This story was initially printed in 2023 when Woman of the Hour premiered on the Toronto International Film Festival. We are republishing it because the film hits Netflix on Oct. 18, 2024. There are two motion pictures at play in Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, that intersect in disconcerting trend. In one […] More
Artificial General Intelligence—machines that may be taught and carry out any cognitive process {that a} human can—has lengthy been relegated to the realm of science fiction. But current developments present that AGI is not a distant hypothesis; it’s an impending actuality that calls for our quick consideration. On Sept. 17, throughout a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee […] More
In September, NASA declared the summer season of 2024 the most popular in recorded historical past. Before that information could possibly be totally digested, the U.S. was hit with Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, unprecedented in their very own rights by way of depth and destruction. Despite the seemingly neverending accumulation of dire local weather […] More
This yr Indigenous People’s Day marks 100 years since Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. Americans are often shocked after they study that those that preceded Europeans on this continent didn’t acquire citizenship for greater than a half century after the Fourteenth Amendment gave that standing to “all individuals […] More
On the morning of Oct. 24, 2023, an Israeli missile struck my father’s home in Rafah City within the southernmost a part of Gaza, then designated a “protected zone” by the Israeli army. The missile exploded solely 5 ft. from the place I sat with my kids. The assault killed my 13-year previous son Abdullah […] More
This November, the U.S. residents of Puerto Rico will go to the polls, similar to their fellow U.S. residents. But in contrast to their fellow residents, they will be unable to vote for Senators or Representatives or the President. A U.S. territory since 1898, Puerto Rico has its personal structure and authorities, but it surely […] More
Should we nonetheless concentrate on confused potential voters? These supposedly elusive “undecided” voters who declare to not even “lean” towards both candidate. They are an invented group constructed by pollster-solicited panels of random uninformed residents who’re then presumed sensible oracles. Looking again on the final 5 presidential races, 4 of the 5 elections pegged “undecideds” […] More
As Israel wages a marketing campaign of airstrikes in Lebanon that is likely one of the fiercest in twenty first century warfare, it’s not clear what, if something, can cease it. Successive blows to Hezbollah, the largest thorn in its aspect regionally, have discombobulated the militant group; it continues to combat, however appears unable to […] More
Inside an unfurnished residence within the Hazmieh suburb of Beirut, 10 members of the Hassan household are sleeping on naked mattresses on the cream-tiled flooring. The bins pushed to a nook of the lounge, beside a cage for his or her yellow-faced blue budgerigar Paco, underscores how briskly they needed to flee their houses within […] More
What are Vice Presidential debates for? In the frenzy of deciding what to assume after a debate that primary query usually will get misplaced. Debates generate a definite information cycle as mainstream media plan for, cowl, and eventually talk about and fact-check the occasion. Researchers are divided in tips on how to interpret these cycles. […] More
In 2017, I traveled with my two teenage youngsters to Plains, Ga., from Jacksonville, Fla., to listen to Jimmy Carter train Sunday college at Maranatha Baptist Church. My son Gibson requested for this journey to have fun his seventeenth birthday. A fierce and strange admirer of the Carter presidency, he’d not too long ago written […] More
Ismail Haniyeh, political chief of Hamas, was assassinated in July in Tehran. The location of the assassination was notable, as a result of Haniyeh had spent most of his time in Doha, Qatar, since 2017. Most observers concur that Israel was behind the assassination, although it has neither confirmed nor denied doing so, and it’s […] More
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