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“Bad & Boujee” is how Kim Kardashian describes a photo of herself and friend Stephanie Shepherd sipping coffee from take-out cups and pretending to eat cookies, apparently taken on a disposable camera, but posted to Instagram. If they weren’t on Kim’s private jet, it’s the kind of photo you’d probably see on the Instagram feed of any young, …
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Click:electronic parts suppliers War graveyard from 1992-5 Bosnian war. Demoted/Sulejman Omerbasic.All rights reserved.The news of 35 people, including 14 babies and children, drowning in the Aegean Sea last week wrenched my heart. What does it take, I wondered, to make a mother lift her child onto a rickety, overcrowded boat? How does she swallow her fear? And …
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Much like the Trump presidency, Brexit started out as a joke and has since become all too real. It’s been nine months since Britain voted to leave the European Union, and while no major catastrophes have happened in anticipation of their imminent exit, it still seems highly unlikely transition efforts will go smoothly. On Thursday, …
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Jens Weidmann, President of Deutsche Bundesbank speaks on Rebalancing Europe, 2012. Wikicommons/Magnus Manske. Some rights reserved.In a recent paper, Guido Montani – professor of international political economy at the University of Pavia and former secretary general and president of the European Federalist Movement – takes a look at the recent clash between Greece and its …
I first smoked marijuana when I was thirty years old. I found it to be more fun than alcohol. And more spiritual. It reminded me why I became a Quaker. It helped me see the inner light in people. The next realization was that it was insane to make this simple plant illegal. In reading …
After traveling back from Jamaica during an appearance for Black History Month on February 7th, Muhammed Ali Jr., son of the legendary boxer, was detained and questioned by police following his return to the United States at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Ali Jr. was traveling with his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, who was briefly questioned until she …
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On 13 October 2005, Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, suffered the worst terrorist attack in the North Caucasus region since the Beslan school massacre in 2004. Gunmen carried out a series of coordinated attacks on the town’s military and public installations that claimed around the lives of 150 people, and injured over 100. These …
John Maeda’s work explores the intersection of business, technology, and design. A celebrated artist and technologist, he credits his winding career path—from academia (associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab and president of Rhode Island School of Design) to venture capital (advising startups as design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)—to always …
Eritreans land in Lampedusa, July 2015. Demotix/Carmine Orlando.All rights reserved.At a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, Angela Merkel declared that the Dublin Agreement is over. The principle of the agreement, which has dominated European migration policy for almost 20 years, is that whoever wants to claim asylum within the EU must do so at the …
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RAF Hawk aircraft. Jez/Flickr. Some rights reserved.20 years ago this week an action by three women to damage a Hawk jet soon to be exported from Britain to Indonesia was successful. On 29 January 1996, Joanna Wilson, Lotta Kronlid, and Andrea Needham were arrested and charged with causing over a million pounds' worth of damage, …
