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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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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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Trump gives Netanyahu part of Syria to boost Israeli leader’s flagging reelection campaign

Trump gives Netanyahu part of Syria to boost Israeli leader’s flagging reelection campaign

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Robert Mackey writes: With a tweet posted on Thursday, President Donald Trump dismissed five decades of international consensus on the status of the Golan Heights, Syrian territory seized by Israel in 1967 during a preemptive war, declaring that the United States would recognize Israel’s annexation of the region. Offered without explanation, the move looked to many Israeli, Palestinian and American observers like a transparent attempt to boost the reelection prospects of Trump’s embattled ally, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces…

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James Comey: What I want from the Mueller report

James Comey: What I want from the Mueller report

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James Comey writes: The country is eagerly awaiting the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Many people know what they want it to say — what they feel it simply must say — namely, that Donald Trump is a criminal who should be removed from office. Or that he is completely innocent of all wrongdoing. But not everyone knows what it “must” say. Even though I believe Mr. Trump is morally unfit to be president of the United States, I’m not…

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A new age of warfare: How Internet mercenaries do battle for authoritarian governments

A new age of warfare: How Internet mercenaries do battle for authoritarian governments

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The New York Times reports: The man in charge of Saudi Arabia’s ruthless campaign to stifle dissent went searching for ways to spy on people he saw as threats to the kingdom. He knew where to go: a secretive Israeli company offering technology developed by former intelligence operatives. It was late 2017 and Saud al-Qahtani — then a top adviser to Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince — was tracking Saudi dissidents around the world, part of his extensive surveillance efforts…

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump use private accounts for official business, their lawyer says

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump use private accounts for official business, their lawyer says

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The New York Times reports: The chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee revealed information on Thursday that he said showed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner used private messaging services for official White House business in a way that may have violated federal records laws. The chairman, Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, said that a lawyer for Ms. Trump, President Trump’s daughter, and Mr. Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, told the committee late last year that…

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The EU should not ignore the voices of Britain’s Europeans

The EU should not ignore the voices of Britain’s Europeans

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Timothy Garton Ash writes: Hundreds of thousands of us will be on the streets of London this Saturday, as some 700,000 of us were last October, demonstrating that we are not merely Europeans, but Europeans strongly in favour of the EU. Last autumn’s People’s Vote march was already the biggest pro-European demonstration in recent European history. Will European leaders simply ignore us? Next to individual citizens there are the peoples of these islands. Britain is a nation comprised of three…

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Federal judge demands Trump administration reveal how its drilling plans will fuel climate change

Federal judge demands Trump administration reveal how its drilling plans will fuel climate change

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The Washington Post reports: A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing in the West. The decision by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras of Washington could force the Trump administration to account for the full climate impact of its energy-dominance agenda, and it could signal trouble for the president’s plan to boost fossil fuel production across the country. Contreras concluded…

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Protecting indigenous lands protects the environment. Trump and Bolsonaro threaten both

Protecting indigenous lands protects the environment. Trump and Bolsonaro threaten both

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Deb Haaland and Joênia Wapichana write: On Tuesday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will meet with President Trump at the White House. Both administrations are pushing a host of policies that are detrimental to the rights of indigenous people. As two of the first female indigenous members of Congress in the United States and Brazil, respectively, we are concerned about these policies and the mounting threats facing our communities. We must stand up against toxic rhetoric and brutal attacks on the…

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‘Real leaders do exist’: Jacinda Ardern uses solace and steel to guide a broken nation

‘Real leaders do exist’: Jacinda Ardern uses solace and steel to guide a broken nation

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The Guardian reports: In the hours after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in central Christchurch, prime minister Jacinda Ardern called a press conference that set the tone for a grief-stricken country. It has become a seminal moment of her leadership story. The 38-year-old prime minister has been tested like few New Zealand leaders before, leading the country as it deals with the worst terrorism attack in the nation’s modern history. Fifty people killed while at Friday prayers….

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The New Zealand massacre grew from Australian roots

The New Zealand massacre grew from Australian roots

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Pankaj Mishra writes: The Australian-born gunman who killed 50 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, last week cited U.S. President Donald Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose” with his murderous white-supremacist cause. Trump condemned the massacre and said he was being unfairly blamed for it, setting off a familiar argument over the impact of his fondness for stoking existential fears among many white people around the world. He has indeed spoken, like the…

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The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court

The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court

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The Washington Post reports: Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years, an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president’s agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters. In case after case, judges have rebuked Trump officials for failing to follow the most basic rules of governance for shifting policy, including providing legitimate explanations supported by facts and, where required, public input. Many of the…

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