As the first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama was a controversial figure whose detractors often highlighted the racial divide in America. His campaigns were marked by debates about his birth certificate and controversies over things like his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. His ...
With no hate in my heart, I wish him nothing but the best,” she wrote. The next day Ne-Yo posted a statement to Twitter, writing, "For the sake of our children, my family and I will work through our challenges behind closed doors. Personal matters are not meant to be addressed ...
deepfakes, the tesla backlash, and all things chips this week on uncanny valley, our hosts talk about three big stories from february. lauren goode framework’s laptop 12 could inject new life into budget portable pcs budget windows laptops still suck. framework’s upcoming repairable an...
Initially presiding over a collective leadership as first among equals, by the 1930s he was the country's de facto dictator. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies are known as ...
“Faced with ethics controversies and aplungein public trust, they were debating rules for their own conduct, according to people familiar with the process,” The Times adds, revealing that “behind the scenes, the court had divided over whether the justices’ new...
“Buy the paper back and read it” –excellent advice but please, let’s stop saying buy the paper back – all exam papers for English quals are free to view with the permission of the student and have been for some time. With this in mind – please consider doing this before asking ...
There are plenty of fans around the country who prefer college football over the NFL. Sure, it’s not Alabama or Ohio State, but the Thursday night slate is a great way to engage those who don’t want to wait until Saturday for their favorites to take the field. After all, these game...
We are trying something a little different on this episode ofDecoder— we’re doing a little crossover with one of my favorite podcasts,Switched on Pop, a show about how popular music is made. I asked my friend Charlie Harding, one of the co-hosts, to come onDecoderand walk me through...
After N.W.A, the controversies surrounding rap started falling in two camps, as rappers struggled to negotiate the pressures and expectations of a rapidly maturing form of pop music. There were concerns of origin (the authenticity debate—are they “real”?) and of the ...
In Allen's and Herring's view, banking regulatory policies and securities regulatory policies are directed at fundamentally different problems. They view bank regulation as being directed at systemic risk, which may be loosely defined as risk faced by the financial system as a whole, distinct from...