One of the great and enduring excitement of New Zealand life is when someone notices that we exist. We adhere to Rudyard Kipling’s 1891 observation of our most remote archipelago as ‘last and most beautiful’, a distant southern star, two vague, misty islands on the edge of the world – …
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US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has announced that he will cut operational costs until after the November election, after days of widespread rumors and claims that Donald Trump deliberately slammed the post to help his re-election. In a statement, DeJoy announced that he was postponing the changes to “prevent even …
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If the coronavirus were to spread in America, we would do well to remember the lessons, and victories, of the fight against HIV / AIDS. Thirty years ago this summer, we were in the HIV / Aids pandemic for a decade and more than 100,000 Americans had already lost their …
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Donald Trump has announced that he will forgive Susan B Anthony, who was arrested in 1872 for voting, in violation of laws that only allow men to do so. The Act of Executive Clemency was announced at a ceremony in the White House on the occasion of the 100th anniversary …
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When the United States rules over Donald Trump’s latest attempt to suppress the vote in the November presidential election by undermining it via mail-in-vote, an alternative route to casting votes takes shape can provide for hundreds of thousands of Americans: turn sports arenas into giant polling stations. At least 12 …
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