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On polling day, last Thursday, a horde of sunburnt, smiling Labour Party volunteers hit the streets of Plymouth, our medium-sized coastal city near the southwestern tip of Britain. We knocked on door after door and made the case for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union. Knocking on doors in the weeks leading up…
Former London mayor and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson walks through the Houses of Parliament and Portcullis House in central London on June 27. (Justin Tallis/Agence France-Presse) Let me see if I can get all of these Brexit reactions straight. First, there’s the simple fact that markets have given a big short-term thumbs down to the…
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Airbnb Inc., the second-most highly valued San Francisco-based startup, sued its hometown over claims the city’s rental restrictions violate protections for internet companies and its free-speech rights. The company is hoping to avoid thousands of dollars in daily fines it could face when a new San Francisco law takes full effect next month. The law,…
I arrived at naptime at Bethany Mandel’s 2nd floor apartment in Central New Jersey. Evidence of her two children under 3 — toys, toys and more toys — was everywhere. She’s a full-time mom and writer who works from home. And so amid the kiddie detritus is her laptop, open, on the couch. But that’s not…
There’s a delicious irony to Remainers’ branding of Leave voters as confused individuals who have simply made a desperate howling noise, whose anti-EU vote was a ‘howl of anger’ (Tim Farron) or a ‘howl of frustration’ (JK Rowling). Which is that if anyone’s been howling in recent days, it’s them, the top dogs of the…
President Obama has issued executive orders to ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons. Here is what you need to know about the new rules. (Victoria M. Walker/The Washington Post) President Obama on Monday announced a ban on solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, saying the practice…
The shadow of Brexit and rising protectionist sentiment loom large as U.S. President Barack Obama meets his North American counterparts to bolster the world’s largest trading bloc. Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto hold the so-called Three Amigos summit Wednesday in Ottawa, with fallout from the U.K.’s vote last week…
Sidewalk Labs, a secretive subsidiary of Alphabet, wants to radically overhaul public parking and transportation in American cities, emails and documents obtained by the Guardian reveal. Its high-tech services, which it calls “new superpowers to extend access and mobility”, could make it easier to drive and park in cities and create hybrid public/private transit options…