Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Overpopulation and climate change The big population news, reported late last month, is that we just crossed 8 billion
Rapper and former fashion mogul Kanye West has begun tweeting again after a nearly month-long silence that began with Twitter removing a November 4 tweet in which he used the N-word.
The State of California is continuing its aggressive policies pushing consumers and companies to adopt electric vehicles by proposing to force shipping companies to use electric trucks at the state’s beleaguered port facilities. Despite a supply-chain crisis that resulted in record backlogs at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports
In these closing days of COP27, governments are negotiating the final text detailing the key agreements reached at the United Nations climate change summit in Egypt.
On September 5, 2019, US armed forces and Afghan allies carried out a night raid on a rural hamlet in southern Afghanistan.