> The share of people who are hungry has been decreasing faster in South… more
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> A modest, mid-level funeral in Ghana costs about $5,000 U.S. dollars; a… more
> We have spent the last decade studying how authoritarian security… more
> But very few of my classmates really belonged to the area’s elite. It wasn’t… more
> Basically the issue here is that for personalist regimes, both power and the… more
> The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Trump’s IEEPA tariffs, holding that… more
> The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping… more
> The key to it all is the observation that Ikebukuro Station is a terminal of… more
> Amid growing calls from lawmakers and human rights groups to shut down the… more
> Google provided Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a wide array of… more
> Thousands of people have been arrested during ICE operations in Minneapolis… more
> LLMs are here to stay in our social spaces - there are already 20+ agents on… more
> Fraud has become quite politicized in the United States the last few years.… more
> The Trump administration’s massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota has… more
> All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in… more
> On a Depression-era dinner table sat a can of milk that wasn’t quite milk. It… more
> Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian… more
> FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into… more
> California house hunters should have an easier time detecting when homes look… more
> MINNEAPOLIS — Businesses planned to close, union members to skip work and… more
> Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, whom the Department of… more
> The letter turned out to be legitimate. Daly-Mack is one of about 2.5 million… more
> Under the agreement, participating states will receive "discounts and… more
> These days, I’m getting far more curbsides, but they are not with colleagues.… more
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> Sixty-eight years of highly defective people
> Parody is protected by “fair use” copyright doctrine when it’s used for the… more
> China on Thursday split off a Belgium-sized island with an economy comparable… more
> We’ve responded to one-off crises since 2017, building tools to send… more
> The Federal Communications Commission has banned the sale of new models of… more
> [L]awyers say that LLMs are a long way from reasoning well enough to replace… more
> The clearest tragedy during the early desegregation process was the… more
> Mr Lee, a left-winger who became president in June, is trying to be more… more
> Populism is popular because it speaks to voters in concrete terms and tells… more
> Just before taking the final step of the US naturalization process, two… more
> Last week, President Trump signed a new law, the Internal Revenue Service… more
> Before 2006, the Takeover Panel had no statutory authority at all, but… more
> More than 200,000 additional children under 5 are expected to die this year,… more
> Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, said… more
This blog post has an overview of what GiveWell has been doing this year in… more
> Sergey Brin gave away more than $1.1 billion worth of Alphabet Inc. stock… more
> Homicides and much of the high-impact crime rate are declining, a reason for… more
> Working closely with Good Ventures — the foundation built by Facebook and… more
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> The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego,… more
> Earlier in the day, the House voted to reopen federal agencies — the first… more
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