Ukraine Crisis: Putin Destroyed 3 Myths of America's Global Order - Bloomberg - 0 views
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Every era has a figure who strips away its pleasant illusions about where the world is headed. This is what makes Vladimir Putin the most important person of the still-young 21st century.
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Putin has done more than any other person to remind us that the world order we have taken for granted is remarkably fragile. In doing so, one hopes, he may have persuaded the chief beneficiaries of that order to get serious about saving it.
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In the early 19th century, a decade of Napoleonic aggression upended a widespread belief that commerce and Enlightenment ideas were ushering in a new age of peace.
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Europe's Energy Risks Go Beyond Natural Gas - The New York Times - 0 views
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To fill the gap, Europe had to go searching for new sources and found it primarily in liquefied natural gas from the United States, where production is expected to hit a record high this year. LNG is about 600 times more compact than its gaseous form and can be moved anywhere in the world through specialized ships and ports.
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In 2017, wind surpassed hydroelectricity as the largest renewable source of power for the European Union.
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A record year for solar and wind power saved the European Union €11 billion in gas costs this year, generating around a quarter of total electricity since the war began
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In Silicon Valley, You Can Be Worth Billions and It's Not Enough - The New York Times - 0 views
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He got a phone call about the imminent sale of a tech company and allegedly traded on the confidential information, according to charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The profit for a few minutes of work: $415,726.
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rarely has anyone traded his reputation for seemingly so little reward. For Mr. Bechtolsheim, $415,726 was equivalent to a quarter rolling behind the couch. He was ranked No. 124 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index last week, with an estimated fortune of $16 billion.
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Last month, Mr. Bechtolsheim, 68, settled the insider trading charges without admitting wrongdoing. He agreed to pay a fine of more than $900,000 and will not serve as an officer or director of a public company for five years.
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Bronx Officer's Recording Suggests Race Is Factor in Stops - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“The problem was, what, male blacks,” Inspector McCormack said. “And I told you at roll call, and I have no problem telling you this, male blacks 14 to 20, 21.” The conversation was played on the fourth day of a class-action lawsuit covering several million stop-and-frisk encounters in the city, a police tactic that the Bloomberg administration has embraced, citing its effectiveness in driving down gun violence. But the tactic has proved divisive in many parts of the city and has become a major issue in the mayoral race.
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Civil rights lawyers have long maintained that the term “right people” is police code for young black and Hispanic men, who make up an overwhelming share of those stopped. But the police, on the other hand, say that they use this phrase to describe habitual lawbreakers, and that by focusing on the “right people,” they are trying to avoid giving tickets to the construction worker drinking a beer on his way home or the couple strolling through a park that is closed for the night.
How much do we hate our 2016 options? Mitt Romney would win in a landslide. - The Washi... - 0 views
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x How much do we hate our 2016 options? Mitt Romney would win in a landslide.
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“What if President Obama were able to run for a third term?” and “What if Mitt Romney had run?” are fun questions to ask but don’t actually tell us how they would be doing if they had run. The most popular politician, after all, is a politician who is neither seen nor heard from. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and the poll numbers rise, as they say.
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The poll asked about a hypothetical matchup between Romney and Hillary Clinton, and Romney led by 10 points, 50-40. As our colleague Dave Weigel would say, “Whoa, if true.”
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The EpiPen, a Case Study in Health System Dysfunction - The New York Times - 0 views
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the story of EpiPens can also explain so much of what’s wrong with our health care system.
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Epinephrine is very, very cheap. Even in the developing world, it costs less than a dollar per milliliter, and there’s less than a third of that in an EpiPen.
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The EpiPen isn’t new; it has been in use since 1977. Research and development costs were recouped long ago. Nine years ago, it was bought by the pharmaceutical company Mylan, which then began to sell the device. When Mylan bought it, EpiPens cost about $57 each.
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Trump Has 1.3 Billion Reasons Not to Pick a Big Fight With China - 0 views
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Xi has little room to make concessions before party congress China leaders already fanning national pride, stressing unity U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked Xi Jinping on everything from trade to Taiwan to pressure his Chinese counterpart to cede ground. In doing so he risks a backlash that could make doing deals even harder.
Congress Is Running Out of Time to Save Puerto Rico - The Atlantic - 0 views
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A Commonwealth in Crisis
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On Sunday, Puerto Rico will likely default again on some of its debts, which now total over $70 billion.
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It is an entity that is often almost completely at the whim of Congress, the most dysfunctional body in national politics today.
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Donald Trump and the Death of the Republican Party - The Atlantic - 0 views
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The Day the Republican Party Died
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Where were you the night Donald Trump killed the Republican Party as we knew it? Trump was right where he belonged: in the gilt-draped skyscraper with his name on it, Trump Tower in Manhattan, basking in the glory of his final, definitive victory.
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To his left, stopped for the night, was the golden escalator he’d ridden down when he announced his campaign last June with a rambling, unscripted address that invoked the “rapists” he said were pouring over the Mexican border, beginning what would be an uninterrupted series of shocks to the political system.
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The Party Still Decides - The New York Times - 0 views
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As Donald Trump attempts to clamber to the Republican nomination over a still-divided opposition, there will be a lot of talk about how all these rules and quirks and complexities are just a way for insiders to steal the nomination away from him, in a kind of establishment coup against his otherwise inevitable victory.
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We can expect to hear this case from Trump’s growing host of thralls and acolytes. (Ben Carson, come on down!) But we will also hear it from the officially neutral press, where there will be much brow-furrowed concern over the perils of party resistance to Trump’s progress, the “bad optics” of denying him the nomination if he arrives at the convention with the most delegates, the backlash sure to come if his uprising is somehow, well, trumped by the party apparatus.
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Americans speak and think in the language of democracy, and so these arguments will find an audience,
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Women Are Already Punished for Trying to End Their Pregnancies | The Nation - 0 views
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There has to be some form of punishment” for a woman who chooses to end a pregnancy, Trump said,
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What about consequences for the man who got her pregnant? That’s different, said Trump
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There are a few other conservatives who share this view
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Google's new media apocalypse: How the search giant wants to accelerate the end of the ... - 1 views
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Google is announcing that it wants to cut out the middleman—that is to say, other websites—and serve you content within its own lovely little walled garden. That sound you just heard was a bunch of media publishers rushing to book an extra appointment with their shrink.
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Back when search, and not social media, ruled the internet, Google was the sun around which the news industry orbited. Getting to the top of Google’s results was the key that unlocked buckets of page views. Outlet after outlet spent countless hours trying to figure out how to game Google’s prized, secretive algorithm. Whole swaths of the industry were killed instantly if Google tweaked the algorithm.
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Facebook is now the sun. Facebook is the company keeping everyone up at night. Facebook is the place shaping how stories get chosen, how they get written, how they are packaged and how they show up on its site. And Facebook does all of this with just as much secrecy and just as little accountability as Google did.
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The Poor Lives of Rich People - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire - 1 views
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Bloomberg's Max Abelson recently interviewed a bunch of Wall Street folks who got smaller bonuses this year, and as their comments indicate, more money either really does mean more problems, or it means that a wealthy person's sense of reality is just that much further off.
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