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Shape of new climate politics emerges
News, Sam Geall, Published on 07/06/2025
» Only a few months ago, a headline like "United States sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on solar panels from Southeast Asia" could have been dismissed as satire. Today, it's nothing special, one of many published amid an uninterrupted fusillade accompanying Donald Trump's first 100 days in power. Yet it's also part of something bigger, as axes of economic power shift, technological changes surge, and popular sentiments reconfigure and metastasise. Amid that fracturing world order, how should we consider the climate crisis?
The UK's most working-class government
Oped, Aaron Reeves & Sam Friedman, Published on 09/07/2024
» The United Kingdom has a new Labour government whose class composition are radically different from previous ones. According to our analysis of Labour's shadow cabinet, some 46% of Keir Starmer's cabinet members were raised by parents with "working class" occupations. That figure is well above average in terms of the broader working population, and it stands in stark contrast to the 7% who were of working-class origin in the last Conservative cabinet.
I hoped to vote for a united Taiwan
Oped, Sam Chang, Published on 13/01/2024
» I'm 72 years old, but recently I made a rookie mistake. I believed that Taiwanese politicians, when they signed an agreement, would honour that agreement and seek unity.
Does the latest Gallup poll tell all?
Oped, Sam Rainsy, Published on 15/12/2023
» A survey of opinion in Cambodia published by Gallup in August shows the impossibility of trying to gauge the views of the public under a dictatorship determined to stamp out any trace of dissent.
Taiwan's rollercoaster ride of democracy
Oped, SAM CHANG, Published on 18/03/2023
» Democracy in Taiwan can feel like a rollercoaster ride. It goes up and it goes down, at the same time.
How YouTube Keeps Broadcasting Inside Russia's Digital Iron Curtain
Business, Sam Schechner & Miles Kruppa & Evan Gershkovich, Published on 10/08/2022
» Months into its war against Ukraine, Moscow continues to let its own citizens access YouTube, leaving a conspicuous hole in its effort to control what Russians see and hear about the conflict.
Interest-Rate Surge Starts to Ripple Through U.S. Economy
Business, Orla McCaffrey & Sam Goldfarb & AnnaMaria Andriotis, Published on 11/04/2022
» The market is finally getting the message that the era of cheap money is ending.
Telegram Thrives Amid Russia's Media Crackdown
Business, Sam Schechner, Published on 21/03/2022
» Russia's campaign to restrict access to Twitter, Facebook and other sources of uncensored information on its invasion of Ukraine has skipped one crucial platform: the social media and chat app Telegram.
A G7 Deal on a Global Minimum Tax for Companies Faces Hurdles
Business, Richard Rubin & Paul Hannon & Sam Schechner, Published on 08/06/2021
» An agreement by wealthy countries to impose minimum taxes on multinational companies faces a rocky path to implementation, with many governments likely to wait and see what others, especially a divided U.S. Congress, will do.
Uber Ruling in France Boosts Gig Workers' Rights
Business, Sam Schechner & Preetika Rana, Published on 06/03/2020
» France's highest appeals court ruled that a former Uber Technologies Inc. driver should be recognized as an employee rather than as an independent contractor, putting France ahead of other efforts around the world to give gig-economy workers the ability to demand broader employment benefits.