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The government is to formally adopt a definition of what constitutes antisemitism, which includes over-sweeping condemnation of Israel, with Theresa May saying the measure will help efforts to combat hate crime against Jews. Britain will become one of the first countries to use this definition of antisemitism, as agreed last May at a conference of…
LONDON Britain said on Monday it would become one of the first countries to adopt an international definition of anti-Semitism to clamp down on hate crime after an increase in the number of reported incidents targeting Jews. Adopting the definition formulated in May by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is meant to make…
Fast 8 is now The Fate of the Furious, brilliantly, and the first full trailer gives us our first good look at what the Fast and Furious series’ post-Paul Walker existence is going to look like. There is also a showdown involving snowmobiles and tanks on ice, which explains the equally great Japanese title Wild…
President-elect Donald Trump is about to inherit a newly empowered Voice of America that some officials fear could serve as an unfettered propaganda arm for the former reality TV star who has flirted for years with launching his own network. Buried on page 1,404 of the National Defense Authorization Act that passed last week is…
END CLASS=”PROGRAM-BLOCK” END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” President-elect Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that school choice is “the new civil rights issue of our time.” But to many Americans, talk of school choice isn’t liberating; it’s just plain confusing. Exhibit A: Vouchers. Politicians love to use this buzzword in perpetual…
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Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” To many white Trump voters, the problem wasn’t her economic stance, but the larger vision—a multi-ethnic social democracy—that it was a part of. Google Metadata Mitch Dumke / Reuters Perhaps the clearest takeaway from the November election for many liberals is that Hillary Clinton lost because she ignored…
In the half millennium since a broke German blacksmith invented movable type, innumerable reformers and politicians have attracted public support through books, pamphlets, and broadsheets. From Martin Luther nailing his theses to a Wittenberg Church, to the federalist papers of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, to Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope, these works conveyed…
Warning: This post contains spoilers for “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” Not about the last four words, but about a lot of other things. Read at your own risk. If Rory is your favorite “Gilmore Girls” character, then I am very sorry because that revival couldn’t have been easy for you to watch….