Culture

How Did the Presidential Campaign Get to Be so Long?0
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- July 30, 2019
Four hundred and thirty-two days prior to the election and 158 days before the Iowa caucus, millions of Americans will tune in for the second round of Democratic debates. If this seems like a long time to contemplate the candidates, it is. By comparison, Canadian election campaigns average just 50 days. In France, candidates have
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Communism and Nazism Are Now Legally Synonymous in Ukraine 0
- Culture
- July 29, 2019
Their names still haunt us. Chelmno. Belzec, Sobibor. Treblinka. Auschwitz. Dachau. Majdanek. They stir images of the horrors of Nazi killing centers, where millions of Jews, Poles, Soviet POWs, and gypsies were systematically killed in one of the great horrors of the twentieth century. For many of us, this imagery is associated exclusively with Hitler
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How to Do Well at a New Job – in Five Easy Steps 0
- Culture
- July 29, 2019
Can we please talk about how utterly awful starting a new job can be? No matter how wonderful your new coworkers are, how wonderful and understanding your new boss is, or how appealing your improved salary looks, the fact remains that, within mere moments of walking in the door on Day One, you are quite
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Children Deserve Better Than ‘Baby Shark’1
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- July 29, 2019
Earlier this month, news broke that officials in Florida were blasting the children’s song “Baby Shark” on a loop to discourage homeless people from sleeping in a local park. In other words, that song is considered to be unbearable. It will drive anyone away. American parents – or probably just any American, parent or not
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Would a Marriage Proposal Ruin Your Graduation Day?0
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- July 29, 2019
When Edgaras Averbuchas successfully proposed to Agne Banuskeviciute at her graduation ceremony, both were delighted. The romantic moment at Essex University, where Ms. Banuskeviciute received her Master’s degree in English, was filmed and posted on the university’s website to celebrate their engagement. Then something weird happened. A couple of feminists called down fire and brimstone on Edgaras for “hijacking”
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A Modest Proposal for Reducing Pornography AND Saving the World From Climate Change 0
- Culture
- July 26, 2019
You might think that watching cute kittie videos on YouTube is as harmless as it gets. You’d be wrong. Online video is destroying the Amazon jungle, melting glaciers in Greenland and kindling wildfires in California. There’s no video without electricity. And no electricity without carbon emissions. Stored in data centres, videos are transferred to our
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