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Book Review: Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People by Alex Sager Feudalism

Book Review: Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People by Alex Sager

In Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People, Alex Sager makes a timely and thoughtful case for a borderless world, grounded in the principles of freedom and equality. The book offers a compelling argument against borders as a means of unjustified exclusion, writes Marco Bitschnau, and is…
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May 19, 2020
Stock market news live updates: Stock futures little changed after mixed batch of earnings NASDAQ

Stock market news live updates: Stock futures little changed after mixed batch of earnings

Stocks ended the session lower on Tuesday, with Wall Street taking a breather from a three-session win streak, with investors digesting the gradual relaxation of coronavirus lockdowns and the latest batch of corporate earnings. On Monday, a trifecta of good news powered the Dow and S&P 500 Index to their…
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May 19, 2020
No Magic in Nuclear Buildup Nuclear Disarmament

No Magic in Nuclear Buildup

A Chinese tabloid editor recently proposed that China should rapidly expand its nuclear arsenal to 1,000 weapons, so as to cope with new security threats. The suggestion stirred the pot and had broad repercussions at home and abroad. To determine whether China should expand its nuclear arsenal quickly and substantially,…
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May 19, 2020
Why Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Good News For Blockchain Adoption Blockchain

Why Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Good News For Blockchain Adoption

Central banks are getting into the crypto game; that is a good thing for crypto and blockchain adoption. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Cryptocurrencies are rapidly becoming part of the mainstream investment conversation, but that does not mean that the development of new crypto options is slowing down. Even with…
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May 19, 2020
Trump Just Threatened to Withdraw From the WHO Unless ‘Major’ Changes Are Made Xi Jinping

Trump Just Threatened to Withdraw From the WHO Unless ‘Major’ Changes Are Made

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.On the day that China pledged $2 billion to the World Health Organization and announced the country’s coronavirus vaccines would be freely available to all, U.S. President Donald Trump declared war on the global health authority, threatening to…
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May 19, 2020
Alaskan Mountain Slope Has Become Unstable and May Collapse Producing a Tsunami Hundreds of Feet High, Scientists Warn Greenland

Alaskan Mountain Slope Has Become Unstable and May Collapse Producing a Tsunami Hundreds of Feet High, Scientists Warn

An unstable mountain slope in Alaska has the potential to suddenly collapse at some point in the next two decades, resulting in a rapid landslide and huge tsunami, a group of scientists has warned.The mountain slope is located above a fiord known as Barry Arm on the southern edge of…
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May 19, 2020
United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve California’s housing crisis Homeless

United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve California’s housing crisis

The acute pain of California’s housing crisis can be measured in the human toll it takes on the increasing numbers of families made homeless by rising rents and the billions of dollars the state loses to the high cost of living. After wrestling with recalcitrant homeowners, husbanding their parcels of…
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May 19, 2020