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More than 1,670, the number of official state symbols. Pending a vote by state legislators today, the shaka—the “hang loose” ...
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To the right are politicians who have spent years denouncing elite universities for being full of snowflakes who cannot bear exposure to different opinions, and are now trying to stretch the ...
On the opening day, navigating the human traffic eager to glimpse the mechanical marvels on display required the same tenacity as negotiating the Chinese capital’s gridlocked roads. Helpfully, the ...
But research on disinformation is limited in several key respects—studies tend to look only at campaigns in a single language, or on a single subject, for instance. And most glaringly of all, there is ...
Understanding it will lead to better ways to fight it ...
DONALD TRUMP likes a reason to boast. He recently mused about getting senior Republican lawmakers to officially support his third presidential campaign in the party’s primary elections. “[Such] a lot ...
His destination was Diddly Squat, a farm on the edge of the Cotswolds owned by Jeremy Clarkson, television presenter, near-national treasure and coiner of that evocative equine analogy. In barely a ...
But the subject of sex is being judged again—this time in Hollywood circles. Recently film-makers, critics and viewers have been debating the lack of sex on screen. Some feel that Hollywood has ...