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Florida state is testing corporate America’s values

As Republican-led states ramp up their attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion in education, corporate America’s values are being tested. Finally. For far too long, businesses have avoided denouncing policies that silence marginalised communities, preferring instead to strike a nonpartisan pose for fear of angering stakeholders.

15 hours ago

Banning TikTok stifles internet innovation

The popularity of TikTok, a Chinese-owned short-form video-sharing app, has provoked concerns among American policymakers and proposals to ban the platform. Although data exfiltration concerns are hard to dispel, the costs of banning TikTok far outweigh any benefits to national security. TikTok isn’t a particularly unique or

14 hours ago

Republicans want Biden to trip up — literally

On Thursday, Joe Biden tripped while walking onstage at an Air Force Academy graduation ceremony in Colorado. (It happens to the best of us, Mr President.) Of course, the right didn’t waste any time metaphorically kicking our chief executive while he is literally down — something rightwing gadfly Ben Shapiro thinks is perfectly

14 hours ago

Hoskin seeks second term as leader of powerful Cherokee Nation

Citizens of the Cherokee Nation — the largest Native American tribe in the US — are set to decide whether Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. should lead the tribe for another four years as it enters a golden era after courts recognised its sprawling reservation and an operating budget of more than $3 billion. Hoskin, a 48-year-old

14 hours ago

The president US needs is not Trump or Biden

The president America needs is, unfortunately, Czech, and the Constitution rules him out. He is also, sadly for the world, dead. Václav Havel, playwright and leader of those who opposed the Czechoslovakian communist regime — and went to prison for it several times — was elected the free nation’s first president after the 1989

02 Jun 2023

How to dig your way out of climate grief

This winter there were moments when I wasn’t sure I was going to make it back into my garden. I wasn’t sure I wanted to, would have time, would care. I wasn’t sure it would ever stop raining. After six of the warmest years ever recorded in California, after five years of record wildfires, amid the driest period in 1,200 years, this year’s

02 Jun 2023

Brazilian lawmakers back bills in setback for Lula

Brazilian lawmakers — many connected to the nation’s powerful agriculture lobby — this week approved bills that would weaken or reverse human rights and environmental policies established by the new government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Bill 490, which limits the recognition of new Indigenous territories,

02 Jun 2023

Thank goodness Harry and Meghan have ‘nothing more to say’

The megabucks California royals are reportedly packing in the fly-on-the-wall Netflix documentaries and sit-down Oprah scoops indefinitely. “That period of their life is over — as there is nothing left to say”, an insider told The Sun. Given the wealth of material they’ve had to work with — and the wealth they’ve been able to extract

02 Jun 2023

The debt limit vote signals the end for Kevin McCarthy

If House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has one defining trait, it’s his eagerness to please. He has used this acumen to compensate for his lack of policy wonkery and other skills associated with being an effective congressional leader. When he led Republicans in California’s state legislature, he earned a reputation as someone who would

02 Jun 2023