| May’s Brexit plan rejected again. Is UK running out of options? Posted: 12 Mar 2019 02:20 PM PDT ![May's Brexit plan rejected again. Is UK running out of options?]( "May's Brexit plan rejected again. Is UK running out of options?") Nearly three years after voting in a referendum to leave the European Union, and 17 days before its expected departure, Britain is no closer to a political consensus on how to leave or whether to rethink its exit.
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| Why Adam Schiff, like Pelosi, doesn’t favor impeaching Trump Posted: 12 Mar 2019 01:26 PM PDT ![Why Adam Schiff, like Pelosi, doesn't favor impeaching Trump]( "Why Adam Schiff, like Pelosi, doesn't favor impeaching Trump") From the beginning, California Rep. Adam Schiff has been one of the most outspoken proponents of a theory of Trump-Russia collusion among critics of President Donald Trump. Now, as special counsel Robert Mueller appears close to wrapping up his investigation, many Democrats are pivoting away from a narrative alleging a broad conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to fix the 2016 election – but not Congressman Schiff. Instead, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is doubling down.
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| At 30, the web still nurtures freedom of thought Posted: 12 Mar 2019 12:28 PM PDT ![At 30, the web still nurtures freedom of thought]( "At 30, the web still nurtures freedom of thought") For the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, issued a letter of light against the dark. As if on cue, the people of Algeria showed this week how all things internet – from social media apps on phones to the web on desktops – surely are a force for good. For the past three weeks, hundreds of thousands of Algerians collaborated on Facebook and in other ways to hold protests that, on March 11, forced President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to announce he would be leaving office after 20 years in power.
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| Why the debate over anti-Semitism is so important Posted: 12 Mar 2019 11:54 AM PDT ![Why the debate over anti-Semitism is so important]( "Why the debate over anti-Semitism is so important") It has set off a full-blown crisis inside Britain's Labour Party, and the first hints of one inside the Democratic Party in the United States: Anti-Semitism, that oldest of hatreds, is proving to be, as a leading Irish writer and politician once put it, a very light sleeper. The first is that, just as on the right, the stereotyping and dehumanization of Jews, once the province of fringe figures, has increasingly been given space within the mainstream. Synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and other Jewish property have been attacked.
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