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Nov 22, 2022

‘People underestimated them’: Advocates for Black women in politics want the Democratic Party to learn from the midterms

Runs by Cheri Beasley, Val Demings and Stacey Abrams both underscored long-standing challenges to Black women who run — and showed their potential. Originally published by The 19th We’re making sense of the midterms. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for election context and analysis. A record number of Black women, most of them Democrats, ran

Nov 22, 2022

US politics: midterm elections have handed Joe Biden a divided Congress – history tells us that’s bad for good government

Christoph Pfeufer, Bocconi University and Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University Contrary to the expectations of many observers, the “red wave” stopped at the House of Representatives and only delivered the Republican Party a small majority. The Senate, though, will remain under Democrat control. So the US Congress will be divided until the 2024 election

Nov 21, 2022

Northern Cyprus: Russia opens up direct flights as Putin builds Turkish alliance

Ross Bennett-Cook, University of Westminster and Christoph Bluth, University of Bradford Russia has announced plans to begin direct flights to Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, a state recognised only by Turkey. This will make Russia the only nation outside of Turkey to fly directly to the territory since it declared independence from the Republic of

Nov 21, 2022

BREAKING: EU Proposes Immediate Loss and Damage Fund, Emissions Peak Before 2025

A dramatic new offer from the plenary floor at COP 27, in which rich countries would immediately set up a loss and damage fund in exchange for a pledge to peak greenhouse gas emissions before 2025 and phase down oil and gas as well as coal, may have changed the tone and salvaged

Nov 21, 2022

The Risky Language of Climate Uncertainty

Academics need to stop talking about climate change in ways that obscure its true dangers. By Gernot Wagner A lot of today’s widespread confusion about climate change—some of it unwitting, some of it deliberately cultivated—stems from the critical miscommunication of two little words: risk and uncertainty. To most of the public, risk means

Nov 19, 2022

Qatar refuses payoffs to FIFA World Cup 2022 workers

Qatar claimed millions of dollars in unpaid wages were already disbursed Three weeks ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar’s Labour Minister has rejected calls from human rights groups to compensate migrant workers involved in building stadiums and other infrastructure. A global campaign called #PayUpFIFA was launched by Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Nov 18, 2022

Deepfakes are being used for good – here’s how

The Reface App on a smartphone. Italy stock images / Alamy Stock Photo Dominic Lees, University of Reading In the second season of BBC mystery thriller The Capture, deepfakes threaten the future of democracy and UK national security. In a dystopia set in present day London, hackers use AI to insert these highly

Nov 17, 2022

Analysis finds ‘stunning’ lack of compliance with coal ash rules, putting groundwater at risk

by Kari Lydersen, Energy News NetworkNovember 3, 2022 More than nine out of 10 coal ash impoundments nationwide are contaminating groundwater in violation of federal rules, according to environmental groups’ comprehensive analysis of the latest industry-reported data. Even as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has stepped up enforcement of federal coal ash rules

Nov 16, 2022

New Mexico Oil and Gas Rules Await Cash After Democratic Sweep

The state’s majority Democrat Legislature has yet to fully fund enforcement of recently strengthened regulations. Despite a Democratic sweep of New Mexico state offices and continuing blue majority in the upcoming Legislature, the future of oil and gas regulation remains hazy. Michelle Lujan Grisham returns to the Governor’s Mansion for another four years,

Nov 15, 2022

What Is the True Cost of Climate Change?

It’s time to call out the most dangerous assumption in the history of economics. By Jag Bhalla The dangers of climate change have been examined so thoroughly, for so long, that they should be obvious to all. Thirty-four years ago, NASA’s James Hansen prominently warned Congress that the greenhouse effect was “changing our

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