John Oliver delivered a detailed and devastating look at China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic minority in northwest China, on Last Week Tonight. The Uighurs, as Oliver explained, live primarily in the Xinjiang province; they’re culturally and ethnically distinct from most of the rest of China (which …
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John Oliver highlighted the current COVID-19 crisis within the United States Postal Service during his Sunday night segment ofLast Week Tonight, pointing out that over 1,000 postal workers have tested positive for COVID-19 and that 40 have died from it. As Samantha Bee noted in a similar segment on Full …
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Many state and local governments aim to expand business and jobs by offering major tax breaks to companies such as Amazon. But as John Oliver detailed on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, these incentives are ineffective at job creation – and those millions (or, in some cases, billions) – of dollars …
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Floods have dominated the U.S. news cycle in 2017 after the devastation of hurricanes in Florida, Puerto Rico and Houston. “Think of them as the ‘Despacito’ of natural disasters,” John Oliver cracked on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. “Persistent, ubiquitous and absolutely no fault of the Puerto Rican government.” The host …
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John Oliver discussed the Equifax security breach on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, outlining how the credit reporting agency could have prevented the cybersecurity disaster. In September, Equifax announced that cyber thieves hacked into the company and lifted sensitive information – including names, birth dates, social security numbers, driver’s license info …
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