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Presented practically without comment.  Monday was an emotional day at Twitter — even for its executives. Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the powerful social media platform, top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde called a virtual meeting with the policy and legal teams she oversees to discuss what the new ownership could mean for them. Gadde…

The Eurocrats are celebrating, but I’m not sure that they ought to be. Yes, the French will have to put up with more Macron, but Marine Le Pen has been gaining fairly steadily. In 2012, she couldn’t break out with less than 18%. Last time around, she made it to 33% against Macron, and this…

Watching France’s election, albeit from behind geographic and linguistic barriers, I have to wonder what the outcome would have been if the Ukraine war had never happened. It’s absurd to think that this would even be a major election issue in France, which isn’t exactly sharing a border with Russia, yet Macron had few arguments…

American civic life has been held hostage for too long by the fallacy of equating racial disparities with racism, or the now fashionable systemic racism. But racial disparities, even highly negative ones, don’t mean racism.  According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in…

One is a bunch of hardened sociopaths and the other are the Taliban. While humanitarian aid workers keep claiming that everyone is dying in Afghanistan, it sounds like the Taliban have a lot of spare time on their hands. Taliban on Thursday enforced a ban on TikTok and PUBG in Afghanistan saying that the apps were leading Afghanistan’s youths to go astray.…