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Better Schools Won’t Fix America
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
Harrison Metal — General Management
Many of you -- the best and brightest of your generation -- won’t go to business school. And you aren’t going to get long apprenticeships...
Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint
A citizens militia known as the United Constitutional Patriots has begun detaining families of asylum seekers at gunpoint before handing them over to Border Patrol agents.
The girl who executed Nazis after seducing them in bars dies aged 92
Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus would often go out looking for Nazis.
Music, Feeling, and Transcendence: Nick Cave on AI, Awe, and the Splendor of Our Human Limitations
“What a great song makes us feel is a sense of awe… A sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings. It is entirely to do with our audacity as humans …
Wisconsin Republicans forge ahead with power-stripping bills
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans moved quickly Monday with a rare lame-duck session that would change the 2020 presidential primary date to benefit a conservative Supreme Court justice and weaken the newly elected Democratic governor and...
Climate change will shrink US economy and kill thousands, government report warns
At a time when many Americans are distracted on a long holiday weekend, the Trump administration released a federally mandated report on climate change that delivers a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts on the country's...
What Happens if Elections Are No Longer Legitimate?
Two years ago, just a couple weeks before the 2016 presidential election, I asked what does it look like when citizens don’t trust elections? Perhaps more than anything that he has said through his…
When the U.S. had a president who wouldn’t let a little rain stop him from honoring the troops • r/pics
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Brian Kemp's Lead in Georgia Needs an Asterisk
If the governor’s race had taken place in another country, the State Department would have questioned its legitimacy.
Panasonic's human blinkers help people concentrate in open-plan offices
Panasonic's Future Life Factory is developing wearable blinkers, designed to limit your sense of sound and sight, and help you focus on what's directly in front of you.
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
A landmark United Nations report paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding damage requires quickly transforming the world economy.
Eric Holder to produce new legal drama for CBS
The ripped-from-the-headlines procedural will no doubt crib heavily from Holder's upcoming memoir.
Virtue Signaling, or … Why Clinton is in Trouble
Hillary Clinton would make a sober, smart and pragmatic president. Donald Trump would be a catastrophe. ― LA Times Editorial Board endorsement, September 23, 2016 Yep, gotta get me some of that pragmatism! It’s code for “typical lying politician”,...
Luke Groesbeck
can't believe this was written in September 2016. what a (terrifying) series of calls from @EpsilonTheory
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On Russian state TV, Putin has already won the summit with Trump
How the Kremlin's propaganda is playing the Helsinki meeting.
After the crisis, Silicon Valley overtook Wall Street as the place to be
10 years after the financial crisis, Silicon Valley has replaced Wall Street as the job destination with the most cachet.
Ukraine 'paid Trump lawyer for talks'
Michael Cohen took at least $400,000 to arrange a meeting between Ukraine leader and Trump, sources tell BBC.
Review | Former intelligence chief’s argument that Putin did indeed sway the 2016 vote
James Clapper asserts that Russia’s election interference is a profound threat to America.
Mike Pence just showed why Trump can’t be trusted with pardon power
In the United States, no one should be above the law.
How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media
Earlier this month, CNN’s Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors to record a promo about “the troubling trend of irresponsible,...