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When such acts as this occur, we should rediscover the concept of personal responsibility.

This week, the Supreme Court of the United States is confronting yet again an issue that has bedeviled it for the past thirty years: the use of racial quotas by government-owned universities and private universities that accept government funding.

To commemorate 50 years of Title IX, Nebraska will celebrate a trailblazer in women's athletics at every home football game. Maurtice Ivy will be recognized and honored during the Minnesota game this Saturday.

DURHAM, NC - NOVEMBER 02: Jacob Grandison #13 of the Duke Blue Devils prepares to shoot a free throw during the second half of their game against the Fayetteville State Broncos at Cameron Indoor Stadium on November 2, 2022 in Durham, North Carolina. | Photo by Lance King/Getty Images

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The nearly 12-year-old agency is known for its work with Levi’s, Spotify, Sonos and more.

The chair of the influential group has become vacant. But what do we know about the City histories of the runners and riders?

The art gallery Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in Berlin outgrew its small space where it started as a young business wanting something more serious but at the same time still experimental for its new location.

Mehmet Oz, Republican Senate candidate for Pennsylvania, speaks during a community discussion on safer streets in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, on September 30. | Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The party’s closing argument is exploiting voters’ fears.

Another step in Lebanon’s drift away from Iran

The roughly three dozen adults at a Sunday afternoon pre-Halloween arts festival in a parking lot in Suitland, Maryland, weren’t expecting a speech. It was more than enough that Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore—on the cusp of a likely landslide victory that could make him only the third Black elected governor in U.S. history—cared enough to come and chat with them individually about affordable housing, mental health services, and shared college fraternities.

There’s no other way to put it: This week’s Israeli election, the fifth in less than four years, was a wipeout for the “coalition of change”—the left, center, and right that joined forces last year to defeat former Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu. Acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid has acknowledged as much and has already begun the transition process.

Over the weekend, Barack Obama made headlines for a barnburner of a campaign speech he gave on behalf of Democrats in Wisconsin.

It surely came as no surprise to anyone in the publishing industry when Judge Florence Pan blocked a proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster—the country’s two largest publishers—late on Halloween night. No one had any idea what the proposed entity would be named; surely “Penguin Random House & Simon & Schuster” would prove to be too much of a mouthful, even if it was shorthanded as, say, “PRH/S&S.” No matter: The fate of the proposed behemoth was made clear many months ago in the courtroom. Читать дальше...

I met Anthony Bourdain once, and really only in passing. It was 2013; he was nearing the height of his fame and power, having left his Travel Channel show No Reservations for the deeper pockets and larger audiences of Parts Unknown on CNN. I was the operations manager of a performing arts center in Pittsburgh at the time, and he was doing a live show with his friend and foil Eric Ripert. The performance was titled, cheesily but appropriately, “Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert: Good vs. Evil.”

Few have done more to change the climate paradigm than Rhiana Gunn-Wright. As an architect of the Green New Deal, Gunn-Wright was instrumental in expanding the limits of climate policy and telling a story far larger—and more inspiring—than that of how you can curb carbon emissions by taxing them. The Green New Deal’s vision: affirmative investment in green industries, decarbonization as an engine of economic growth, and racial equity and job creation at the center of the national project. Читать дальше...

The left has alienated America’s fastest-growing group of voters just when they were supposed to give the party a foolproof majority.

Fighting over the facts is unlikely to convince anyone.

Learning how to adapt to global warming will save lives and economies, yet most of the funding for climate change in Africa goes to outside research on mitigation

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Penguins suffer another meltdown for sixth loss in a row. Maybe Pens Points can cheer you up a bit,

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One of the most far-reaching Java 19 updates is the introduction of virtual threads. Virtual threads are part of Project Loom, and are available in Java 19 as a preview.

The in, out, and ref keywords are widely used keywords in C#. They allow us to create better abstractions for data types and methods, which in turn makes our code more readable and maintainable.

Pressure to convert land for carbon removal puts Indigenous communities at risk.

Spurred by the global pandemic, the Great Resignation saw an exodus of people from the workforce; over the past year, more than 4 million US employees each month have left jobs for a myriad of reasons.

 Over at Common Organic Chemistry, curated by Brian Struss, there are 57 new positions for October 29. The jobs can be viewed on the website or spreadsheet.