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Remember when the Government of India threw all of Kashmir’s opposition leaders into jail and kept them there, because it could? Rarely has such egregious authoritarianism elicited so little pushback in a democracy. In the last eight years, our prison walls have bulged with political prisoners, languishing in jail on absurd charges, or without any charges at all. Journalists

Other places. we also raided tibet, we killed 3000 people, took a lot of their artefacts and they are in our museums. we raided ethiopia and took a crown, which is a site centrepiece at the vn day. these conversations about colonialism, we just like to pretend it is not really happening. at a time in history when we are trying to redefine our role in the world after brexit, i think we should think about the prism through which the rest of the world sees us, and that prison is usually empire. wha...

It is difficult to say how the story of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last week will end for the three countries directly involved – the US, China and Taiwan (yes, I don’t have to follow the ‘One China’ policy) -- and for the world at large. Or, perhaps, there will not be an end, rather it is the beginning of a new, more intense phase of US-China rivalry.

Scott jennings, abbey. i get it. were lawyers. we bill people. we dont do the math. what do you make of the idea, governor desantis has somebody suspended, basically escorted out of the building, because he wont eventually look at a case in his mind case-by-case and doesnt want to -- doesnt intend to follow what the supreme court says hes supposed to follow or not follow. whats your thought? >> two take aways, laura. number one, that governor desantis used the word "woke" in that speech very int...

You suggest, going to be sales of drones to russia. right now russia is largely using turkish drones and iranian drones and if they had chinese drones, those would be better. and i think that were likely to see that. the conundrum that xi jinping is in is he used nationalism as a glue to hold china together and encouraged them to see them through this prism. and theres an expression, its easy to get on the back of a tiger and hard to get off. hes now on the back of that nationalistic tiger. >> t...

One, that governor desantis used the word woke in that speak, very intentionally. if there is a 2024 presidential primary, being tough on wokeness will be just as important as being tough on crime or china. i think a lot of things that governor desantis does going forward will have to be looked at through that prism of a potential presidential race. one more quick point, most of my life, republicans have said that the government that governs best is the government as close to the people. that wo...

Lot more about the climate investment. i care a lot more about the health care provisions. so if thats how they want to market it, fine, but what matters more is saving the planet frankly. thats why im saying even if this tax provision is not perfect its good enough because it will help us get to the point of a major investment in climate and lowering -- or making more affordable health coverage for americans. >> doug, final point, your former boss john mccain, conservative on a lot of things bu...

Things that we are going to discover that we still dont know because the universe is full of these surprises. so how does this instrument find out what stars are made of? scientists take starlight and pass it through a prism, splitting it into a rainbow spectrum. every element like hydrogen absorbs light in its own unique way, appearing as lines on the spectrum. different chemicals have their own characteristic bar code, allowing astronomers to work out what the star is made of. this telescope i...

From and where they will go next. whenever there is a new instrument or something big going on, there is all the things for what the instrument was designed, but then there is an enormous amount of things that we are going to discover that we still dont know, because the universe is full of these surprises. so how does this instrument find out what stars are made of? scientists take starlight and pass it through a prism, splitting it into a rainbow spectrum. every element, like hydrogen, absorbs...

If you don’t get climate change, then climate change will get you. For years, nearly every country in the tropical and equatorial belts has been subjected to floods, fires and famines, as weather patterns grew more erratic. But this year, world records are tumbling elsewhere, too. Britain recorded temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius for the first time since temperature