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Democratic history is a timeline of states acting to curb over-mighty figures, from kings to business tycoons...
AI czar David Sacks Alex Brandon/AP White House AI czar David Sacks criticized the possibility of a California wealth tax. If the tax is ultimately approved, he said it will be "the beginning of s...
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/america-polymarket-disaster/685662/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689143 Points: 8 # Comments: 1...
Article URL: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683205 Points: 49 # Comments: 4...
As masked and armed men in combat armor swarmed throughout the Twin Cities, Gov. Tim Walz took to primetime television to ask Minnesotans to film ICE. The videos, he said , would "create a database of...
Article URL: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656100 Points: 10 # Comments: 1...
Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....
US President Donald Trump called off looming tariffs on European countries over Greenland. DW has more....
Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2026/01/europe-has-a-lot-to-learn-from-mark-carney Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705402 Points: 5 # Com...
US president assails allies with talk of ‘great stupidity’, dog sleds and AI images...
Conservatives will come to see a unified continent as the only defence against America and China...
Bolsonaro's family has repeatedly complained about the conditions in which he was being held. The former president is serving a 27-year prison sentence for attempting a coup following his 2022 electio...
"There's enormous issues for our economy and for our democracy that have got to be dealt with," Sanders said. "And I feel we're not ready to do that." Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty I...
The second term of US President Donald Trump has brought unprecedented strain on once-solid German-American relations. The issue of Greenland could be a tipping point. DW looks back on a year of trans...
Bavaria's State Premier Markus Söder wants to change Germany's political map, but his proposal to merge federal states is meeting with resistance....
A doctor from Nigeria tells what Martin Luther King Jr. taught him about health, Justice and inequality. (Image credit: Stephen F. Somerstein)...
Trump has said he wants the territory because of its strategic location. Maps show how a melting Arctic is affecting geopolitics....
Whole milk is heading back to school lunch cafeterias...
A struggling currency sparked the protests and Trump’s new tariffs on Tehran’s trade partners will only increase the pain...
Donald Trump’s sudden 25% tariff on nations trading with Iran puts Beijing squarely in the spotlight. China knows how to evade sanctions and has the muscle to retaliate. DW explores what this showdown...