike, experts warn. Like Brazil and the United States,…

A scientist cleans vaccine vials at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility, in Oxford, Britain, on April 2, 2020. SEAN ELIAS/Reuters British researchers testing an experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus are moving into advanced studies and aim to immunize more than 10,000 people to determine if the shot works. Friday’s announcement came as Chinese scientists who…

Washington (CNN)Dr. Stephen Hahn repeatedly pledged in a CNN interview Tuesday that science and data would be his “north star” while leading the Food and Drug Administration through the coronavirus pandemic. Then, a few hours later, President Donald Trump went on national television and politicized medical research and brazenly flouted FDA warnings.The FDA had already…

May 21st 2020At the World Health Organisation’s annual summit (held remotely), China accepted an Australian-led motion calling for an inquiry into the origins of covid-19. This marked a climbdown by the Chinese government in the face of widespread demands for such a probe. Earlier, Donald Trump once again threatened to pull America out of the…

“There’s nothing from the CDC that I can trust,” snapped U.S. coronavirus task-force leader Deborah Birx at a White House meeting earlier this month. According to news reports, Birx was frustrated at the agency’s tally of coronavirus deaths, as she and colleagues worried that reported numbers were up to 25 percent too high. However, if…

Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN)The scope and speed of restarting the wounded economy is the latest red-blue divide in American politics, the outcome of which is certain to animate — and likely influence — the remainder of the election year.Few states more starkly illustrate that collision than here in North Carolina.It’s not only that President Donald…

No emotion stands nearer to the foundational myths of the human social order than shame. In the beginning, Adam and Eve stood together ‘both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed’. And then they ate of the tree of knowledge; their eyes opened; they knew they were naked; they covered themselves with…

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: AI and Surveillance.Countries around the globe are focusing their collective attention on humanity’s most immediate existential threat. The coronavirus threatens jobs, global economic activity, international relations, the health of our loved ones, and our own lives. To combat this pandemic, epidemiologists require…

May 16th 2020Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, set out a path for easing lockdown in England. His message has changed from “stay at home” to “stay alert”. Restrictions will be eased in phases, depending on how quickly infections fall. Those who can’t work from home are urged to return cautiously to their jobs. Northern Ireland,…

Samuel J. Abrams is professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Jeremi Suri is Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs and Professor of Public Affairs and History at the University of Texas at Austin. The views expressed here are theirs. Read more opinion…

2020 is a nightmare year by most metrics, and it’s also a worst-case scenario emerging out of a best-case scenario for Joe Biden . After trailing in early primary states, Biden came crashing back on a stunning wave of Super Tuesday support. Now the presumptive Democratic nominee in the midst of a global health crisis…

Members of a community share a set of views. They think the same way about at least one thing, whether that’s politics, a football team, a cause, or a favorite choice of toothpaste. A community has at least one thought, issue, feeling, concern, or a goal in common. But having and maintaining only one thing…

It’s safe to say that OnlyFans has gone mainstream. Beyonce name-checked the adult content subscription platform in the “Savage Remix,” rapping, “On that Demon Time, she might start an OnlyFans.” Makeup artist James Charles joked that launching an account might cure his quarantine boredom. Last month, a tweet by a 22-year-old who bragged that she…

(CNN)Nearly every top Democrat says the same thing about former Vice President Joe Biden when they make their endorsement: He is a man defined by his decency and empathy.Endorser after endorser — including former President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren this week — has lauded Biden’s ability to connect with what someone else…

Back in December, which feels like a century ago, the Sunrise Movement gave Joe Biden an F on their Green New Deal scorecard. They gave an A- to Bernie Sanders. The next month, after a six-week long deliberative process, the group endorsed Sanders for president.But with Sanders dropping out this month and Biden now the…

Jennifer Rodgers is a former federal prosecutor, the former executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School, and a CNN legal analyst. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)Unanimous agreement on any issue with political undertones seems elusive these days,…

President Donald Trump has downplayed the need for widespread access to novel coronavirus testing in his push to reopen the U.S. economy, contrary to recommendations from health experts that much greater testing and contact tracing are essential for a safe return to normalcy. Ever the optimist, Trump is expected to push his view in a…

