“Sesame Street” To Introduce Its First Autistic Muppet; Is The PBS Defunding Move Due To The Show’s Parody Of Donald Trump For Years?

Mar 21, 2017 08:37 am UTC| Entertainment Politics

Early this week, Sesame Street officially debuted its first Muppet with autism. Julia, a red-haired shy Muppet, was first introduced last year in digital form for Sesame Workshops Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in...

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Can Silicon Valley's autocrats save democracy?

Mar 20, 2017 01:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

In late February, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published an essay that laid out the social networks vision for the coming years. The 5,700-word document, immediately dubbed a manifesto, was his most...

Why should we obey the law?

Mar 20, 2017 01:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics

The claim by Sally McManus, the new head of the ACTU, that when the law is unjust, I dont think there is a problem in breaking it, returns us to a deep question in political philosophy: Why should I obey the law and the...

George Osborne at the Evening Standard: the latest through a long-revolving door

Mar 18, 2017 06:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

In announcing the former chancellor, George Osborne, as its new editor, the London Evening Standard continues a strong tradition of political elites having easy access to employment within the media elite. They sometimes...

George Osborne, The Evening Standard and the Conservative media establishment

Mar 18, 2017 06:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The appointment of George Osborne, a Conservative MP and former chancellor of the exchequer, as editor of the Evening Standard was, to put it mildly, a surprise to many. But Osbornes appointment only makes more explicit...

A clarion call for a new kind of popular politics

Mar 17, 2017 15:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

If the rising sense of alienation from the political process is to be reversed in the long term, it will require more than a quick dose of populist rhetoric or tinkering with the way politics is organised. The British...

Rodrigo Duterte relaunches Philippine drug war despite calls for investigation

Mar 16, 2017 08:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to continue his war on drugs in spite of growing calls for an investigation into his role in it. On March 6, the Philippine government lifted its suspension on police...