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The view from India: Link: https://youtu.be/Dc5SbL9O36Y by … Continue reading
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Originally from Australia, New York University School of Law Professor Philip Alston specializes in international law and heads the law school’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and since 2014 he has been the United Nations Special Rapporteur on … Continue reading
New York crime rates have fallen a lot in recent years, something some had attributed at least in part to a practice known as “stop-and-frisk.” This involved police officers stopping large number of people on the street based on what … Continue reading
At Vox, Dylan Matthews interviews former White House chief economist Jason Furman about the Trump budget proposal, which Furman finds alarming because while he has no problems with using large deficits to escape a serious recession, he doesn’t like President … Continue reading
Since the election (even before his inauguration) President Trump has made a number of announcements about jobs created or retained in the United States thanks to his policies, actions, and influence. The nonprofit investigative journalism group ProPublica has followed up … Continue reading
When Stephen Colbert shows a photo of someone in the news, he routinely gives an alternative description based on how they look in the picture, as in “White House spokesperson and angry woman behind you at Target Sarah Huckabee Sanders.” … Continue reading
Update 2018 February 7: The launch was successful in every respect but one: The middle of the three booster rockets failed to land on the floating platform as intended because one of the required engine firings didn’t happen. Interestingly, the … Continue reading
There is no official head of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or of its legal, financial, and enforcement divisions. There are other vacant top posts in the Departments of Defense, State, Energy, and Agriculture, as well as the … Continue reading
Friday the House Intelligence Committee released what has come to be known as the Nunes memo, a four-page criticism of the FBI’s investigation of Carter Page, someone who had been of interest to the bureau for years because of his … Continue reading
Novelist and vlogger John Green very succinctly raises the point that humans are often pretty good at dealing with emergencies but often a lot less good at dealing with long-term problems. (But see below.) Link: https://youtu.be/bpyhMMqwX8U Of course, John Green … Continue reading