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Anti-vaxxers are taking populism to a new, deadly level | Gaby Hinsliff

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From the US to Italy, a distrust of elites and expertise is now becoming a public health crisis

The two men rode into the village on a motorbike, eyewitnesses said, and opened fire. They left one woman dead and another injured, and a trail of fear in their wake. Both women were vaccination workers trying to save children from polio, and in parts of Pakistan that is a dangerous thing to be. Medical teams have repeatedly been attacked amid rumours, fuelled by Islamist militants, that a national drive to eradicate the disease is cover for a western plot to sterilise children or gather intelligence.

In Nigeria, too, the extremist group Boko Haram has murdered vaccination workers, attempting to frighten families out of having their babies protected. British parents don’t know how lucky we are, with our nice, safe NHS surgeries and our children who have the vast unfathomable luck to be born right here and now: winners of the historical lottery, a generation for whom the eradication of so many infectious diseases is within sight. Or it could be, if some in the west seemingly weren’t doing their damnedest to die of ignorance instead.

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Joe Biden’s non-apology to Anita Hill casts long shadow over 2020 run

Good guy Joe – go home, support the good field – your time’s up!

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Biden’s bid for president has invited renewed questions over his handling of Hill’s 1991 testimony – and his failure to say sorry

After Joe Biden failed once more on Friday to apologize to Anita Hill for his handling of a 1991 Senate hearing at which she testified about being sexually harassed by supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas, questions surged anew.

Related: Joe Biden: Anita Hill not satisfied with former vice-president’s apology

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Bernie Sanders is the most feminist 2020 candidate, as far as I’m concerned | Arwa Mahdawi

Of all the delusions that most drag down progress, self-delusion, is the worst. With several fine female candidates who are members of the Democratic Party and full on feminists – quite a stretch to claim Bernie is the most feminist – rotflmao!

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Sanders is far from perfect, but it is ridiculous to claim that he is beloved purely by arrogant white bros

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Democratic 2020 candidate Moulton says Sanders, Warren too liberal to beat Trump

Moulton too weak to do anything but try to harm party to advance himself! U.S. congressman Seth Moulton, one of 20 Democrats running for president, criticized rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on Friday, saying they were so liberal they risked handing President Donald Trump a second White House term.

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Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton of 2020 – and it won’t end well this time either | Arwa Mahdawi

Like you Joe but your time is up.

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His is the vaguest and most centrist of battle cries: let’s go back to, you know, ‘all those good things’

Joe Biden wants to make America straight again. “America’s coming back like we used to be,” the former vice-president told reporters in Delaware on Thursday, shortly after he released a video officially announcing his 2020 campaign. “Ethical, straight, telling the truth … All those good things.”

Related: Joe Biden’s inappropriate touching is the embodiment of male privilege | Suzanne Moore

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Armenian MPs call for trans activist to be burned alive after historic speech

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Landmark parliamentary address on LGBTI discrimination challenges reformist agenda of post-revolution government

Armenia’s first registered transgender woman has received death threats after making a historic speech in her country’s national assembly.

Lilit Martirosyan became the first member of her country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community to take to the parliamentary podium, speaking out against discrimination at a session of its committee on human rights. A video of the speech has been shared around the world.

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