The Kari Lake Effect
As election returns rolled in on the evening of November 3, 2020, a local news host in Phoenix was starring...
Year: 2022
How Trump and covid-19 made social media “censorship” a partisan issue
Early last year, amid mounting criticism that social media was spreading disinformation about covid-19, Facebook expanded an unprecedented campaign to...
Abortion measure brings a hint of uncertainty to California’s midterms
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — This is quintessential Southern California suburbia, low stucco homes with front-yard lemon trees, soccer fields so...
Confidence slumps around the globe as cost of living crisis bites
A mood of mounting economic pessimism is taking hold across the world’s major economies, as soaring prices and geopolitical uncertainty...
‘A time bomb’: Anger rising in a hot spot of Iran protests
SULIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Growing up under a repressive system, Sharo, a 35-year-old university graduate, never thought she would hear...
Russian Jew faces 4 years in penal colony over Facebook post protesting Ukraine invasion
A 66-year-old Jewish Russian citizen has been held in custody for the past seven months after sharing a Facebook post...
The Observer view on the global escalation of Russia’s war on Ukraine
The Observer view on the global escalation of Russia’s war on UkraineObserver editorialPutin’s plague has put the entire postwar consensus...
Hong Kong Is Giving Away 500,000 Free Plane Tickets
Pandemic-era travel restrictions are slowly lifting around the world, perhaps most shockingly in Hong Kong. Over the past few years,...
Charlie Kirk’s video listing reasons to oppose COVID-19 vaccines contains multiple incorrect, misleading, and unsupported statements
COVID-19 vaccines were “rushed into market”; VAERS shows an “unusual spike in vaccine adverse events”; unvaccinated people shouldn’t be a...
China on high alert as Covid cases rise ahead of Communist party congress
China has been placed on high alert as Covid-19 cases creep up just days before President Xi Jinping is set...