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New Zealand’s prime minister has rewritten the script for how a nation grieves after a terrorist attack

New Zealand’s prime minister has rewritten the script for how a nation grieves after a terrorist attack

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Masha Gessen writes: Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, has staged a revolution. In the wake of a shooting that killed fifty people, in two mosques, in the city of Christchurch last Friday, Ardern has quietly upended every expectation about the way Western states and their leaders respond to terrorist attacks. Ardern has resisted war rhetoric. Since the modern era of terrorism began, on September 11, 2001, world leaders have responded to terror by promising vengeance and waged…

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Its territory may be gone, but the U.S. fight against ISIS is far from over

Its territory may be gone, but the U.S. fight against ISIS is far from over

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The New York Times reports: The fight to expel the Islamic State from its last shard of territory in Syria may be over. But the United States and its partners still face significant battles against the terrorist group, its affiliates and other networks that are less formally aligned with it elsewhere, in Afghanistan, West Africa and the Philippines. Even before an American-backed Kurdish and Arab militia ousted the last extremist fighters from the eastern Syrian village of Baghuz on Saturday,…

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As a million Brexit opponents join the People’s Vote March, a few dozen supporters March to Leave

As a million Brexit opponents join the People’s Vote March, a few dozen supporters March to Leave

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Organisers say one million people have taken part in the #PeoplesVoteMarch calling for a second referendum. See the full scale of the protest here https://t.co/2pdvBsW2gt pic.twitter.com/237NwEdV8F — Sky News (@SkyNews) March 23, 2019 Well it’s noon and the march for a People’s Vote is about to begin. So let’s take a look at numbers at the start of @Nigel_Farage’s #MarchToLeave this morning… 😬 pic.twitter.com/QBG0GmSaPW — Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) March 23, 2019 The big day for the Leave Means Leave…

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Why Theresa May is the worst British prime minister in living memory

Why Theresa May is the worst British prime minister in living memory

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Anne Applebaum writes: “She was dealt a bad hand.” “She took a poisoned chalice.” From a great distance, it is possible to feel sorry for British Prime Minister Theresa May. She seems so dignified. She seems to be trying so hard. The circles beneath her eyes have grown so much deeper since she became prime minister back in 2016, following the surprise result of the Brexit referendum, the resignation of her hapless predecessor, David Cameron, and an ugly leadership squabble,…

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As Mueller report lands, a wider legal threat continues to loom over the Trump presidency

As Mueller report lands, a wider legal threat continues to loom over the Trump presidency

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The New York Times reports: Even as the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, submitted his confidential report to the Justice Department on Friday, federal and state prosecutors are pursuing about a dozen other investigations that largely grew out of his work, all but ensuring that a legal threat will continue to loom over the Trump presidency. Most of the investigations focus on President Trump or his family business or a cadre of his advisers and associates, according to court…

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I wrote the special counsel rules. The attorney general can — and should — release the Mueller report

I wrote the special counsel rules. The attorney general can — and should — release the Mueller report

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Neal Kumar Katyal writes: The public has every right to see Robert S. Mueller III’s conclusions. Absolutely nothing in the law or the regulations prevents the report from becoming public. Indeed, the relevant sources of law give Attorney General P. William Barr all the latitude in the world to make it public. Those regulations, which I had the privilege of drafting in 1998 and 1999 as a young Justice Department lawyer, require three types of reports. First, the special counsel…

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Cyclone Idai shows the deadly reality of climate change in Africa

Cyclone Idai shows the deadly reality of climate change in Africa

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Landry Ninteretse writes: As Africa climate week unfurls in Ghana, the countries of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe count the costs of Cyclone Idai, which ripped through villages and towns, taking hundreds of lives and leaving a trail of destruction. For a continent already racked by the effects of the climate crisis, Idai is another chilling reminder of the destructive power of the kind of storms that will become more common as the world warms up. The cyclone made landfall on…

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EU leaders believe no-deal Brexit looks likely on April 12

EU leaders believe no-deal Brexit looks likely on April 12

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The Guardian reports: The EU increasingly believes a no-deal Brexit on 12 April is the most likely outcome, senior EU officials have said, prompting Emmanuel Macron to privately ask the Irish prime minister if his country could cope. The French president sought assurance from Leo Varadkar in the closing moments of a marathon session of talks on Thursday night, as the leaders looked to settle on mid-April as the new cliff-edge. “What will happen if there is a no-deal Brexit…

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Anti-Muslim hate crimes soar in UK after Christchurch shootings

Anti-Muslim hate crimes soar in UK after Christchurch shootings

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The Guardian reports: The number of anti-Muslim hate crimes reported across Britain increased by 593% in the week after a white supremacist terrorist killed worshippers at two New Zealand mosques, an independent monitoring group has said. The charity Tell Mama said almost all of the increase was caused by hate incidents linked to the New Zealand attacks last Friday, and there were more recorded in the last seven days than the week following the 2017 Islamist terrorist attack on Manchester….

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Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes

Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes

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Ayal Feinberg, Regina Branton and Valerie Martinez-Ebers write: Using the Anti-Defamation League’s Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism, Terrorism map data (HEAT map), we examined whether there was a correlation between the counties that hosted one of Trump’s 275 presidential campaign rallies in 2016 and increased incidents of hate crimes in subsequent months. To test this, we aggregated hate-crime incident data and Trump rally data to the county level and then used statistical tools to estimate a rally’s impact. We included controls for…

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Mueller delivers report on Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General

Mueller delivers report on Trump-Russia investigation to Attorney General

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The New York Times reports: The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has delivered a report on his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William P. Barr, according to the Justice Department, bringing to a close an investigation that has consumed the nation and cast a shadow over President Trump for nearly two years. Mr. Barr told congressional leaders in a letter late Friday that he may brief them within days on the special counsel’s…

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Why Hannah Arendt is the philosopher for now

Why Hannah Arendt is the philosopher for now

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Lyndsey Stonebridge writes: When Hannah Arendt was herded into Gurs, a detention camp in south-west France in May 1940, she did one of the most sensible things you can do when you are trapped in a real-life nightmare: she read – Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, Clausewitz’s On War and, compulsively, the detective stories of Georges Simenon. Today people are reading Arendt to understand our own grimly bewildering predicament. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Arendt’s 1951 masterpiece The Origins of Totalitarianism…

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A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality

A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality

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MIT Technology Review reports: Back in 1961, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner outlined a thought experiment that demonstrated one of the lesser-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics. The experiment shows how the strange nature of the universe allows two observers—say, Wigner and Wigner’s friend—to experience different realities. Since then, physicists have used the “Wigner’s Friend” thought experiment to explore the nature of measurement and to argue over whether objective facts can exist. That’s important because scientists carry out experiments to…

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How Theresa May decided she was willing to accept a no-deal Brexit

How Theresa May decided she was willing to accept a no-deal Brexit

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Financial Times reports: In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Theresa May made a momentous choice. After a day of acrimonious debate in her cabinet and inner circle, the prime minister decided that she was willing to take Britain out of the EU without a deal. At Thursday’s European Council meeting in Brussels, EU diplomats wondered whether Mrs May was bluffing, but those close to the prime minister said if she cannot secure her Brexit deal she is determined the…

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