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The real alternative to a nuclear war is a revolution

The most depressing aspect of the current North Korean crisis is that even if Donald Trump wins, he loses. Despite doubling down on his rhetoric of “fire and fury” and deriding his predecessors for failed negotiations, Trump looks like he wants to eventually strike a deal with the nation’s tyrant, Kim Jong Un. Just look at what Secretary of State ...

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China’s yuan faces tougher road

Looking at the performance of China’s currency this year one would suspect that things are looking up in the local economy. The reality is that the yuan’s 4.5 percent gain against the dollar is as much a reflection of weakness in the US currency as it is about developments in China. At this point, what investors should expect for the ...

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Google is right to focus on bias against women

We’re having the wrong conversation about women in tech. We need to decouple two very different issues that have arisen amid the commotion about diversity at Google: biological differences between genders, and bias against females working in tech and more generally in well-paid, prestigious jobs. Let’s start with the biology. Studies on how babies or very young children interact with ...

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