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Syrian rebels are closing in on Assad. What does it mean?

Slate

The resumption of large-scale fighting in Syria’s civil war affirms, once more, the wisdom of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who wrote that when “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed.” In Syria’s case, the region’s security arrangements fell apart, the delicate balance of power …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Trump trashed Biden's foreign policy — but his could be largely the same: NYT

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump railed against President Joe Biden's foreign policy, but as he enters the White House, Trump may end up agreeing more than he thinks. "Mr. Trump casts himself as Israel’s best friend in American politics, and he may give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wide latitude on security issues and his treatment of Palestinians. While the Biden administration often …

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1 month ago

Gladiator 2: Is this movie accurate history? No. But it’s good history.

Slate

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: No, the Romans never introduced sharks to the Colosseum. Without giving away too much of the plot of Ridley Scott’s new epic Gladiator II, the sequel to the beloved first installment that made Russell Crowe an icon back in the year 2000, one long action sequence does indeed revolve around flooding the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘I Am Kathalan’ movie review: Fast-paced cyber crime thriller ends up an average fare

The Hindu

If there exists a parallel world where losers are guaranteed to find salvation, Girish A.D’s characters would probably be the rulers of that world. Vishnu’s personality as someone who is not averse to using his technical knowledge for devious means is established early on, when he attempts a phishing attack on a female classmate’s social media account for his friend. …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Most consequential election in history: US presidential election on Nov. 5

Deccan Chronicle

The 2024 US presidential election will be the most consequential in history due to its global significance. The election will have a significant impact on the course of history, particularly regarding security and peace. The outcome of the election will also have a major impact on the world's economy and the US's global leadership. The race is so close that …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Mike Pence’s story is crucial to the Jan. 6 case against Trump. Can Jack Smith still use it?

LA Times

Then-Vice President Mike Pence presides over the joint session of Congress that certified the results of the 2020 election. Even before special counsel Jack Smith submitted his extensive and revealing recent brief in the Jan. 6 case, it was evident that Donald Trump’s statements to then-Vice President Mike Pence would become a crucial legal battleground. It focuses particularly on the …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

I Just Found Out I’m Going to Be a Dad. I Never Pictured Having to Raise Kids Like This.

Slate

This is part of Wedge Issues, a pop-up advice column about politics, running now through the election. Jerry Seinfeld has a bit in which he quotes Warren Beatty telling him: “One of the nice things God does is that he doesn’t let people who don’t have kids know what they’re missing.” Having experienced being a parent and not being a …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Monet and London – Views of the Thames review: An extraordinary feat

The Independent

Trends come and go, but Claude Monet is still jostling with Vincent van Gogh for the position of World’s Favourite Artist, just as he has been for the past 40 years. And advance demand for tickets for this exhibition of Monet’s London paintings suggests there’s still a huge public appetite for the work of the Father of Impressionism. With Van …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Activists question Karnataka government’s ambivalent stance on environment

The Hindu

Will the government’s directive to officials to recover encroached forest land in the Western Ghats limit itself to removing resorts and homestays or will it be part of a larger policy initiative to put a halt to infrastructure projects that have a negative bearing on ecology? This is the question being raised by environmentalists and activists after Karnataka’s Minister of …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

How Taiwan Conquered U.S. Politics — and Showed Europe How It’s Done

Politico

Hogan paraphrased her prodding him: “It seems like you’d be a great candidate in a general election, you could appeal to a wider audience like you did in Maryland, but it seems like it would be tough to get through the primary.” Partly because of the same calculus, Hogan chose not to seek the White House. Karla Jones, ALEC’s senior …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Greta Thunberg is detained by cops as pro-Palestine protesters try to storm Eurovision: Climate activist is hauled away as demonstrators clash with armed riot police outside final venue and yell 'Sham

Daily Mail

Greta Thunberg has been detained by Swedish police as pro-Palestine protesters try to storm Eurovision. Eden Golan performs Hurricane for Israel during the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden's Malmo Arena Her performance was met with a mixed response inside the arena, according to BBC commentator Graham Norton A defiant Eden Golan takes to the stage during the flag parade of …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Dutch Eurovision act Joost Klein is AXED from contest: Rapper, 26, is quizzed by police over 'backstage incident involving female member of production crew' - as bosses erect ring of steel ahead of to

Daily Mail

Eurovision Dutch contender Joost Klein has been axed from the contest after being quizzed by police over an incident involving 'a female member of the production crew'. The Dutch singer Joost Klein is seen on stage performing the song Europapa during the Eurovision semi-final on Thursday Joost Klein poses during a press conference prior to the final after the second …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Farrukh Dhondy | The Indian diaspora and fissures within: Why do Sunak & Co target UK refugees?

Deccan Chronicle

“O come with old Bachchoo and leave the rest Though Khayyam and Rumi are still the best He who tries and tries they say never dies -- So Bachchoo attempts poetic conquest.” From Aesop’s Goal, by Bachchoo There is no escaping the fact: I am part of what some characterise as the “Indian diaspora”. I mean targeting very prominent people …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Marijuana backers eye proposed federal regulatory change as an aid to legalizing pot in more states

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Following two previous failed attempts, …

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8 months ago

Pre-poll meeting: Farmers seek revision in norms determining agricultural loan, drought and flood relief

The Hindu

The State Sugarcane Farmers’ Association and the Federation of State Farmers’ Association have called for revision in norms that determine crop loans and scientific assessment of flood and drought relief through NDRF and SDRF. The farmers called for revision of the NDRF and SDRF norms for release of drought and flood relief funds and sought scientific basis for determining the …

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8 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Should Kamala Harris step aside as Joe Biden’s running mate?

