‘Mr. President, are you a racist?’: Trump is requested about ‘shithole’ remarks at MLK contend with
President Donald Trump delivered a speech to…
President Donald Trump delivered a speech to…
One thing that is upsetting about the comments that US President Donald Trump made calling African and African-descent nations « shitholes » is that his African and African-descent supporters from the 2016 election period haven’t come out to support him on that. After all, loyalty counts for something, doesn’t it? Some of these people are my friends,…
US President Donald Trump has decided he will continue sanctions relief for Iran, keeping the landmark 2015 nuclear deal in place for the time being. The White House said on Friday that Trump will waive the sanctions on Iran for the « last time », unless an agreement can be reached between the US and Europe within…
Over the summer, FiveThirtyEight published two stories on broadband internet access in the U.S. that were based on a data set made public by academic researchers who had acquired data from Catalist, a well-known political data firm. After further reporting, we can no longer vouch for the academics’ data set. The preponderance of evidence we’ve…
German sociologist Max Weber’s highly cited definition of the modern state as a « community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory » does not fit well with the case of Yemen. In North Yemen, some tribes have enjoyed autonomous political and military power since the start of the civil…
« We are workers. We are not political ». This was a slogan that appeared on a series of banners raised by Andimeshk Municipality workers in southern Iran during their protests over unpaid wages earlier this year. At a first glance, the slogan seems to be a confirmation of some of the recent analysis and commentary on…
Rebekah Shelton has confirmed she isn’t dead – despite a tweet on her account appearing this morning to say she had passed away. The Big Brother star posted a video on the same Twitter account saying she’d been hacked. « I’m not dead!!!!!! Please stop spreading this news!!!!! My lawyer is already working on this and…
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (fcau) said on Thursday it will shift production of Ram heavy-duty pickup trucks from Mexico to Michigan in 2020, a move that lowers the risk to the automaker’s profit should President Donald Trump pull the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Fiat Chrysler said it would create 2,500…
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Best Accessibility Tech: Xenoma e-skin pajamas Accessibility has become a major theme at CES, and it’s one of the harder categories to judge because of all the potentially life-changing tech on the floor. But Xenoma’s e-skin pajamas took the prize this year thanks to its innovative fabric sensors that can stand up to the abuse…
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