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2017 was a year that overturned many long-held sociopolitical certainties. Remember when Republicans liked free trade? Or when liberals liked free speech? Such fond memories. We can add yet another demolished certainty to the list: the political left, after centuries…
Smokers, George Will says, lack “common sense.” In a late December opinion column in the Washington Post, Will declared, “Filling one’s lungs with smoke from a burning plant is dumb.” Yet in our digital age where people are eternally “plugged…
During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump once again heralded the black unemployment rate, which, at 6.8 percent nationally, is at its lowest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics first began breaking unemployment numbers down…
One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, as he delivered his first State of the Union address, he has more or less abandoned his outspoken pledges to bring down the cost of America’s medicines, the highest in the world. “Despite continuing…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The first flight of Falcon Heavy, the powerful rocket manufactured by the US Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) company, is planned for February 6, the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday. “Aiming for first flight of Falcon…
By unmasking the “snake-tactics” of false news sources, the Pope called on humanity to counter the “biased and baseless ideas” hidden behind “digital profiles.” Calling on news consumers to step aside from online echo-chamber opinion mongering, Pope Francis stepped into the fake news debate…
