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The dangerous new technology that will make us question our basic idea of...
US president Donald Trump—fake-news provocateur—now denies that the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape is real. Of course we know that the recording, in which he makes lewd remarks about sexually...
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What DACA has to do with the government shutdown
The looming threat of a US government shutdown has created a rare moment of synchrony for politicians on both sides of the aisle trying to help America’s “dreamers.” Hundreds of thousands of US...
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Today is the last day to sign up for Obamacare in the US. Here’s how
The federal Obamacare enrollment window for 2017 is almost over: The federal government has cut in half the length of time people have to purchase insurance policies on the marketplace; coupled with a...
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All the key Department of Homeland Security positions Trump has left unfilled
The Department of Homeland Security is tasked with keeping the US safe, from securing the country’s borders to protecting against attacks on its electrical grids and thwarting terrorism attacks. One of...
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Trump removes climate change from national security threats after military...
The Trump administration published its National Security Strategy today (Dec. 18), omitting climate change entirely. In contrast, climate change was listed as one of eight national security threats to...
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Immigrant families are helplessly caught in the middle of Trump’s H-1B clampdown
On Dec. 14, the Trump administration announced a regulatory change that would strip spouses of high-skilled foreign workers of the right to work in the United States. The apparent aim is to promote...
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The 18 photos that encapsulate Trump’s first year as president
As the first year of Donald Trump’s unorthodox, tumultuous presidency draws to a close, there are some moments that will be etched into our memories for years to come. Vaulting a television personality...
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Trump may deport thousands of Indian H-1B visa holders as they wait for green...
US president Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering a proposal that could lead to the deportation of thousands of Indians and drastically impact Indian IT business. According to an...
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Britain’s post-Brexit trade plan could reinvigorate an Obama initiative that...
The UK’s Department for International Trade is reportedly exploring the idea of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), to mitigate the impact of losing trade deals once it leaves the EU. This...
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Booking Barack Obama for David Letterman’s new show might be Netflix’s...
In a sentence that would not have made any sense a decade ago, former US president Barack Obama will make his first TV talk show appearance since leaving office on David Letterman’s new monthly Netflix...
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Trump cancels an upcoming trip to London citing actual fake news about Obama
Last year, nearly two million Britons signed a petition requesting that newly elected US president Donald Trump be blocked from making an official state visit to the UK. It looks like it could take far...
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Happy Friday: the true stories edition
Subscribe to the Quartzy newsletter to receive this in your inbox each Friday. Happy Friday! The outstanding 2016 podcast “Making Oprah” has a 20-minute bonus segment about Oprah’s involvement with...
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For centuries the West has found it useful to compare black people to monkeys
In the history of European cultures, the comparison of humans to apes and monkeys was disparaging from its very beginning. When Plato—by quoting Heraclitus—declared apes ugly in relation to humans and...
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Michelle Obama’s portrait is a radical and defiant gesture to critics
This morning, the Obamas unveiled their official portraits. They will be displayed in the National Portrait Gallery alongside those of other American presidents and luminaries like Beyoncé and the four...
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Jeff Sessions is quietly remaking the US immigration system
It’s been a busy week for Jeff Sessions. The US attorney general is deploying his broad powers to remake the US’s immigration system instead of waiting for Congress to pass legislation. Late Tuesday,...
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The Easter Egg Roll is the White House’s most awkward event
The White House held its annual Easter Egg Roll today, opening the US president’s home to children and families from around the country. It did not fail to produce the awkward images of government...
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Trump picked an odd time to send troops to the US-Mexico border
The Trump administration said Wednesday it is deploying the National Guard to the US-Mexico border to help curb illegal immigration. US Homeland Security secretary Kristjen Nielsen said the troops will...
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What will Cuba’s revolution look like without a Castro in charge?
Cuba just got a new president. In a momentous change for the island, for the first time in nearly 60 years, its leader’s last name isn’t Castro. The National Assembly on Thursday confirmed the only...
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Trump said he’d serve burgers at state dinners—but here’s a look at what his...
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump scoffed at the idea of holding White House state dinners, the most elaborate of events staged in the US president’s home. “We shouldn’t have dinners at all…we...
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A US tech company promised its H-1B workers $8,000 a month but paid them $800
A California-based IT company has come under fire for misusing H-1B visas, underlining the small but worrying phenomenon of hiring foreign talent as cheap white collar labour. On May 02, the US...
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A Trump appointee finally made restaurants publish calorie counts—just like...
Many have already been there: You stand in line for an order of fries only to get to the counter, see a sign about nutritional facts noting that said fries contain more than a day’s worth of...
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Let Obama explain to you why getting out of the Iran deal is a bad idea
Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Iran deal today (May 8) runs the risk of dangerous consequences—not just for the nation but for diplomatic relations across the globe, including that...
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The twisted legal logic behind Trump’s decision to separate immigrant...
The Trump administration said this week it’s prosecuting every immigrant caught entering the US illegally, a policy that will likely result in the separation of children from their parents while their...
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Does Donald Trump hate children?
“I love kids. I have kids and grandkids,” Donald Trump said shortly after his inauguration, discussing his struggle dealing with undocumented minors and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)....
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The Obamas landed a huge Netflix deal to make whatever they want
Barack and Michelle Obama are taking their talents to Tinseltown. The former US president and first lady have inked a wide-ranging deal with Netflix to produce original TV shows and movies. The...