LA Times

To the editor: If Vice President Kamala Harris wants to go down in history as a woman of integrity and wisdom, the first step is for her to let President Biden know that she is withdrawing as his running mate. By election day, she will have served almost four years as Biden’s right-hand woman. As president, Donald Trump messed up …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

DC Edit | Congress can't be ambivalent on core issues like secularism

Deccan Chronicle

The unusually lack-lustre rally sans party flags that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi led on his way to the Wayanad collectorate in Kerala where he submitted his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha election is a reflection of the bland politics his party has been practising for the last decades. At the peak of the election campaign in 2019, then BJP …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Should college essays touch on race? Some say affirmative action ruling leaves them no choice

LA Times

Hillary Amofa, a senior at Chicago’s Lincoln Park High School, says she was ambivalent about broaching the subject of race in her college application essay. “And I’m just like, this doesn’t really say anything about me as a person.” When the Supreme Court ended affirmative action in higher education, it left the college essay as one of few places where …

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9 months ago

Kim Gordon never fully said ‘Bye Bye’ to L.A. Why she’s back, with a TikTok hit to boot

LA Times

For Kim Gordon, returning to Los Angeles was once her least likely destiny. After we initially made something together, I was like, ‘OK, I like his sensibility.’” Her first track with Raisen was “Murdered Out,” a 2019 electronic beat of anxious foreboding with Gordon’s voice on edge warning: “Murdered out of my heart/Covered in black matte spray/Will you see when …

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9 months ago

2024 Lok Sabha election | Prakash Ambedkar remains ambivalent over MVA tie-up; will clear stand on March 26

The Hindu

Continuing to maintain an ambivalent stance towards forging an alliance with the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi president Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday said his party would announce its decision on March 26 on whether it would contest the Lok Sabha election independently or go along with the MVA. While Mr. Ambedkar hinted ominously that the VBA may not …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

I Wanted Another Child. I Wasn’t Sad When I Had a Miscarriage.

Slate

I knew there was an issue with the pregnancy during the first ultrasound appointment, before the technician told us anything was wrong. “Not everyone gets attached to a pregnancy from the get-go,” says Jessica Zucker, a psychologist specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health and the author of I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement. “Relief seems to follow …

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10 months ago

CM Pinarayi Vijayan says a vote for Congress is an endorsement of BJP

The Hindu

On Saturday, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the electorate should consider a vote for the Congress might inadvertently end up as an endorsement for the BJP. After laying the foundation stone of the Azhikodan memorial in Kannur, Mr. Vijayan said elected Congress representatives and their present and former allies have had no qualms about defecting to the BJP at …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Ayodhya as the Hindu Vatican

India Today

The name lights up a horizon of thought where the celestial meets the terrestrial—a rich, lambent, ambivalent zone. Prefixed by the negative ‘a-’ in a pattern common to Sanskrit, a-yodhya literally means ‘that which cannot be won in battle’, a place beyond the reach of the warrior’s sword. The metaphor reappears a few centuries later, circa 600 BC, in the …

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11 months, 1 week ago

US foreign policy: Biden’s legacy and the next president’s challenges

Hindustan Times

At the beginning of 2024, United States foreign policy finds itself at a crossroads with multiple pulls. The political and security dynamic resulting from this is likely to impact the US’s foreign policy posture and orientation for at least half a decade to come. China has been a defining foreign policy issue for the US and managing China’s growing military, …

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Syrian rebels are closing in on Assad. What does it mean?

Trump trashed Biden's foreign policy — but his could be largely the same: NYT

Gladiator 2: Is this movie accurate history? No. But it’s good history.

‘I Am Kathalan’ movie review: Fast-paced cyber crime thriller ends up an average fare

The Most consequential election in history: US presidential election on Nov. 5

Column: Mike Pence’s story is crucial to the Jan. 6 case against Trump. Can Jack Smith still use it?

I Just Found Out I’m Going to Be a Dad. I Never Pictured Having to Raise Kids Like This.

Monet and London – Views of the Thames review: An extraordinary feat

Activists question Karnataka government’s ambivalent stance on environment

How Taiwan Conquered U.S. Politics — and Showed Europe How It’s Done

Greta Thunberg is detained by cops as pro-Palestine protesters try to storm Eurovision: Climate activist is hauled away as demonstrators clash with armed riot police outside final venue and yell 'Sham

Dutch Eurovision act Joost Klein is AXED from contest: Rapper, 26, is quizzed by police over 'backstage incident involving female member of production crew' - as bosses erect ring of steel ahead of to

Farrukh Dhondy | The Indian diaspora and fissures within: Why do Sunak & Co target UK refugees?

Marijuana backers eye proposed federal regulatory change as an aid to legalizing pot in more states

Pre-poll meeting: Farmers seek revision in norms determining agricultural loan, drought and flood relief

Letters to the Editor: Should Kamala Harris step aside as Joe Biden’s running mate?

DC Edit | Congress can't be ambivalent on core issues like secularism

Should college essays touch on race? Some say affirmative action ruling leaves them no choice

Kim Gordon never fully said ‘Bye Bye’ to L.A. Why she’s back, with a TikTok hit to boot

2024 Lok Sabha election | Prakash Ambedkar remains ambivalent over MVA tie-up; will clear stand on March 26

I Wanted Another Child. I Wasn’t Sad When I Had a Miscarriage.

CM Pinarayi Vijayan says a vote for Congress is an endorsement of BJP

Ayodhya as the Hindu Vatican

US foreign policy: Biden’s legacy and the next president’s challenges