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British Prime Minister Theresa May’s meeting last Friday with President Emmanuel Macron of France is part of a wider effort to sell her Chequers plan for Brexit to European Union heads of government — and to loosen the grip of Michel Barnier, the uny...
DATE: Aug 07, 2018
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Sixteen years from now, when my son applies to college, odds are that he will not be asked about his race or where his parents went to college. He will confront a starkly different admissions landscape than I did in the early 2000s, when many univers...
DATE: Aug 07, 2018
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It is 2018 and much of the world is still trying to justify why fathers matter. The United States does not federally mandate parental leave of any sort, bracketing it with countries such as Surinam and Papua New Guinea. Large swaths of Asia, includin...
DATE: Aug 06, 2018
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The Wall Street Journal recently served readers this slap-in-the-face headline: “You’re Not as Smart as You Think”. The piece was written by two psychologists, Christopher Chabris and Patrick Heck, detailing a new study they and another colleague pub...
DATE: Aug 06, 2018
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Even before he arrives in Northern Virginia, the new fire chief for one of the country’s wealthiest suburbs heard the reason some people do not want him there: his skin colour.
The hoods and robes of today’s bigots are anonymity and wi-fi.
And in Fai...
DATE: Aug 04, 2018
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Petula Dvorak
We join annually with communities across the world in marking the moment in which the crime of chattel enslavement was confronted and uprooted from our existential realities. For us, the moment is August 1; other dates are determined elsewhere and of...
DATE: Aug 01, 2018
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Not so long ago, politicians had “favourite” economists. Margaret Thatcher’s was Milton Friedman. John F. Kennedy’s was probably John Kenneth Galbraith. President Bill Clinton had a Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, in residence at the ...
DATE: Aug 01, 2018
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Whenever Rudolph Giuliani makes a new round of television appearances saying false, curious or just bizarre things in defence of his client, Donald Trump, some people inevitably ask why he keeps getting invited back on these programmes. But there is ...
DATE: Jul 31, 2018
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Imran Khan, whose university idols used to be Mick Jagger and Karl Marx, once described himself to me as a “humble sinner” in an interview.
We were sitting in the sylvan surroundings of his Bani Gala residence, a mansion built at the top of a steep h...
DATE: Jul 30, 2018
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Why is Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting three small African countries on his first state trip of 2018?
This week Xi, will be in Johannesburg for a summit of the leaders of the five Brics emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and Sout...
DATE: Jul 27, 2018
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