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Private companies are policing online hate without independent oversight or regulation, which has serious implications and poses risks for basic human rights and freedoms. (Shutterstock)   The torch-lit march by armed white supremacists recently in […]

Tuskegee Airmen and P-47. San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives In July 1943, one month after a race riot shook Detroit, Vice President Henry Wallace spoke to a crowd of union workers and civic […]

La Rambla runs right through the centre of Barcelona. EPA/Armando Babani   It should come as no surprise that terrorists deciding to attack a target in Spain would choose Barcelona’s Las Ramblas. The driver of a […]

Niocr25/Shutterstock   Vladimir Putin’s power in Russia can often look unassailable. However much Western media might champion potential opponents, the president maintains a tight grip, and it’s easy to see why. Any successor to Putin […]

A memorial on Las Ramblas following the attack. EPA/Quique Garcia   The carnage in Barcelona and the shooting of five terrorists in the coastal town of Cambrils 75 miles away are not the first time […]

Cambridge University Press. Image from Cambridge University Cambridge University Press (CUP) has removed more than 300 academic articles (which were published in the academic journal The China Quarterly) from its website in China, in order to avoid […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrives at a ceremony in Pyongyang on April 13. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images) The leader of the North Korean communist regime, Kim Jong-Un, backed down from his missile threat against Guam […]

esfera / shutterstock Venezuela is sinking ever deeper into a political and economic calamity. Inflation is above 700% and GDP is more than a third below 2013 levels. The country with the world’s largest proven […]

FreeProd33/shutterstock   The media is at the forefront of generating awareness over environmental issues. It is easy to name influential films like An Inconvenient Truth or note advances made by The Guardian’s environmental reporting. But […]

Things could soon get complicated. shutterstock.com   The UK government has issued its official position paper on the issue of the customs union and Brexit. It emphasises a desire for the “most frictionless trade possible […]