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Cancel Culture Is Not Real—At Least Not in the Way People Think
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:43:05 +0000
Author: Sarah Hagi
“Has cancel culture gone too far?” The question felt impossible to ignore this year. Google it and you’ll see pages of op-eds, often concluding, yes, it has gone too far, and the Internet mob is out of control. Cancel culture became so central to the discourse in 2019 that even President Obama weighed in. The…
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How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:39:34 +0000
Author: Anand Giridharadas
On March 29, 2003, at a wedding reception in the Harvard Faculty Club, Lawrence W. Reed gave a toast in honor of the friend whom he was serving as best man—one Joseph P. Overton. Overton had worked at Dow Chemical; he had since become an executive at a free-market, small–government think tank in central Michigan.…
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‘The Entire System Is Designed to Suppress Us.’ What the Chinese Surveillance State Means for the Rest of the World
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:39:19 +0000
Author: Charlie Campbell
Every morning, Mrs. Chen dons her bright purple tai chi pajamas and joins the dozen or so other members of Hongmen Martial Arts Group for practice outside Chongqing’s Jiangnan Stadium. But a few months ago, she was in such a rush to join their whirling sword-dance routine that she dropped her purse. Fortunately, a security…
Tanking Probably Won’t Make Your Team Better. Sorry.
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:37:19 +0000
Author: Sean Gregory
We live in odd athletic times. Losing has never been this fashionable. Look no further than the 2019 Miami Dolphins, who, as the season was about to kick off, traded two starters for a haul of future draft picks. The Dolphins decided, in modern parlance, to “tank,” or sacrifice the present for the potential of…
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Booker Rises, Biden Stays Afloat and Nobody Wants to Dwell on Impeachment. 10 Takeaways From the November Debate
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:06:09 +0000
Author: TIME Staff
For two hours on Wednesday night, America’s regularly-scheduled politics programming switched subjects. Rather than focusing on chaotic impeachment inquiry hearings in Washington, all eyes were on the 10 Democratic candidates who qualified for the November Democratic debate in Atlanta to make their case in a setting that remains ever-important for keeping their campaigns alive. While…
Singapore ‘Repatriates’ Hongkonger Who Held Political Meeting, Report Says
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:02:34 +0000
Author: Philip J. Heijmans / Bloomberg
The gathering of about 10 people reportedly shared their views on the escalating protests
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Why Cory Booker Said Joe Biden ‘Might Have Been High’ for Not Supporting Marijuana Legalization
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 06:04:58 +0000
Author: Tara Law
The exchange highlighted how far opinion on marijuana legalization has shifted
Gordon Sondland May Have Just Sealed President Trump’s Impeachment
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 05:32:30 +0000
Author: Brian Bennett
Gordon Sondland’s public testimony on Nov. 20 may very well mark the moment President Donald Trump’s impeachment by the House reached an irreversible momentum. The U.S. ambassador to the European Union and million-dollar Trump donor told Congress how he and other senior U.S. officials repeatedly asked the Ukrainian government to open two specific investigations in…
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California Agency Predicts the State Is on Track for a $7 Billion Budget Surplus
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 05:11:25 +0000
Author: Adam Beam / AP
However, nearly $2 billion of the projected surplus depends on an upcoming decision by the Trump Administration
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Aung San Suu Kyi to Lead Myanmar Team Contesting Rohingya Genocide Case at World Court
Created: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 04:36:31 +0000
Author: Associated Press
Myanmar’s military has been accused of carrying out mass rapes, killings and arsons against Rohingya
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