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Evidence of Biden’s wrongdoing is considerable

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed this week that “there is precisely zero evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever” by President Joe Biden. The Associated Press asserted Republicans are “claiming without evidence that [Joe and Hunter Biden] engaged in an influence-peddling scheme.”

UAW on strike after union negotiations with Big Three fail

Autoworkers launched a historic strike on Ford, General Motors and Stellantis early Friday morning after union negotiations failed. The United Auto Workers and the “Big Three” carmakers failed to reach an agreement before the workers’ contracts expired at midnight, triggering the first simultaneous strike by UAW workers against all three auto giants. The economic cost...

Rahm Emanuel’s Next Chapter

As ambassador to Japan, he is quickly making himself one of Beijing’s top antagonists — the White House’s attack dog in the Indo-Pacific.

Tibet Goes Carbon-Neutral

The Chinese Communist Party’s repression in Tibet has escalated in recent months, but there’s a silver lining that might please some Western environmentalists.

Trump says he was ‘given an option’ to pardon himself, but declined

Former President Donald Trump said that he had been given the option of issuing a blanket self-pardon before leaving the White House in January 2021.

Forget the hype on French cooking, throw away the Michelin Guide, and grab some Italian

With three caveats, Italian food puts French food to shame.

East-West crackup

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Perhaps this was true of Fitzgerald when he wrote “The Crack-Up,” his 1936 essay on how he lost the plot. Perhaps he had already lost the plot. Anyone can function while holding two opposed ideas at the same time. The easy way to do this is to deceive yourself.

Zadie Smith’s new novel The Fraud is more admirable in attempt than execution

In her first work of historical fiction, the author's good skills aren’t always enough to get around the book’s problems.

Plastic people worry over silicon minds

Artificial concerns about artificial intelligence are only natural.

Your smart car is spying on you

All the data are collected and then sent to the car companies that sell your data to third parties.

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