A college workshop on white privilege and racism was a significant flop – attracting simply 9 college students out of the 30,000 enrolled within the faculty. Final yr, the course sparked outrage over the notion that it was ‘whites-only’. ...

Having written a whole bunch of articles demonizing the amphibian meme as inherently sinister, information retailers have needed to carry out a fast 180 now that he has been adopted because the mascot of the Hong Kong protest motion. ...

Scores of migrants have been detained this week in Arizona as they poured over the Mexico-US border, based on US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which launched footage of an 81-person caravan earlier than it was stopped. ...

An explosive essay calling out the dearth of reputable experience about Iran must be a wake-up name for the US international coverage area. But the identical downside additionally impacts Washington’s evaluation of Russia, China and plenty of different locations. ...

The promotional video of US jets carpet-bombing an “ISIS infested” island in Iraq comes amid tensions between Washington and Baghdad, and should have extra to do with that than with the supposedly long-defeated terror group. ...

Outgoing Home of Commons Speaker John Bercow shouldn't be leaving Parliament with out yelling "order!" only a few extra instances. A number of of these directives got here on Monday because the speaker tried to preside over the most recent Brexit tête-à-tête between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour Occasion ...

A College of California-Los Angeles professor is asking not just for gun management but in addition “” to freedom of speech with the intention to fight mass shootings fueled by racism, a phenomenon he says has solely come to gentle since President Donald Trump’s election. UCLA professor Douglas Kellner states ...

Having US and former Axis leaders attend the 80th anniversary of WWII, however not inviting Russia, exhibits the occasion in Poland has nothing to do with paying respects to historical past, and every part to do with present-day politics. ...

Whether or not out of worry of failure or full lack of authentic concepts, massive film and TV studios have turned to reboots, remakes and sequels to decades-old hits, something to maintain the flowing. Bother is, they’re all horrible. ...

Researchers have developed a particularly quick optical methodology for sculpting advanced shapes in stem-cell-laden hydrogels after which vascularizing the ensuing tissue. Their groundbreaking approach stands to alter the sector of tissue engineering.