Are there Reds in your bed?
Oh, not to be young and Russian in Washington DC, “Politico” reports: Nothing prepared the young Russians of Washington for the wintry blast of social isolation and suspicion that followed …
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“America is moving toward an oligarchical socialism”
This might be the most important piece you will read today, or maybe this week, from my favourite urbanist and demographer Joel Kotkin: Oligarchal socialism allows for the current, ever-growing …
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Are you a sexual racist?
Everything is racism nowadays, so you won’t be surprised to discover that your sexual preferences and physical attractions can be bigoted too: One evening while browsing the wildly popular gay …
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No regulation out of frustration
This sounds more like trolling than a serious proposal, but nowadays you never know: President Donald Trump is considering new regulations on Google’s search engine to address his concern that …
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Good News from Everywhere
If you are depressed from reading the daily news, it’s nothing new – “if it bleeds, it leads” as an editorial philosophy that much predates the Trump presidency or for …
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Big Zuck is watching you
We get to rate websites (well, pretty much everything), it’s only to be expected that they rate us back: Facebook is rating users based on how “trustworthy” it thinks they …
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Finding love in all the wrong places
There has been a large shift in how we find partners: As early as 2010 the internet had overtaken churches, neighbourhoods, classrooms and offices as a setting in which Americans …
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From Russia without love
Facebook’s drive towards absolute transparency – of its users, of course, not of Facebook itself; don’t be silly! – continues: Anyone who manages a Facebook page that has a “large …
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Nothing new under the sun
It’s hard to be original in a world where everything has seemingly been tried and done before. Photography is no exception. Case in point – insta_repeat account on Instagram, which …
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Out of your league
New research from the University of the Obvious sheds light on our online dating habits: Most people who use online dating websites seek partners who are out of their league, …
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Right-wing censors versus left-wing book burners
Won’t somebody please think of the Constitutional children? By which I mean the Amendments, and especially the 1st one. Free speech is under attack, both in theory and in practice. …
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Profiles in corporate courage
The tech giant kow-tows before the Chinese government: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about …
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The myth of political civility
The two statements below are equally true: 1. The Left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, from screaming at the sky to the now routine comparisons with Nazi Germany, seems particularly hysterical and …
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