The New York Timesadded this to OpinionHarvard Harvard’s False Path to WisdomThe New York Times - By DAVID BROOKSOver the past year and a half, the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., have handled themselves with a fervor and commitment that has, most of the time, inspired the nation.
Bloombergadded this to BloombergRecession How to Invest and Profit in the Next RecessionBloomberg - Barry Ritholtz Ever since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, investors have been treated to a stream of forecasts warning that another slump is right around …
Sarah McFallsadded this to Social AestheticsMannequins Plus-size mannequins reveal our warped perception of 'normal'CNN - By Holly Thomas(CNN) — Nike has introduced so-called "plus-size" mannequins at its flagship London store. They have been pictured in the shop wearing black crop tops and leggings, which has already prompted disgust some
MMark Mylesadded this to The Age of Trump Opinion (UK) Rebecca Grant: Hong Kong sends China a powerful message (and proves Trump is right)Fox News - Rebecca GrantHong Kong’s message to Beijing is loud and clear. That city won’t succumb to creeping Chinese control, and the rest of the world shouldn’t either. The crowds filling the streets between Hong Kong’s thin
Alexadded this to Flying: Stories from 36,000 feetLufthansa Lufthansa’s Superstar Pilot Goes from Hero to ZeroBloomberg - Chris Bryant If it’s true that all political lives end in failure, then the same could be said for business. Carsten Spohr became Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s chief …
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesJoe Biden Andrew Stein: Joe Biden stands for nothing except Joe Biden (and that ought to make Dems nervous)Fox News - Andrew SteinFormer Vice President Joe Biden stands for everything – and yet nothing. His all-consuming ambition is to become president of the United States and he has shown that he will take any position necessary
Bloombergadded this to Bloomberg20th Century Black Poverty Is Rooted in Real-Estate ExploitationBloomberg - Mark Whitehouse One question is -- or should be -- central to any assessment of the state of America: Why, more than a century and a half after slavery ended, does …
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesConservative View Steve Hilton: Forget Trump, Democrat hypocrites are corrupted by foreign lobbying and cashFox News - Steve HiltonThe entire political establishment has been consumed by pearl-clutching outrage over President Trump's comments on electon information from foreign government. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.: "The fact that president
Tom Cotton Tom Cotton is a maniacwashingtonexaminer.com - Jack Hunter When Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers were reportedly attacked in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, Republican foreign policy hawks eager for any …
NBC Newsadded this to THINKPolitics Evan Siegfried Trump's biggest risk in 2020 isn't losing young people. It's losing their grandparents.NBC News - Evan SiegfriedThe president may still win the majority of seniors but, if he does so by a significantly smaller margin, that spells problems in swing states. The Trump era has seen seismic shifts away from the Republican
CNNadded this to Top StoriesHong Kong Hong Kong protesters face a powerful enemyCNN - By Frida Ghitis(CNN) — The people of Hong Kong have secured a remarkable victory, but they have far more cause to worry than to celebrate. A cloud of anxiety hangs over Hong Kong's future. Their odds are daunting, their
The San Diego Union-Tribuneadded this to OpinionFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDr. Seuss Cypress tree believed to have inspired "The Lorax" has died - The San Diego Union-Tribunesandiegouniontribune.com La Jolla resident Dr. Seuss could see the landmark from his office window
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesConservative View Gutfeld on Trump refusing to leave officeFox News - Greg GutfeldWhat do you do when haters push apocalyptic fears about your next horrible move? You troll them. Which is what President Trump did to all those nervous Nancies, fretting that he may never leave office.
