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The Economist· 2025-07-03 16:20
Kenya has grown steadily and sustained a largely peaceful democracy. But now the picture is looking bleak, as people grow discontented and vent their anger in the streets. The country’s leader must change tack https://t.co/0maJ0yXJkT ...
Conquering the Art of Procrastination (From a Procrastinator) | Pooya Golestan | TEDxUBC
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-03 15:19
Today's talk is going to be about procrastination. We're going to be talking about what procrastination is, why we procrastinate, the neurochemistry behind procrastination, and finally, I'd like to leave you with some practical strategies that you could use in your daily lives to lessen the impacts of procrastination. Now to begin I would like to start with a quote from the second century philosopher Marcus Aurelius.Aurelius says at dawn when you have trouble getting out of bed tell yourself I have to go to ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-03 14:25
William Ruto’s tenure is a how-to guide for sowing cynicism about democracy https://t.co/dGN3vngwaN ...
'Cowardly' Republicans have put fealty to Trump, billionaires over constituents: DNC Chair
MSNBC· 2025-07-03 13:05
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin. Mr. . Chairman, good morning.Uh, your reaction to the news that it looks inevitable at this point that this bill will pass. Well, it's shameful. And and look, here's the deal.These cowardly Republicans who refuse to meet with their constituents, who clearly don't have a spine, has put their feelalty to Donald Trump and his billionaire friends ahead of the constituents that they were elected to serve. As we know, this is the most unpopular bill in ov ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-07-03 11:58
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman called on Andrew Cuomo to step aside from the NYC mayoral race and allow incumbent Eric Adams to take on democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in November https://t.co/5aBClnAhN3 ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-03 06:19
The biggest question facing Bangladesh is how quickly it can restore democracy—and how long that achievement will endure. Banning an opposition party is not a good start https://t.co/qKSzfreum8 ...
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From @WSJopinion: A Democratic primary defeat, even in a heavily Democratic city, doesn’t necessarily mean that the game is over. Buffalo might offer its downstate neighbors a road map, writes @jasonrileywsj. https://t.co/q8mkjStdAa ...
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Testing economic guardrails | FT Podcasts
Financial Times· 2025-07-02 21:06
Should we be putting this on recording? Well, let's start. This is the fifth in our series, the Wolf Krugman Exchange. I'm Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times. And I'm Paul Krugman, professor at the City University of New York and author of an independent Substack newsletter. And today's episode is being recorded on Monday, June 30th, uh, at 9 in the morning in Massachusetts, where I am now, and 2 p.m. in London. Um, tell us where you've been recently, Paul. Yeah. Um, um, occasio ...
Former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew: Mamdani's policies are not good for New York
CNBC Television· 2025-07-02 15:28
Welcome back to Squawk on the Street. Zoran Mdani has now officially clinched the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor. Mamani describes himself as a Democratic socialist and his win has caused some anxiety on Wall Street and within the Democratic party.In the latest episode of my podcast, the Master Investor podcast, I spoke with former Treasury Secretary Jack Louu, who of course served in the Obama administration, and I asked him whether socialism could work for America. the policies that he's ou ...
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The Economist· 2025-07-02 11:01
There is a conceivable future in which Aung San Suu Kyi eventually emerges from jail as a figurehead for a new, democratic government. That is not the most likely outcome https://t.co/hgm12u36QC ...