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Peter Handke Nobel Prize controversy: Literature can’t be judged on esthetics alone Genocide

Peter Handke Nobel Prize controversy: Literature can’t be judged on esthetics alone

Austrian writer Peter Handke received the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature. The award is for “a writer’s life work,” and Handke has written novels, travelogues, theatre plays, screenplays and poetry. Hundreds protested the award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. This was not an isolated protest. Literature laureate 2019 Peter…
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January 27, 2020
How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news [Social Sciences] Filter Bubble

How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news [Social Sciences]

Research has prominently assumed that social media and web portals that aggregate news restrict the diversity of content that users are exposed to by tailoring news diets toward the users preferences. In our empirical test of this argument, we apply a random-…
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January 27, 2020
Tom Perez Stacks 2020 Convention Committees With ‘From the Swamp’ Nominations Venezuela

Tom Perez Stacks 2020 Convention Committees With ‘From the Swamp’ Nominations

"Where would you stick the knife in?"—2020 Democratic Convention Rules Committee nominee John Podesta, referring to candidate Bernie Sanders in 2016 DNC chair Tom Perez recently presented his nominations for the 2020 Democratic Convention standing committees. The full list can be seen here. If you think the Democratic Party as…
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January 27, 2020
Capitol Report: Economic hit from coronavirus likely to be short lived, but it’s still ‘a little scary, frankly’ Chinese Economy

Capitol Report: Economic hit from coronavirus likely to be short lived, but it’s still ‘a little scary, frankly’

The threat of China’s coronavirus triggering a global contagion has put a scare into Wall Street, but pandemics and other disasters have rarely had a lasting effect on the U.S. or global economies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.09%  sank more than 1% in Monday trades on fresh angst…
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January 27, 2020
The little known Holocaust memorial built by German schoolchildren that inspired a civil rights activist Berlin Wall

The little known Holocaust memorial built by German schoolchildren that inspired a civil rights activist

An American civil rights activist whose life is the subject of a new Hollywood film has told how he was inspired by a little known Holocaust memorial built by German primary school children.  Bryan Stevenson, whose struggle against racism has been turned into the movie Just Mercy, told how a…
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January 27, 2020