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“For a court leadership that has been an aggressive proponent of transparency and openness (think live streaming), this was a remarkable moment to choose to go private.” Sameer Khosa at
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Simon Rosenberg has spent the past two years telling Democrats they need to calm down. His Biden-will-win prediction is his next big test. Adam Nagourney in The New York Times: Simon
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Jerry Saltz at Vulture: In the year 286, Emperor Diocletian began to formalize a division of the Roman Empire into two parts. The Western Roman Empire would go on to
In the view of renowned US author and critic Jed Perl, Alexander Calder remains America’s greatest sculptor. Easel Contributing Editor Morgan Meis talked to Perl about his biography of Calder
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On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown
New ‘Civil War’ Poster Divides America Into Warring Factions by Britta DeVore at Collider: The battle lines are being drawn in a new poster for Alex Garland’s upcoming sci-fi action,
Today they’re recruiting for the Corps of the Undead;in fetid cubicles they anticipate more dead. The Wagner Group has left, so they hit the Taco Bells.Salmonella casualties lead to eight
“We need to worry about the many small catastrophes that AI can bring.” Ethan Mollick at TIME: Conversations about the future of AI are too apocalyptic. Or rather, they focus
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Eighty percent of successful CEOs come from within their companies, but many of them think like outsiders. The New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence is based on 67 interviews with
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Peter Gordon in the Asian Review of Books: How is a reviewer, faced with (yet another) excellent short-story collection, supposed to convey to readers a convincing rationale for “why this
by Dr. Masud Isa from Australia: Once all villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer, all the people gathered, but only one boy came with an
An estimated $30 trillion in corporate revenues will arise from products that have not yet reached the market. Keeping your eye on where value comes from is still the name
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