#Scandinavian

Political pundits often refer to tax systems in Scandinavian countries like #Denmark and #Sweden.But how do Scandinavian countries really pay for their government spending? https://tax.foundation/scandinavian THREAD If the U.S. were

Jacob Mchangama

THREAD 1: On this day 250 years ago the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway became the first state in the world to formally abolish any and all forms of censorship through a

I lived in Minneapolis for 8 years, and it's probably my favorite city in the US. So sad right now.It's both shocking and not surprising at the same time. (short

Random thought, but is the tendency to refer casually to Viking sexual mores as "homophobic" a little off the mark? Maybe contemporary gay culture represents a closer analogy to their

Illiberal Democrat

What'll be your rank order of factors most imp for a country's econ growth/absolute economic level (2 diff qns) : a) Natural Resourcesb) physical capital(machinery/tech)c) infrad) financial capital e) human

rich white ladies are about to feel the affects of the pandemic for the first timehttps://twitter.com/reuters/status/1260606999059890184 they’d been doing ok since their husbands decided to stay at the city apartment

There's a big difference between "socialist", "social democrat" and "communist", but because the world views of so many Nigerians are shaped by US politics, once we hear anything beginning with

TimetoDecor Malaysia

COVID: BRINGING OUT THE INTERIOR DESIGNER IN YOUSiapa sangka waktu covid anda finally unleash that inner creativity yang anda lama pendam? Nah kami senaraikan room transformation oleh warga netizen, untuk

A Swedish municipal government let the public guide them on what kind of architecture would be realized in a new development and in the end this beautiful revisit of gold

My take on today's select committee hearing with Sir Simon Stevens, Amanda Pritchard & Prof Steve Powis: overall message is that despite rising brilliantly to the Covid challenge it is

So on Monday this paper came out showing ice sheets were losing ice at a rate equivalent to the high end scenario in @IPCC_CH #AR5. Here is a brief

Andreas 🇪🇺 Isolated and insulated

It is always said of Icelandic that it is a very conservative language. True. Modern Icelandic is close to its Old Norse roots and has preserved morphological features long lost

Tolkien trending in Brazil in part because of the false idea that LOTR is a Scandinavian white story. Laughable at best, a total bastardization of his work at worst. Tolkien

If you think being a social Democrat means walking around in a sackcloth with bugs in your hair and being unwilling to wear clothes Vanity Fair tells you to put

Michael Bublé ❄️

According to the chief inspector, British prisons are ‘unacceptably violent and dangerous places”. They are characterised by poor mental health, drug use, and the “perennial problems of overcrowding, poor physical

Salish Sea Black Autonomists

"Leninists are not against the state like anarchists are. They are against /this/ state. They are not against police, they are against /these/ police. They are against /these/ prisons. The