New York Postadded this to OpinionConservative View Woke apocalypse: the Oberlin College suitNew York Post - By Rich Lowry If there is one thing you learn about at Oberlin, the notoriously progressive liberal-arts college, it is surely privilege: white privilege, hetero …
Bloombergadded this to Planes and AviationDavid Joyce GE and Honeywell Stare Down a $74 Billion MonsterBloomberg - Brooke Sutherland United Technologies Corp. CEO Greg Hayes dropped the bombshell news of his company’s merger with missile-maker Raytheon Co. just days before the …
The Wall Street Journal.added this to OpinionSouth China Sea To Counter Beijing, the Best Option Is the G-7The Wall Street Journal. - Anders Fogh RasmussenThe U.S. and Europe are taking a stronger stance against China, but they don’t agree on the best way to combat Beijing—and are therefore setting themselves up for failure. Absent uniform rules and a united
Fox Newsadded this to Top StoriesConservative View Todd Starnes: Here’s a public school teaching kids to love America (Yes, you read that correctly)Fox News - Todd StarnesAndrew Burns grew up in New Jersey. He worked in the World Trade Center. Some of his friends died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. For the past 15 years, Mr. Burns has been teaching eighth-grade
The New York Timesadded this to OpinionScooters Scooter MadnessThe New York Times - By MARGARET RENKLNASHVILLE — Old friends of ours like to tell the story of the time they looked out their front window and saw a grown man propelling himself down their street on a child’s push scooter. Peeking over his
USA TODAYadded this to Top StoriesPorsche Porsche thinks you'll want your next car to be electricUSA TODAY - Klaus ZellmerElectric cars will soon be common on American roads, even Porsche thinks so. American consumers are about to adopt electric cars on a large scale. Look at the cars around you in traffic today and one stands
The Dallas Morning Newsadded this to OpinionDallas, TX Attack on Dallas courthouse marks first day for a new mayor...dallasnews.com - Dallas Morning News Editorial It was jarring in the sense that, this is the world we live in now. A man attacked an institution of law and justice that exists for the very purpose …
CNNadded this to VoicesGloria Vanderbilt Gloria Vanderbilt was the ultimate master of reinventionCNN - By Peggy Drexler(CNN) — Gloria Vanderbilt has died of cancer at the age of 95, her youngest son, the journalist Anderson Cooper, announced today. It marks the end of a life -- or, rather, of lives -- very well lived.
Harvard The case of Kyle Kashuv illustrates Harvard's intellectual rotwashingtonexaminer.com - Tom Rogan In the once-hallowed halls of Harvard University, there is now supplication to authoritarian China, adulation for leaders unwilling to defend the …
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeOpinion (UK) The historical argument for impeaching TrumpThe Guardian - Heather Cox RichardsonThe Republican-controlled Senate will almost certainly not vote to remove Trump from office no matter how convincing the evidence The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship
The New York Timesadded this to OpinionIran Trump Might Not Want War With Iran. Without Diplomacy He Will Get One.The New York Times - By VALI R. NASRThe United States was quick to blame Iran for last week’s attack on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Iran has denied involvement, and there is considerable skepticism around the world about American claims.
USA TODAYKirsten Gillibrand Gillibrand wants to silence anyone who is pro-life. That's dangerous: Today's talkerUSA TODAYDemocratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand revealed her authoritarian instincts when she compared abortion to racism says Phil Boas. Sometimes authoritarian diktats glide so smoothly off the
Diversity Removing portraits — a mistaken approach to promoting diversity in medicinebostonglobe.com - Jeffrey S. Flier The room was empty, and I snapped a photo of the bare walls. As the audience assembled, two senior professors greeted me. When I queried them about …
New York Postadded this to OpinionConservative View The ugly truth about sanctuary cities and other commentaryNew York Post - By Post Editorial Board At FoxNews.com, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan says sanctuary cities are “un-American, undermine public safety, put …
The Wall Street Journal.added this to OpinionIran The Case for Restraint in the GulfThe Wall Street Journal. - Walter Russell MeadThe latest crisis with Iran illustrates an important but widely neglected point about world politics: Amid all the talk about American decline, American power in the international system has actually Even
Bloombergadded this to BloombergPfizer Pfizer's $11 Billion Cancer-Drug Deal Takes Pricey Path to GrowthBloomberg - Max Nisen Pfizer Inc. is demonstrating once again how expensive it is for pharma firms to buy their way to growth. The company announced Monday morning that …
The Christian Science Monitoradded this to OpinionBeijing Hong Kong’s quiet message to Beijingcsmonitor.com - AP On Sunday, more than a quarter of Hong Kong’s residents, or about 2 million people, were out on the streets to defend the territory’s much-cherished …
