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A survey of presidential preferences and regrets
Regina Ip spins a fantasy of a just government restoring order to Hong Kong.
Imagine skies filled with drones carrying kidneys and livers, on their way to save the lives of people awaiting transplants. The future is here!
Occultists, social justice warriors, and techno-utopians may not look like the Christians of yore, but they're more religious than they realize.
Mears' effort to take readers behind the velvet rope and explore the world of clubbing proves both fun and sobering.
"In China, expressing beliefs or ideas not approved by the CCP—religion, democracy, human rights—can lead to prison."
"Academic staff...are no longer free to make controversial statements to the general public about politically or socially controversial matters," one of them writes.
The show smartly grasps that there will always be competing visions for the future of feminism.
Thirty-one years ago, an unidentified man held off Chinese military tanks in Tiananmen Square. Protesters facing down state violence today have big shoes to fill.
New legislation proposed in Beijing signals the likely end of the "one country, two systems" policy that has allowed Hong Kong to flourish.
"You can't exactly eat with a mask on, and I have a small space where people would be in close proximity to each other."
Is tahini salsa verde an insidious form of cultural appropriation or two immigrants from Oaxaca riffing on food traditions they love?
"It's unconscionable that the Trump administration would do the bidding of the potato and junk food industries," noted one critic. But Trump's changes are relatively minor.
The relics of terrible segregationist government policies are still felt in East Austin, an area that's quickly gentrifying
The Trump administration is trying to make it harder for pregnant women to enter the country as tourists since they might give birth while here.
What is the correct reward for the person who creates something that millions of people want badly enough to pay for it?
Protesters say the cost of living is too high and wealth is distributed too unequally.
It's the end of the decade, and groceries, birth control, and weed can all be delivered straight to your door.
Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have taken to the streets, smashed lamp posts, and stormed government buildings to keep China from encroaching on Hong Kong's freedoms prematurely.
The film flounders when Handler visits a spoken-word night to see college kids talk about microaggressions, but the film gets better when it shifts focus to more grave issues.
The president takes credit for the fact that Beijing hasn't sent tanks into Hong Kong.
Escalating violence in Hong Kong
The protester, Chow Tsz-lok, was only 22.
But it's just health insurance, not cash
The video Abbott shared was not of a homeless person—it was a mentally ill person having a serious episode. Whoops.
Of those who reported a negative view of capitalism, 20 percent say it's exploitative or corrupt.
Among other things, it would end Uber as we know it.
Under Chinese authoritarianism, they'll have neither.
The company's Chinese ownership may have something to do with it.
Today, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the controversial extradition bill that set off protests.
"Hong Kong is a place without basic political and economic freedom," Wong tells Reason.
Simon Cheng Man-kit, a staffer at the British Consulate in Hong Kong, hasn't returned from a trip he took to mainland China nearly two weeks ago.
Despite police harassment and border confiscations, protest supplies continue to make their way to dissidents.
Pro-democracy dissidents turned violent yesterday at Hong Kong's airport.
Nine people were injured during the weekend's protests in Hong Kong, including one woman who might be permanently blind after a violent encounter with the police.
As Beijing develops a high-tech police state, Hongkongers develop ways to resist it.
It's foolish for media outlets to imply that laws which were signed in May and June were passed in relation to the tragic shooting in El Paso.
Being comfortably high makes the burden of taxes a bit less awful.
A tale of chicken and cultural appropriation in Austin.
Cannabis equity programs are growing in popularity, but do they actually work?
Plus, what they might be like in a post-Roe world