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Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Martin Sandbu Link: How to create a true common market for defence
Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Stuart Kirk Link: Do financiers believe in sustainability or not?
Fonte: The Economist Link: How to enhance humans
Not long before he sat in the front row at Donald Trump’s inauguration, Facebook’s co-founder Mark Zuckerberg made a video explaining why he was scrapping fact-checking on the platform. The election, he said, felt “like a cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech.” A few days later, in an interview with Joe Rogan, he […]
“It would be silly to think, in this time of spectacular fools, that the Donald Trump administration mandate to kill diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs was simply a workplace issue. What’s happening is bigger than that, says Vernā Myers, and it will have implications for years to come. The US government has declared war […]
“Newspapers have suffered some indignities over the past two decades. More than 3,200 of them have closed since 2005. More than 45,000 newsroom jobs, gone. Many of those remaining get gobbled up by vulture funds; their journalists take abuse at public meetings; and in many jurisdictions, politicians hatch strategies to strip them of a critical […]
A few weeks ago, as his administration embarked on a purge of the US government that evoked the mass firings and inquisitions of the 1950s, the American vice-president, JD Vance, took time out to explain to Europeans that, in fact, they were the ones who had a problem with ideological diversity. “In Britain and across […]
“The turbulent times took a massive toll on the U.S. education system, with student support varying dramatically among states, school districts and communities”. Fonte: Scientific American Autore: Lauren J. Young Link: How COVID Shaped a Resilient Generation of Kids
“Film-makers in China have long tried to find the secret sauce for movies that wow audiences while pleasing the Communist Party. The epics that evolved became known as zhuxuanlu, or “main melody” films, because they are in tune with the party line. But the heavy doses of patriotism that they usually involve have fallen out […]
The idea of America as an exceptional nation is often expressed by the phrase “a shining city on a hill.” But people forget how John Winthrop first used this description in 1630 as he addressed his ship of Pilgrims setting sail for the New World: “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the […]
