At the height of the Iraq war, bloggers coined the term “Friedman unit” in reference to the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s habit of claiming ...
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In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter authorized Operation Eagle Claw, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the American hostages held at the US ...
Perhaps the oldest, most pernicious form of human bias is that of men toward women. It often started at the moment of birth. In ancient Athens, at a public ...
It is an era of superpower conflict and competition for natural resources. Newly accessible sea routes are transforming the world’s political geography. The ...
For the sixth year in a row, the staff of Future Perfect convened in December to make predictions about major events in the year to come. Will Congress pass ...
At the end of every year, journalists like to look back and see where our predictions held up or fell flat, what were the year’s biggest events, and just ...