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Close your eyes and picture an electric vehicle. Ok, was it small? Expensive? Both? A lightweight hatchback, perhaps? Maybe a sporty Tesla? Here’s what it probably wasn’t: a bus. But maybe it should be. Buses—yes, those hulking, huffing hunks of metal—are set to lead the electric vehicle transition. Within a few years, it’s likely that electric buses …
A father covers the face of his daughter with a wet towel after she was teargassed by armed Zimbabwean police in Harare, Monday, July, 4, 2016. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi / Press Association. All rights reserved.On Wednesday 6 July, while international mainstream media focused on South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ sentence for murder, Zimbabweans engaged in the …
Students graduating college today are often faced with crushing debt and an enormously competitive job market. The answer for many recent grads is simply to go back to school; getting a master’s degree has been shown to lead to higher paying jobs. The only catch: getting a master’s in the United States can be prohibitively …
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Ashish Ghadiali,Tariq Ramadan and Moazzam Begg in studio conversation about 'The Confession', 2016. All rights reserved.Rosemary Bechler (RB): This summer you have been on tour around Britain with showings of your documentary film, The Confession, followed by studio chats with Moazzam Begg – what drew you to this man and this process? Ashish Ghadiali (Ashish): …
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Back-to-school season is just around the corner, which means the nation’s cash-strapped campuses will soon be asking moms and dads to help out with fundraisers. And in turn, parents who want their kids to have the resources and supplies they need at school will shamelessly harass their family members, friends, and coworkers, asking them to …
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A man raises his hand in Google office.Mark Lennihan /Press Association. All rights reserved. Large Internet corporations are increasingly exerting an influence over the social and political aspects of our lives as well as economically influencing the marketplace. Google is foremost among them as a very large and very pervasive private actor in the online …
Construction underway in the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim near Jerusalem. Picture by Xinhua SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved. The recent resolution passed by the Israeli parliament (Knesset), which seeks to introduce an amnesty for some 50 Israeli outposts built illegally in the West Bank, is likely to further exacerbate relations between Israel and the …
“That school is brutal. The teachers are hammers and the students are the nails.” That’s what one parent told me when I asked how his son liked his middle school — the same school my son would be starting the following day. Instead of feeling better, or at least not worse, about moving my son from his …
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The corpse of Russia’s ambassador Andrey Karlov arrives in Moscow, 20 December. (c) Valery Sharifullin / RIA Novosti. All rights reserved. The assassination of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara is not just an individual crime and tragedy, it may also be a symptom of a wider trend. Western doomsayers have rushed to talk about …
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By now, you’ve heard the story: White nationalist protesters assembled in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend around Emancipation Park, where a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, was set to be taken down. The protesters carried torches, and the rally quickly turned violent; a woman died and 19 people were injured when radical extremist James …
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