Category: Politics

The Tech Giants Come to Congress, and Democracy Wins a Round
by Marc Rotenberg | Aug 12, 2020 | Politics, TechnologyIt was a defining moment, and it was also long overdue. In the summer of 2020, with the country gripped by a global pandemic that also sharpened the wealth divide of the digital economy, a congressional committee brought the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google to account. They asked why the firms, claiming to […]

Multiple Agendas in Attack on ICC
by Aryeh Neier | Jul 31, 2020 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsThough Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton is now at odds with the president, the Trump administration seems to have belatedly adopted Bolton’s policy of extreme hostility to the International Criminal Court as its own. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has now called the ICC “corrupt”—without any evidence—and labeled it a “kangaroo court.” Further, […]

New Labour Party Chief Keir Starmer Playing Long Game
by Andrew Murray | Jul 31, 2020 | PoliticsJeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Britain’s Labour Party ended with a whimper in April. The country was in coronavirus lockdown; dependent on the National Health Service, which Corbyn had repeatedly warned was underfunded and understaffed; and at the mercy of the decisions of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose career experience does not include crisis management. The […]

Virus Gives Erratic El Salvador Strongman Excuse to Fill Jails
by Belén Fernández | Jul 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, PoliticsOn April 21, in the midst of El Salvador’s hard-core coronavirus lockdown, President Nayib Bukele tweeted a photo of himself seated behind a desk in an elegant office, wearing a face mask. Accompanying the photo was the following reassurance: “The rumors of my kidnapping by aliens are completely unfounded.” As if that weren’t odd enough, […]

Trump-Appointed Judges Hold Police Immune and Refuse to Curb Violence
by Elliot Mincberg | Jun 23, 2020 | Legal AffairsAs protests continue around the country, sparked by the brutal killing of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, one important question concerns the accountability our justice system provides for police violence against African Americans. The answer is: clearly not enough. As we recommit to fighting systemic racism within the criminal justice system, we must […]
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