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The revelation left some of the Japanese MPs wondering how a man who, by his own admission, is not computer-savvy, could be charged with working on a task like cybersecurity legislation. Yoshitaka Sakurada, Japanese government minister responsible for revising the country’s…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The cost of the United States’ war on terrorism in the Middle East and South Asia since September 11, 2001, will soon exceed $6 trillion, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University said…
Before Barack Obama became president of the United States 10 years ago, he had an important task to complete — getting his wife’s approval to run for the White House. In a revealing new memoir published Tuesday, former first lady…
New York’s 14th Congressional District Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represents a number of gentrifying neighborhoods in Queens (plus some not-so-gentrifying neighborhoods in the Bronx) that are likely to see their housing markets affected by Amazon’s decision to locate a large corporate…
It sometimes feels like there’s nothing new to be said on the tedious topic of the role of racism in American politics, but Brian Schaffner a political scientist at Tufts offers this chart in a post for Data for Progress…
In Africa, there are two kinds of elephants: savanna and forest elephants. The species diverged somewhere between two and six million years ago, with the better-known savanna elephants spreading over the plains and open woodlands of Eastern, Southern, and Western…
