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One Year of WayV: The Chinese Pop Group on Fanboying, Shrek, and Their Vision for the Future Korean Peace Talks

One Year of WayV: The Chinese Pop Group on Fanboying, Shrek, and Their Vision for the Future

One year ago, Chinese pop group WayV made its debut with a plan laid out in the lyrics of its first single: “With my team, we are not surrendering,” they sang on “Regular." “The dream is gripped tight in my hands and lights up the visions I imagined.”In the past…
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January 20, 2020
From ‘Ugly’ Sandals to Square Toes: 13 Fashion and Shoe Trends That Everyone Will Be Wearing in 2020 Caroline Daur

From ‘Ugly’ Sandals to Square Toes: 13 Fashion and Shoe Trends That Everyone Will Be Wearing in 2020

The start of a new year always inspires a refresh on trends — it is the season of resolutions, after all. With the end of a decade, we were eager to summarize what made 2010’s fashion (Dad shoes, white sneakers; less recently, that whole era of the platform p…
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January 20, 2020
The Great U.S.-China Tech Divide Alibaba

The Great U.S.-China Tech Divide

In terms of technology, the world had been unifying for years. Now it is reverting back to the likes of the VHS-versus-Betamax era, with much bigger consequences. Imagine two countries with completely different sets of hardware and software for the internet, electronic devices, telecommunications, and even social media and dating…
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January 20, 2020
THE 1619 PROJECT ON MLK DAY: “One of the many odd things about the New York Times‘s ‘1619 Proj… 1619 Slavery

THE 1619 PROJECT ON MLK DAY: “One of the many odd things about the New York Times‘s ‘1619 Proj…

THE 1619 PROJECT ON MLK DAY: One of the many odd things about the New York Timess 1619 Project on slavery is that Martin Luther King Jr is barely mentioned (ditto Frederick Douglass). This omission may not be accidental, since both Douglass and King found sou…
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January 20, 2020