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The Washington Post’s publication of the Afghanistan Papers last month revealed that the Pentagon, under both Republican and Democratic presidents, misled the public “to make it appear that the United States was winning the war when that was not the ...
DATE: Jan 07, 2020
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In the Progressive Labour Party’s 2017 election platform, our party promised to extend paid maternity leave and introduce paid paternity leave. Recently, in the House of Assembly, I was proud to see that promised fulfilled with the passage of the Gov...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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Tinée Furbert
The long, shape-shifting shadow war between the United States and Iran’s Islamic Republic has taken a pivotal turn with the death of Qasem Soleimani, an infamous and iconic Iranian military commander, in a US drone strike.
By killing the architect o...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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I first met Clinton Smith in the early 1960s as a fellow student at Berkeley Institute, where his mother, Hyacinth Smith, served as school secretary.
His team-mates from that 1966 championship PHC Juniors football squad remember how Clint would be i...
DATE: Jan 06, 2020
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Glenn Fubler
The festive season —Christmas through new year’s — includes a mix of traditions, dating back two millennia.
That birth in a stable, speaks to the power of humility; a challenge to the current culture of hyper-consumerism and self-promotion. (small ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2020
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Glenn Fubler
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that the Middle East’s 2020 will be tumultuous. Libya’s civil war has taken a dangerous turn, with Russian mercenaries and Turkish forces joining the fray as General Khalifa Hifter’s forces push into the capital....
DATE: Jan 03, 2020
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“I have always found comfort in the confines of a book or manuscript,” Sonny Mehta, the editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf, said in 2018 as he accepted the Centre for Fiction’s Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Lifetime Achievement. “Reading is how I spen...
DATE: Jan 02, 2020
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Despite the proliferation of rainbow flags and queer parades, and fabulous groundbreaking television shows such as Modern Family, Pose and Transparent, transphobia is deeply rooted in America.
So, when a celebrity couple with a combined 30 million In...
DATE: Jan 02, 2020
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We know this much already: there will be an election next year. People will spend money, eat food, watch (and play) sports, use phone apps and play video games, and countries around the world will engage in diplomacy — and conflict. The details of al...
DATE: Dec 31, 2019
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People react so emotionally to politics, I have decided to assess the decade just past by considering something less partisan but no less illuminating: culture.
Start with the music I have been listening to over the past few weeks. Every December I b...
DATE: Dec 30, 2019
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AUTHOR:
Tyler Cowen
