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Facebook wants to create a 'Supreme Court' for content moderation. Will it work?
The World
September 05, 2019
Updated
Every day, Facebook has to make difficult and consequential decisions about what should stay or go on its platform. Now, it's turning to outsiders for help.
Folk trio The Young'uns uses music to question British patriotism
The World
September 06, 2019
The Young'uns is making music that nods at Britain's history of solidarity and inclusion — while they say patriotism is ebbing in their country.
Displacement
USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life
The World
September 11, 2019
Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.
Protest
Eco-protesters fight Moscow’s attempt to ‘trash’ Russia’s north
The World
September 12, 2019
The fight over Shiyes — a remote railway outpost in Russia’s Arkhangelsk Province that is to play host to a giant landfill — first erupted a little over a year ago after local hunters came across a secret construction site deep in the region’s forests.
Climate Change
Teenage activist Greta Thunberg takes protest to climate-change denier Trump
Reuters
September 13, 2019
A demonstration across the street from the White House Friday marked the first high-profile event of Greta Thunberg's six-day visit to Washington, intended to pressure the Trump administration ahead of a United Nations Climate Summit.
Are the Amazon fires a crime against humanity?
The Conversation
September 19, 2019
The destruction of the Amazon rainforest can have global ramifications and some are arguing that those responsible should be prosecuted.
In 'The Humorist,' Soviet comedy is no joke
The World
September 19, 2019
Michael Idov's new film, “The Humorist,” captures the oxymoronic nature of state-sanctioned Soviet comedy and the downfall of the system through the eyes of character, Boris Arkadiev.
Trump administration
Why did Trump withhold military aid from Ukraine?
The World
September 20, 2019
Does US military aid to Ukraine have anything to do with a whistleblower's "urgent concern" about US President Donald Trump? The World speaks with Nina Jankowicz of the Wilson Center.
History
From the USSR with love: A sailor’s 50-year-old message in a bottle makes it to Alaska
The World
September 27, 2019
Tyler Ivanoff, 36, of Shishmaref, Alaska, was out picking berries and gathering driftwood when he stumbled across a green bottle lying along the state's western shore early this month. It was a message in a bottle — sent from a Soviet sailor 50 years ago.
Why transcripts of Trump's calls with heads of state are so hard to get
The World
September 30, 2019
A US intelligence official filed a whistleblower complaint citing a July 25 telephone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Biden and his son Hunter. The whistleblower says this wasn't the first time under the Trump administration that a telephone conversation record was placed into a codeword-level system to protect politically sensitive information. Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive spoke to The World about the "codeword-level" system.