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Power, privacy, addiction: Facebook’s challenges as it becomes Meta

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In announcing his company’s name change to Meta, founder Mark Zuckerberg observed that Facebook is one of the most used products in the history of

In the US inflation is the enemy at the gates

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Warning lights are flashing in the US economy – petrol is up 50% in a year, home prices are surging, the labour market is tight,

Rising to a Shakespearean challenge: The achievements of FW de Klerk

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In Shakespeare’s drama about the plot to kill Julius Caesar, the 16th century bard has Brutus warn fellow conspirator Cassius that the time for action

The work-from-home revolution

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Work-From-Home (WFH) ‘is the biggest shift in how we work since the invention of the automobile,’ says Mark Cenedella of Ladders, a New York career

Events in 1971 initiated big shifts in China and America

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Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to China in July 1971, in the words of his biographer Niall Ferguson, “fundamentally altered the global balance of power.” China was

An evolving American language – inclusive, gender neutral, racialised

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In his 1946 essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’, George Orwell lamented the decay in English usage that he believed was corrupting thinking itself. He

In over-stimulated US economy, will inflation be transitory or persistent?

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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jay Powell is staking his reputation on the current spike in inflation being transitory. Powell and his colleagues on the Federal

Arizona: Tech boom in an uneven desert economy

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Phoenix, AZ – Money is pouring into Arizona’s semi-conductor industry.  Intel, America’s biggest computer chip manufacturer, is spending $20 billion to build two new fabrication

The dangerous trend threatening free speech

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Separately this April, at two elite private schools in New York City, a teacher and a parent are paying a price for speaking out against

Transformation: US Style

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SAVANNAH, GA:  Until Union victory in the Civil War, the southern ports of Savannah in Georgia and Charleston in South Carolina were infamously linked to