Trial By Media, the six-part series available Monday on Netflix, asks an important question: How does the court of public opinion influence our judicial system and its verdicts?  It’s an area of sociological interest that’s only grown in relevance. With a president notoriously fond of Fox News and Twitter and a 24-hour news cycle always…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Sergio Moro was seen as a key figure in the government Brazil’s top public prosecutor has requested clearance to investigate allegations of political interference by President Jair Bolsonaro.It comes after Justice Minister Sergio Moro resigned on Friday, accusing the president of wanting to install a new federal police chief who…

Give a Buck is Mashable’s deep dive into Universal Basic Income — an idea gaining currency in a time of pandemic and mass unemployment. Now more than ever, the future depends on whether we can pay the bills. In the darkest hour of the coronavirus pandemic, in the face of an expected 30 percent unemployment…

May 9th 2020Reversing course, Donald Trump said that America’s coronavirus task-force would continue, but also focus on rebooting the economy. More states began easing their lockdowns. Florida allowed shops to trade if they limit customers, except in the heavily populated corridor between Miami and Palm Beach. In Michigan, the scene of rowdy anti-lockdown protests, the…

Screenshot: Pixel Pushers Union 512 (Kotaku)“Politics” has become a dirty word in gaming, especially when angrily screamed—or, as is usually the case, frantically typed—by a vocal minority of reactionary video game fans. But for more progressive players, games often aren’t political enough. Or, when they do take a position, they push objectionable conservative concepts like…

DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Dave Davies in today for Terry Gross. When U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was first elected to Congress, there wasn’t a women’s bathroom near the House floor, and it would be several years before women were allowed to wear pants in the chamber. Things have changed since…

Dr. Richard Besser says the pandemic is far from over in the United States. May 6, 2020, 7:25 PM7 min read Dr. Richard Besser, the former acting director of the​ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during part of the first term of the Obama administration, said that he worries as states continue their push…

Rick Bright, one of the leading US vaccine scientists, said he was abruptly ousted from his post as the head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) last month for sticking to science, and refusing to tout “unproven” coronavirus treatments. Bright is now asking for his job back, while also accusing federal public health…

Sure, you can listen to podcasts on politics, true crime, or even just chats about everything in between. “And then,” as Science Vs host Wendy Zuckerman would say, “there’s science.” If you’re a curious person, keen to understand exactly how the world around, inside, and beyond us works, you should try a science podcast. Whether…

(CNN)There are just 184 days — 6 months exactly! — until the 2020 election. Every Sunday, I will outline the 5 BIG storylines you need to know to understand the upcoming week on the campaign trail. And they’re ranked — so the No. 1 story is the most important of the coming week.5. Veepstakes!: Former…

May 2nd 2020Spain announced a complicated four-phase, eight-week return to a “new normality”, which will vary in speed between provinces. If all goes well, Spaniards will be able to return to beaches and bars by the end of June, and in some places before then. France also outlined its own “deconfinement” strategy. Most businesses will…

May 2nd 2020Spain announced a complicated four-phase, eight-week return to a “new normality”, which will vary in speed between provinces. If all goes well, Spaniards will be able to return to beaches and bars by the end of June, and in some places before then. France also outlined its own “deconfinement” strategy. Most businesses will…

The federal response to the coronavirus has revealed a truth that until now had remained hidden behind the veil of state politics – the Republican Party, it turns out, isn’t entirely Donald Trump’s party quite yet. While the national GOP, including Congress, live in an all-Trump news cycle, state Republicans have often governed their states…

Apr 23rd 2020Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed covid-19 as “sniffles”, spoke outside the army’s headquarters at a rally against lockdowns. Some of the protesters called for a shutdown of Congress and the Supreme Court and urged the army to take control of the pandemic response. Mr Bolsonaro has said: “Really, I am the…

(CNN)The ongoing coronavirus pandemic — and President Donald Trump’s uneven (at best) handling of it — has altered the fight for the Senate majority, handing Democrats real momentum as they seek to take back control in the fall.”What we assumed was going to be the political environment a few months ago (solid economy and record…