BEIJING — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s right to compete in the women’s event at the Beijing Olympics will be decided at an urgent hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.The International Testing Agency said Friday it will lead an appeal on behalf of the IOC against a decision by Russia’s anti-doping agency to…Continue Reading
Political scientists Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan join the podcast to discuss their new book “The Other Divide.” They suggest that focusing on only the left/right divide in American politics is reductive. By doing so, we are missing another important divide, one that may actually run counter to the idea that America is hopelessly…Continue Reading
Republicans and Democrats disagree on all manner of things. Surveys suggest they often don’t even like each other, and voting data shows they each commonly live among like-minded Americans. But in this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, political scientists Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan suggest that focusing on the left/right divide in American…Continue Reading
Dear Amy: I am in love with my best friend, “Tina,” but she is in a relationship. Tina has been with her current boyfriend for almost five years, four of which have been long distance, and she’s made many comments that make it seem like she is settling for him. They started dating in high…Continue Reading
General Daily Insight for February 11, 2022 We’re drawn to consider who’s in control today. When thinking Mercury catches up to sit next to intense Pluto at 9:04 am EST, it heralds a time for getting to the bottom of things. Maybe not all the answers are out there, but until we ask questions, we…Continue Reading
Devin Hester’s entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame still has a strong chance of happening. That glory just won’t come this year. In his first year of eligibility for the Hall, the record-breaking Chicago Bears returner was not voted to be enshrined in Canton, Ohio, news that became official Thursday night. His candidacy…Continue Reading
The best advice I’ve ever received came from my mom. “Don’t write anything that you wouldn’t want the whole world to see,” she often said when I was younger. That wisdom served me pretty well throughout the rise of social media, and it often comes in handy in a profession where everything under your byline…Continue Reading
What is Sold Short?Sold Short is about inequality. Sometimes that will be about class, wealth, and corporate misdoings. Did you know that in the US, since the beginning of the ‘80s, the top 1 percent’s wealth grew by 275 percent, while the bottom 20 percent just saw just an 18 percent increase? No wonder most…Continue Reading
Nobody has ever liked Washington, D.C. Even before it was built, Thomas Tredwell, an anti-Federalist New York state senator, called it a “political hive, where all the drones in the society are to be collected to feed on the honey of the land.” Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott Jr. wrote in 1800 that “most of the…Continue Reading
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