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Arundhati Roy: Will Booker Prize-winner face jail for 14-year-old remark?
BBC News· 5 days agoWill one of India's most celebrated writers really face prosecution for things she said more than a...
Political upheaval in Fiji after MPs vote themselves huge pay rises
World Socialist Web Site· 46 minutes agoAfter Fiji’s parliamentarians voted last month to give themselves huge pay rises, the main...
Calling A Confederate Monument A 'Reconciliation Memorial' Is Some 1984 Sh*t
Esquire· 2 days agoSupporters of the monument have indeed pitched it as a symbol of reconciliation and unification...
What Can’t You Say These Days?
New York Times· 4 days agoConservative voices are being silenced. The framers established the freedom of speech “in absolute terms” and then — the “original sin” — corrupted it by...
Threats of terrorism in the U.S. are 'more diverse and difficult to counter'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe threat of terrorism in the U.S. is "not more potent than it was around 9/11, but it's certainly...
Trump lionizes Jan. 6 rioters as 'warriors.' Could the dog whistle be any louder?
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoDonald Trump says the rioters who assaulted police officers in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot are...
Henderson history: Two big industry announcements come in late June 1999
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoThe presiding judge at Midwest Harness was Gross Clay Lindsay. Among those brought before him...
India to Prosecute Novelist Over 14-Year-Old Remark
newser· 4 days agoThe move came days after Modi was sworn in for a third presidential term. Roy has been critical of his government. Among other things, Modi is accused of...
Catalonia independence: electoral shift marks the beginning of a new era in a region fraught with...
The Conversation en Español via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDays later, the main civilian leaders of the pro-independence movement – Jordi Sánchez and Jordi...
President Biden Should Pardon D.M. Bennett
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPresident Thomas Jefferson used executive clemency to undo the damage caused by the Sedition Act of 1798—the law that criminalized expressing any "false,...