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Bernie Sanders to a meeting at the evangelical Liberty University, founded by Jerry Falwell: “Are you content? Do you think it’s moral that twenty percent of the children in this country, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, are living in poverty? Do you think it is acceptable that 40 percent of African-American children …
Our brains are large partly because we carry around with us from childhood a huge amount of general knowledge – of history, literature, geography, music, you name it. Will the collective human brain shrink in the coming decades? I ask this because, with an unprecedented amount of information available at the touch of a Google, …
Last February an Alabama police officer was indicted on a charge of using unreasonable force against an Indian man, Sureshbhai Patel, 57. Patel had come from India to help care for his infant grandson; he was stopped by police on the morning of Feb. 6, after a neighbor reported what they thought was a suspicious figure. …
“Not all sexual assaults are equal. Violent rape is not the same as psychologically coercive sex, which is not the same as regrettable sex, which is not the same as fielding an unwanted kiss at a party. All of these experiences are bad, but they lie on a spectrum ‘ranging from truly horrific to merely …
The UK has a productivity problem, it appears. Some of the least productive are senior executives in the City of London, who, I am told, are always on vacation. Blame private school holidays, Ascot, Wimbledon, Glyndebourne, Henley, which account for June and half of July. There are other excuses. But the real reason that the …
