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All hail the campaign book Slavery Abolition

All hail the campaign book

JEFFERSON DIDN’T SET out to write the first campaign book. He first published “Notes,” a sprawling work that surveyed his new nation and defended it to its European critics, in 1785, more than a decade before he ran for president.Presidential candidates in this period did not campaign in public, an…
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February 12, 2020
Why Jeff Bezos might run for president to spite Elon Musk and Donald Trump Elon Musk

Why Jeff Bezos might run for president to spite Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is suing Donald Trump over the Pentagon’s decision to award a lucrative military artificial intelligence and cloud services contract to Microsoft instead of his company. Normally these kinds of lawsuits are yawn-inducing, but this case has some interesting caveats. And, if you’ll let me set the…
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February 12, 2020
Netflix Reveals Worldwide List of Government Takedown Requests Jamal Khashoggi

Netflix Reveals Worldwide List of Government Takedown Requests

A still from Cooking on High Season 1. In 2018, the series was removed from Netflix in Singapore after demand from the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). (courtesy of Netflix)Because streaming rights vary across regions, Netflix’s catalogue may look different in other parts of the world. Beyond the platform’s algorithm,…
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February 12, 2020
Trump’s purge Venezuela

Trump’s purge

“If American democracy were to collapse,” Cornell political scientist Tom Pepinsky recently wrote, “you almost certainly wouldn’t notice it.” The past week has been a testament to just how right he was. While much of the country was preoccupied with the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, something remarkable happened: Every…
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February 12, 2020
‘The Iron Mask’ Trailer: It’s Jackie Chan vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, But Only for Maybe 5 Minutes Jackie Chan

‘The Iron Mask’ Trailer: It’s Jackie Chan vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, But Only for Maybe 5 Minutes

What kind of movie could bring together the likes of action legends like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan? A movie in which they probably won’t appear much at all. The Iron Mask, originally released in China in 2019 under the title Journey to China: The …
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February 12, 2020