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It is my understanding that the protests originally started over HK residents frustrated that they would never ever be able to afford decent housing inside of HK, and they blamed a…

stop polluting HN with comments like this

"our economy has weathered this better than anywhere in the world, and we will likely come out of this crisis even stronger, with even more global power, than we went in" - I can't…

Perhaps the current FBI is pure and 100 percent professional now, but the FBI of the 50s/60s/70s would totally do this, and much worse.

it would be funny if Cuba finds a successful treatment protocol first.

"We're not interfering with other countries' covid response" - the US continues to freeze Iran out of the SWIFT system, which means Iran can't buy just about everything. Iranians w…

I've researched the Uighar thing heavily. It always bugs me though that the United States has more prisoners than China, despite having a vastly smaller population.

COVID-19 affects the entire world. Shouldn't all COVID-19 basically be done on a globally viewable wiki? It's going to take the cooperation of all countries to get through it. I do…

Any paper put out by an extremely ideological think tank is going to present statistics in the most biased way possible, to try to prove their point.

National Affairs dot com is published by the extreme right wing think tank The Claremont Institute, started by the man who came up with Barry Goldwater's line "Extremism in the def…

Divestment pushed South Africa to abolish apartheid.

I don't know any activists who feel or behave in the way the activists in your comment do.

Probably not. I find Sanders' support of the military industrial entertainment complex troubling.

From my own experience, this is not true!

When most people talk about "Mass transit" I think they mean trains... subways... buses... I hope!

He'll just nominate Elliot Abrams to replace him.

It should be Opt-In. Not Opt-Out.

Jonathan Franzen is not an expert in the possible effects of climate change. He's an expert at writing novels in which everyone sounds like they have a Creative Writing MFA from Sw…

You appear to be extremely mad Cloudflare stopped proxying a website that encouraged large gun massacres.

no.

because its not true anymore?

look in this story for "expense report" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...

"I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent amount of money" This is incorrect.

Currently the US scans and saves an image of the front and back of every single piece of postal mail.

I listen to several podcasts. I learned from this article that Spotify bought Gimlet Media for 200 million. That's about it.