Post Overview
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Current Event
5 years ago+13 13 0Poland Marks an Anniversary, Not in Solidarity, but Division
Three decades after the first elections after Communism, a struggle over control of the narrative of the past could determine the country’s future.
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Video/Audio
5 years ago+16 16 0Rokiczanka - W moim ogródecku (Official HD Video)
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Analysis
5 years ago+17 17 0After Neoliberalism | by Joseph E. Stiglitz
For the past 40 years, the United States and other advanced economies have been pursuing a free-market agenda of low taxes, deregulation, and cuts to social programs. There can no longer be any doubt that this approach has failed spectacularly; the o ...
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Analysis
5 years ago+14 14 0A devastating analysis of the tax cut shows it’s done virtually no economic good
The Congressional Research Service says claims that the tax cut would turbocharge the economy were a scam.
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Expression
5 years ago+3 3 0Baseball finds itself with a real numbers problem
The official culprit last season was the weather, which Major League Baseball cited as a big reason for a 4 percent slide in attendance over the previous year. This season? Well, attendance is down once again — only this time there are new excuses.
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Current Event
5 years ago+28 28 0Pence puts his stamp on Trump health policy
Reuters has learned Vice President Mike Pence is asserting quiet but unmistakable influence over a sweeping White House push to use health policy to restrict access to abortion and contraception, both in the United States and around the globe.
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How-to
5 years ago+14 14 0How Long do USB Flash Drives Actually Last? - Ask Dave Taylor
Think your USB thumb drives / flash drives are going to last forever? Turns out that you'll be lucky if they retain data for five years. Here's why...
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Analysis
5 years ago+10 10 0BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, President Ulysses S Grant
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War
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Analysis
5 years ago+14 14 0Five Key Takeaways from the European Elections in Poland
by Daniel Tilles Poland’s European elections resulted in a clear victory for the ruling national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which won by an even greater margin than polls predi…
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Current Event
5 years ago+27 27 0Photographer 'overwhelmed' by eagle photo response
Steve Biro snapped the picture of 'Bruce' the bald eagle at a raptor conservation centre in Canada.
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Analysis
5 years ago+23 23 0Japan Then, China Now by Stephen S. Roach
Back in the 1980s, Japan was portrayed as the greatest economic threat to the United States, and allegations of intellectual property theft were only part of Americans' vilification. Thirty years later, Americans have made China the villain, whe ...
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Current Event
5 years ago+30 30 0Tony Horwitz, Prize-Winning Journalist and Best-Selling Author, Dies at 60
A Pulitzer Prize winner at The Wall Street Journal, he wrote the best sellers “Blue Latitudes” and “Confederates in the Attic” and seven other books.
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Analysis
5 years ago+40 40 0 x 1There won't be a cure for Alzheimer's disease in our lifetime
A century of research later, and we're still not sure what causes it
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Current Event
5 years ago+12 12 0Former Red Sox First Baseman Bill Buckner Dies At 69
The former All-Star and Gold Glove winner spent 22 years in the Major Leagues, but his career was overshadowed by a fateful mistake in the 1986 World Series.
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Analysis
5 years ago+33 33 0The Earth’s magnetic north pole is shifting rapidly – so what will happen to the northern lights?
As the Earth's magnetic north pole heads towards Siberia, concerns have been raised that the northern lights could move with it.
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Current Event
5 years ago+24 24 0Lawyers for Noah’s Ark theme park are suing its insurance company for rain damage
It did not rain for 40 days and 40 nights in Kentucky in 2017, but the deluge did damage the Bible-themed amusement park. Then its insurance companies refused to pay.
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Current Event
5 years ago+4 4 0Theresa May, Britain’s Prime Minister, Resigns: Live Updates
Mrs. May announced Friday morning that she would be stepping down, after repeatedly failing to win Parliament’s approval for a deal to withdraw Britain from the European Union.
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Analysis
5 years ago+4 4 0District Detroit: Inside the Ilitches' land of unfulfilled promises
Despite promises that the area would be transformed by 2017, more than a dozen of its 50 blocks are now more vacant than before
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Current Event
5 years ago+31 31 0Alabama Public Television decides not to air Arthur gay wedding episode
Alabama Public Television has chosen not to air a headline-grabbing episode of Arthur, because the recent instalment of the PBS children's show includes a same-sex wedding.
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Analysis
5 years ago+12 12 0How These Elite Civil War Marksmen Changed the Face of Warfare
Sharpshooters wore camo and hefted state-of-the-art rifles with longer, flatter trajectory