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Despite these recent wins, the number of women in US government is still well below proportional representation of women living in the US. And that underrepresentation has very real policy consequences. Having women better represented can actually change the conversations…
Twenty-two-year-old financial analyst Zainub Amir moved to New York City from Albany last June, around the time that her Taylor Swift news account @SimplySFans celebrated its seventh birthday on Twitter. The account has 124,000 followers as of this writing, but…
The Berlin-based cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen’s new book, “Parallel Lives,” which will be published in December, is a dazzling and disorienting collection of four short stories detailing the author’s interactions with the future. Schrauwen artfully weaves himself into and out of…
BERLIN (Sputnik) – Russia’s Gazprom energy giant does not aim to cover all Europe’s gas needs, so there is a place for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States and other sources, Gazprom Management Board Deputy Chairman Alexander Medvedev…
BEIJING (Sputnik) – Russia may partially replace the United States as the lead exporter of soybeans to China, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday during his visit to China. “Soybeans are a very popular crop in China. The Chinese…
As the United States continues to slap Iran with sanctions, Washington allowed several countries, including South Korea, to purchase certain limited amount of Iranian oil without fear of reprisal. The governments of Iran and South Korea have agreed to forgo the use…
