London (CNN)On January 2, 2020, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that the following 12 months would amount to a “fantastic year for Britain.” Instead, a global pandemic and the political turmoil of Brexit have stretched the social fabric of the United Kingdom to ripping point. The politics and constitutional…
FILE PHOTO: Stickers bearing the Facebook logo are pictured at Facebook Inc’s F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo (Reuters) – Facebook Incs chief of advertising integrity, who handled the companys ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed…
Supporters of President Trump bang on the glass and chant slogans outside the room where absentee ballots for the 2020 general election were counted at TCF Center on November 4, in Detroit, Mich. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images The day Michigan’s electors gathered in the state Capitol, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer…
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that Zoom meetings get very tiresome, very fast. Apparently, famous politicians are feeling the hurt as well. In a Politico profile of Elizabeth Warren published Thursday, the Massachusetts senator revealed she cannot stand video meetings. Politico described her as someone with “boundless energy…
Then, in 1966, Mao unleashed the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long period of chaos that upended Chinese society. Militant Red Guards accused Mr. Fu, a prolific translator of writers like Balzac and Voltaire, of having capitalistic artistic taste, among other crimes. They humiliated and tortured the scholar and his wife for…
This sounds about right: As of Dec. 30, 2020, well over a third of Americans believe wild conspiracy theories designed to sow fear and societal collapse. A poll from NPR and the market research company Ipsos found that a solid 40% of Americans believe that covid-19 was created in a…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benny Gantz, the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus long dominance of Israeli politics, is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March. FILE PHOTO: Leader of…
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. They say politics makes for strange bedfellows, and the fight over $2,000 stimulus checks certainly has. In the red-hot political battle over whether to raise the latest round of direct stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000, President…
Divisive pandemic politics is creating a wedge and splitting off health care workers from small-town communities that desperately need them. Charlie Riedel/AP The virus infecting thousands of Americans a day is also attacking the country’s social fabric. The coronavirus has exposed a weakness in many rural committees, where divisive pandemic…
