Author: TheGuardian

In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, families were forced out for a huge hi-tech plant – but three years later, it still has not been built. When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill. The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed 20m sq ft hi-tech plant owned by the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn,...

The state of Texas, aiming to help Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, decisively won by Joe Biden, said on December 8 it has filed a lawsuit against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin at the US supreme court, calling changes they made to election procedures amid the coronavirus pandemic unlawful. The extraordinarily unethical and long-shot lawsuit, announced by the Republican attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, was filed directly with the Supreme Court, as is permitted for certain litigation between states. The supreme court has a 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices...

The president pulled every lever to stay in power. Ultimately, it did not work. The United States must decide how it will handle the next election, especially if the outcome is closer. In the end, the coup did not take place. In the most grudging manner possible, Donald Trump signaled on November 23 that the transition of power could begin. That, a White House official told reporters, was as close as Trump will probably ever come to concession, but the machinery of transition has gathered momentum. Joe Biden’s incoming administration now has a government internet domain, is being briefed...

Aaron Rodgers has condemned online death threats against one of his wide receivers, Marquez Valdes-Scantling, after the Green Bay Packers’ 34-31 loss to the Indianapolis Colts on November 22. Valdes-Scantling fumbled the ball in overtime against the Colts, which led to their winning field goal. He received death threats soon after the game and told ESPN he wanted to “get people to understand that we’re humans, too, we’re not just some number on a jersey, that we’re people first.” It was the first fumble of the 26-year-old’s NFL career. Death threats over a football game? Jesus you people need...

Three months ago, a Kenosha police officer shot my nephew, Jacob Blake, seven times in the back in front of his children. Jacob was rushed to the hospital, where for days he was shackled to his bed, only to find he’d been paralyzed from the waist down. The officer who shot him, Rusten Sheskey, has yet to be charged with a crime and is currently on paid administrative leave. Days after the shooting, Donald Trump came and went, showing little empathy for our family, and calling for a violent crackdown on protests for racial justice. The press, too, came...