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In 1970, alongside Cookie Monster and Big Bird, a new Muppet appeared on “Sesame Street.” Roosevelt Franklin was a young boy with a shock of black hair atop his head, dressed in a striped turtleneck — and although he was technically purple in color, he was explicitly created to be black. Nearly from his first …
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Cycling, walking, flying and e-scooters are all set to feature among a raft of policy announcements. The government has begun announcing a set of measures to ease the coronavirus lockdown, with a number of changes involving modes of travel among them. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps used Saturday’s Downing Street COVID-19 briefing to unveil plans designed …
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“Closely watched and scrutinized projections by University of Washington researchers nearly doubled the expected number of COVID-19 deaths to about 135,000 by August, based on the easing of social distancing measures,” reports The Wall Street Journal. Not really. That’s just a convenient excuse. The estimate was doubled because it was obviously wrong. At the time of …
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The global luxury goods sector is heading for a stunning collapse of up to 35% this year due to coronavirus lockdowns, according to a new study by the Bain consultancy published Thursday. Bain Partner Claudia D’ Arpizio said it would take two to three years to return to 2019 global sales of around 281 billion …
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It already looks bad enough that the Bears drafted Mitchell Trubisky with the No. 2 pick in 2017, ahead of other quarterbacks like Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson. But if the Bears didn’t even talk to Watson before the draft? That’s how Watson claimed it went down, which would only twist the …
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Former “Good Morning America” correspondent and “Dr. Oz” contributor Mara Schiavocampo says that regular orgasms give her confidence. “I have come to feel that there are certain things that adult humans really need to be their best selves,” she said in an upcoming episode of her new podcast, “The Trend Reporter With Mara,” “And I …
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As Covid Brings New Repression, Democracies Must Push Back. That authoritarian regimes around the world are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to tighten their grip on power is not surprising. Unfortunately, a number of democratic and semi-democratic governments are doing the same thing. Left unchecked, the combined actions could result in terrible damage to democracy and …
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Walter Duranty, the New York Times’s Moscow correspondent from 1922 to 1936, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Russian reporting in the early 1930s. Stalin showered him with amenities — cars, luxury apartments, and mistresses — as well as access. In return, Duranty treated Stalin’s Russia with velvet gloves. In the midst of the 1931-1932 famine that …
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All signs point to Jarrett Stidham succeeding Tom Brady as the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots. The organization has shown their faith in Stidham by not signing a veteran quarterback (at least yet) or drafting a prospect this offseason. The comments from head coach Bill Belichick reaffirmed why they seem to have so …
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For the third time in as many months, far-left CBS News has been caught broadcasting fake coronavirus footage to manufacture a crisis narrative. In March, the fake news outlet was caught using film footage from an overwhelmed hospital in Northern Italy in a report about New York City hospitals. After CBS was busted for this, …
In 1970, alongside Cookie Monster and Big Bird, a new Muppet appeared on “Sesame Street.” Roosevelt Franklin was a young boy with a shock of black hair atop his head, dressed in a striped turtleneck — and although he was technically purple in color, he was explicitly created to be black. Nearly from his first …