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Immigrant kids held on military bases would be housed in these conditions
The Trump administration is reportedly looking into holding undocumented immigrant children in military facilities. That’s because the number of unaccompanied minors illegally in the US, which the...
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Those photos of immigrant children “caged” by the US? They’re from 2014
This post has been updated. Update, June 18: Since this story was published, new photos have been released by the US Customs and Border Protection, revealing current detainment conditions for...
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How Trump’s pardons compare to past presidents’, charted
Donald Trump has developed an appetite for one of the unchecked powers of the US presidency: the pardon. After 17 months in office, he has: Claimed he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself....
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The Trump administration is reversing Obama-era policies on affirmative...
The Trump administration is rolling back Obama’s policies on affirmative action in colleges. In a joint-letter, the Education and Justice Departments announced on Tuesday (July 3) that they will...
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden detective fan fiction hits US stores today
Hope Never Dies, by Andrew Shaffer, comes out today (July 10) from Quirk Books. The 300-page novel is a deeply silly piece of fan fiction by the author of the parodies Fifty Shames of Earl Grey and...
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This startup is letting Indians rate and question their politicians, US style
A six-month-old New Delhi startup is looking to add a new element to the electoral process in the world’s largest democracy: rating politicians. Inspired by the US’s approval rating system, 27-year-old...
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Why can’t the US make any progress in relations with Russia?
Michael McFaul has been optimistic about US-Russia relations before. In the heady days of the fall of the Soviet Union, he was a technocratic activist, advising many in the halls of power on what they...
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Trump’s “zero tolerance” border policy is actually more like “50% tolerance”
Donald Trump’s policy to prosecute all immigrants caught at the border has turned out to be a legal and ethical morass. It’s also been an operational fail. A month after announcing the policy known as...
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Fewer people want US citizenship but the line keeps getting longer
Fewer immigrants are queuing up to become US citizens, but that doesn’t mean the line is getting any shorter. The number of naturalization applications fell by more than 70,000 in the first three...
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When Aretha Franklin offered to post bail for Angela Davis
Aretha Franklin, who died today at the age of 76 in her home in Detroit, was known for her unbelievable musical talent and majestic career, but the Queen of Soul was also a longtime warrior in the...
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The peace movement needs a rebrand
For the past half century, “peace” has often been practiced through ceremony and symbol. Groups form circles to hum for collective consciousness and sing kumbaya-like songs. Friends gather to paint...
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In three months, H-1B spouses may end up jobless—again
Once again, fears are rife about the US locking spouses of H-1B workers back in their golden cages. In a Sept. 21 court filing, the US department of homeland security (DHS) said that a rule to undo the...
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Threats against political opponents are a fascist tactic. Trump has all but...
In the span of a few hours today (Oct. 24), packages containing homemade pipe bombs were delivered to the residences of Barack and Michelle Obama and Hillary and Bill Clinton, as well as to the offices...
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If voters care about GDP growth, Republicans are sitting pretty
The American economy grew a solid 3.5% in the third quarter. Today’s GDP print is the last big piece of economic news before voters go to the polls on Nov. 6, and coming after the second quarter’s 4.2%...
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Michelle Obama’s career advice: It’s ok to change your mind
Michelle Obama is a high-flier. She is best known now for being the US’s first African American first lady, the work she did in that position, and the style with which she did it. But before meeting...
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Watch, read, and listen like Barack Obama with his best-of-2018 lists
As 2018 draws to a close, it’s time for all those end-of-year lists again. Barack Obama, America’s most-admired man for the 11th consecutive year, posted his on Instagram today (Dec. 28). “It gives me...
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Photos: 40 years since the Iranian Revolution
Forty years ago today, (Feb. 11) the Iranian government collapsed, after the Western-backed Shah’s exit from Iran and the return of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shia fundamentalist cleric, from...
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Nike faces a PR disaster after its shoe blew out in a high-profile basketball...
Nike became the focus of one of the biggest US college basketball games of the season last night (Feb. 20), but not for a reason it would like. The match up was between the University of North Carolina...
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Narendra Modi is the second most followed world politician across Twitter,...
Narendra Modi is not just India’s social media king—he’s close to topping the world charts, too. The Indian prime minister has become the second most followed politician on social media platforms...
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Psychologists proved their value to political campaigns with one fundraising...
In the last decade, psychological advisors have gone from an oddity to standard feature of major political campaigns. Back in 2008, when Barack Obama turned to a group of behavioral scientists to help...
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All of Barack Obama’s summer reading lists, combined
Another summer, another list of summer reads from Barack Obama. The 44th US president recommended dozens of books during his two terms, but Obama only started sharing summer reading lists—often...
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The Obamas are officially Oscar contenders
Donald Trump loves to brag that his NBC reality TV show, The Apprentice, was twice nominated for an Emmy award. (It never won, a fact the US president blames on politics.) That’s neat, but his...
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US think-tank says Trump and Obama ignored nearly a million “victims” of H-1B
An anti-immigration non-profit in the US has accused two successive governments of inaction on curtailing the H-1B visa programme, which it says has cost 1.2 million jobs to Americans. Barack Obama and...
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Joe Biden won’t be great for H-1B visas either
This article has been updated to reflect the results of the US presidential election.The woes of H-1B visa aspirants won’t end even with Joe Biden in the White House.Trump, with his aggressive...
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From the fringes to the White House: How Indian Americans made their way into...
On Aug. 15, 1981, the very first India Day parade in US history rolled down Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Just a few simple floats traversed only 20 blocks before everyone dissipated back into the...
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