Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Britain's Second Chance: After All-Out Brexit Failure, Will the U.K. Vote Again?
On Tuesday, U.K. Parliament rejected – by a whopping total of 149 votes – Prime Minister Theresa May's last-minute compromise plan with the E.U. on the proposed deal, possibly spelling the end of Brexit.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 1.0: Bolstering the Surveillance State with Rekognition
The potential abuse of this software for surveillance and data harvesting purposes is so troubling that some of Amazon’s shareholders have pleaded with the company to forgo selling its facial recognition technology to the government.
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Defense Tech Startup Founded By Trump's Most Prominent Silicon Valley Supporters Wins Secretive Military AI Contract
The previously unreported Project Maven contract could be a boon for Anduril Industries, which wants to remake the defense contracting industry by incorporating the latest innovations of Silicon Valley into warfighting technology.
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Populism Rising: Projections Show a Right-wing Future for Europe
Right-wing authoritarian parties have grown at least 33% compared to 2018, with at least 26% of voters supporting them across the European Union, according to the latest findings.
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16-Year-Olds Want to Vote—and States Are Starting to Listen to Them
Oregon may become the first state to lower the voting age to include youth in all local and statewide elections.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Big Tech Beatdown Will Spark a Vital and Unprecedented Debate
The presidential candidate's new plan to break up the world’s biggest tech firms provides the rarest sign that someone seeking power wants to use that power to weaken Silicon Valley.
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Revealed: populist leaders linked to reduced inequality
Populists both the left and right have closed the gap between rich and poor – but also eroded freedoms.
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'Outrageous Violation of First Amendment': Leaked Docs Reveal Trump Tracked Journalists and Rights Advocates at Border
The government is keeping a list of journalists and "instigators" that were involved with the so-called migrant caravan from the last months of 2018 and early 2019 in a database.
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Rebel Cities 22: Nationwide Protests Rock Vietnam's Authoritarian-Neoliberal Government
Widespread ongoing protests against the country's Special Economic Zones – through which Vietnam favors deregulated business with China – are shaking the stability of the government.
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Democrats’ Net Neutrality Bill Would Fully Restore Obama-Era FCC Rules
Instead of writing a new set of net neutrality rules, the "Save the Internet Act" would simply nullify FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's repeal of the 2015 FCC order – and forbid the agency from repealing the rules in the future.
