How a group of metal heads in Los Angeles in the 1980s evolved into a gang that terrorises three countries is the subject of MS-13 by Steven Dudley, founder of Insight Crime, a site that covers organised crime in Latin America. The story begins with...
Books and arts 文艺板块 Book review 书评 Gangs and governments 黑帮与政府 The monster and the boys 怪物和游击队员们 Two books explain how a street gang born in Los Angeles has wreaked havoc in Central America 通过两本书解释了...
The leader of a coup in Mali appointed Bah Ndaw, a former defence minister, as transitional president. The EU and America have suspended military aid to the country, which is fighting jihadists. 马里政变领导人任命前国防部长巴哈恩多为...
From this predator's point of view the requirement to evolve resistance to a venom, particularly one that is not lethal, is therefore low. 从这种捕食者的角度来看，对进化出毒液抵抗力（尤其是非致命毒液）的要求因而很低...
Funnel-web spiders have a fearsome reputation. People bitten by these Australian arachnids suffer extreme pain, 漏斗网蜘蛛有着一个可怕的名声。被这些澳大利亚蛛形纲动物叮咬过的人都会出现极度疼痛、 breathing prob...
These are valid concerns, which will not be fully allayed until the returns are in. (Representative G.K. Butterfield, whose congressional district includes Greenville, said his biggest fear was of a covid-19 surge a week before the election.) Yet Lex...
Polls point to a marginal softness in their support for Mr Biden relative to that enjoyed by Hillary Clinton. Where she won 88% of African-Americans, YouGov polling suggests 83% are committed to voting for Mr Biden. He will probably bridge the gap. O...
United States 美国版块 Lexington 列克星顿专栏 A double negative 双重否定 Hope turned out black voters for Barack Obama. Will fear bring them out against his successor? 是希望让黑人选民们支持奥巴马。那么害怕会驱使他们...
The world this week 本周国际要闻 Politics 政治 Donald Trump marshalled enough Republican votes in the Senate to consider a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election on November 3rd. Ms Ginsburgs death gives the party a window to...
Her arguments in discrimination cases were based squarely on the 14th Amendments guarantee of equal protection of the laws. Gross generalisations about how women were or how men were had to be forgotten. Her dream was a world in which men and women c...
In her dissents she sometimes appealed to Congress to correct the law and occasionally, to her delight, it did. Her legal hero was an incrementalist: Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice on the court, who had laboured to dismantle segregation....
And she especially attacked the striking down, in 2013, of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v Holder, on the supposition that racism had waned enough to discard it. That, she wrote, was like throwing away your umbrella in a rainsto...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal conscience of Americas Supreme Court, died on September 18th, aged 87 美国最高法院的自由派良知鲁斯巴德金斯伯格于9月18日逝世，享年87岁。 On the evening of July 11th 2015, Ruth Bader Ginsbu...
Another controversy relates to the Curia. Several Vatican officials, clerical and lay, 另一个争议和罗马教廷有关。该城邦国家的检察官 are being investigated by the city state's prosecutors in connection with the purchase of a buil...
Small European enclaves have given financial regulators big headaches in the past. 过去，一些欧洲小国曾让金融监管机构头疼不已。 Two of them, San Marino and the Vatican, will be visited by inspectors from Moneyval, 来自Moneyval的...
