Just before it was revealed that he (and many other Republicans) had been infected with coronavirus, President Trump announced that he aims to limit the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year to just 15,000.
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From Occupy to Antifa, why are anarchist ideas and tactics appealing to an ever broader, younger audience?
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"This is an invitation to come together across the world for a memorial carnival in the spirit of the one and only, David Graeber, who just left us so suddenly and unexpectedly.
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After months of downplaying the threat of the virus that has killed over 200,000 Americans (and, tragically, counting), the president and first lady have both tested positive for COVID-19.
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In his book Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique, Xu [Jilin] gives a wide-ranging analysis of China’s recent history. His main point is that China has headed down the dangerous path of historicism...
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The first presidential debate of the 2020 election was possibly the ugliest in the tradition's 60-year existence.
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Between 1999 and 2017, the world's biggest banks filed over 2,000 "suspicious activity reports" with American federal regulators.
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... and not always in a manner immediately evident to the survivors. In the 14th Century, the Black Death killed close to half of Europe’s population.
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In 2018, an Irish technologist named Dylan Curran downloaded the information Google had collected about him. All in all, Curran found, the corporation had gathered 5.5 GB of data on his life, or the equivalent of more than three million Word documents.
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American statesmen have breathed a lot of fire over the passage of Hong Kong's draconian, dissent-crushing national-security law. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in particular has been keen to lash out at China, the territory's increasing...
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