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Book Review: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum Slavery Abolition

Book Review: The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum

In The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum offers a set of essays that take their cue from the Cynic and Stoic traditions to explore the tensions within the cosmopolitan ideal through the works of Cicero, Hugo Grotius and Adam Smith. Questioning the book’s positioning…
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February 5, 2020
The World Didn’t Understand How Bad Nuclear War Would Be Before This Exercise Hiroshima

The World Didn’t Understand How Bad Nuclear War Would Be Before This Exercise

Key Point: Someone leaked details to West Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper. According to the leaked info, targets in West Germany had borne the theoretical brunt of the exercise, with 268 of the 335 mock nuclear weapons detonating inside the country. Throughout the Cold War, the prospect of nuclear war hung over…
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February 5, 2020
New FOIA’d emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service’s #SharpieGate Hurricane

New FOIA’d emails reveal the chaos behind the scenes of the National Weather Service’s #SharpieGate

In early September 2019, President Donald J. Trump tweeted something dumb. Specifically, this time it was about the encroaching Hurricane Dorian, and the places that it would or would not hit. In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia,…
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February 5, 2020
Lessons from One Child Nation for Health Policy China's Social Credit System

Lessons from One Child Nation for Health Policy

By Katherine Drabiak The acclaimed One Child Nation, streaming on Amazon Prime, provides a haunting look at the reasoning, implementation, and consequences behind China’s (now revised) One Child Policy. Director Nanfu Wang expertly weaves together interviews from population health officials, medical professionals, and family members to describe how government policy…
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February 5, 2020
Two men found guilty after being filmed selling so-called ‘Kodi boxes’ at local market Pre-Crime

Two men found guilty after being filmed selling so-called ‘Kodi boxes’ at local market

Two men have been found guilty of “intentionally encouraging consumers ” to watch films and sports illegally through so-called ‘Kodi boxes’ that they were selling. Back in July 2017, an undercover team from Hertfordshire Trading Standards caught Thomas Tewelde and Mohamed Abdou selling “black box tv” devices at Bovingdon Market in…
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February 5, 2020
Democrats may have handed Trump his best week ever, and given him crucial momentum for reelection Barack Obama

Democrats may have handed Trump his best week ever, and given him crucial momentum for reelection

President Donald Trump's chances of reelection looked as if they were in trouble at the beginning of the year.But a series of errors by Democrats, as well as the perseverance of the US economy, have put the impetus behind the president as the presidential election gears up.On Monday the Iowa…
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February 5, 2020