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While Claire has been to Morocco, the others in the group have not. As cinema can provide insights into cultures and societies, I told the Zoom class on Sunday that I would draw up a list of good Moroccan films for those interested. Just about all are serious art house-type films that ...
Those of you with strong memories or a taste for the improbable may have realized that all of them come from thefirstspeech the new President Trump delivered to Congress eight years ago. A look back at that address is a bracing reminder of how astonishing the shift has been in the politica...
The results of the election in France have set the stage for potentially lengthy coalition negotiations and contentious governance in the coming years. Some observers have questioned NFP’s ability to govern without disintegrating, pointing to the fact that the previous leftist coalition, the New Ecol...
The question of responsibility and technology is both smaller and larger than the question of ethics and technology. On the one hand, an examination of moral responsibility in the making and using of artifacts and artifact systems is only one aspect — t
“President Joe Biden added more Chinese companies to the off-limits list late Thursday making it a total of 59 in a move that updated an order signed by former President Donald Trump in 2020 where 31 were originally listed, the Associated Press reported. Biden said the update is to “ensur...
Putin’s goals have gone in a matter of days from sorting out Cold War borders to “the restoration of a triumphalist, imperialistic Russian identity, or another bloodstained nationalistic surge to cover for the criminality of his regime, or whether he just has come egotistically unmoored.” ...
The significance of education has not changed, yet in comparing the current results, America ranks toward the bottom of the list of developed nations even though we continue to spend vast amounts of resources on educating our children. April 17: Fox News: SCOTUS poised to address the ...
“weaponization of the federal government” has been possible only because of the “deep state of entrenched Leftist bureaucrats.” He said he was proud to support the work of American Accountability Foundation workers “in their fight to hold our government acco...
You don’t need to look up at the wall of framed reviews to believe that Long Beach’s Ammatolí is critically acclaimed (it has made it onto this publication’s list of L.A.’s 101 best restaurants more than once). You also don’t need to know that the restaurant is so popular ...