The scale of US election spending explained in five graphs

The amount of money spent on US elections eclipses the annual total economic output of some small countries. The total spending by candidates, political parties and independent campaign groups in the 2016 race was US$6.5 billion – comparable to the GDP that year of Monaco, Kosovo or Liechtenstein, and moreContinue Reading

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IPL 2020, RCB vs KXIP: Chris Morris bowls during his side’s fixture against Chennai Super Kings© BCCI/IPL Royal Challengers Bangalore presently seem top have the best bowling attack in IPL 2020. While Navdeep Saini and Isuru Udana hade been doing well, with Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sundar manning the spinContinue Reading

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The Caribbean’s case for reparations: Part II · Global Voices

Reparatory justice: ‘The greatest political movement of the 21st century’ The slave trade triangle; photo by Ben Sutherland on Flickr, CC BY 2.0. The text reads: “During the 1700s Britain was the leading slave-trading nation. A half of all Africans transported across the Atlantic into slavery were carried in BritishContinue Reading

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K-pop band BTS targeted by Chinese netizens over Korean War comments · Global Voices

BTS became the top search result on Weibo this week Screen shot from BTS ‘Dynamite’ official MV on Youtube China’s online patriots are targeting internationally famous K-pop band BTS after the group’s leader Kim Nan-joon paid tribute South Korea’s and United States’s war veterans on October 8. Nan-joon, also known by his stage nameContinue Reading

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