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Review: 'You People' tantalizes us with hints of cutting social satire then loses its nerve

Talk about juggling a hot potato. Is a broad-based mainstream comedy really the place to debate the rise in animosity between Blacks and Jews? Why not, as long as the l

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The right incentives for global vaccine access

VCG Editor's note: Michele Goodwin is a professor at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. Gregory Shaffer is a professor

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Look at this tiny new Polaroid camera can you believe it

A lot has changed in the last decade-ish of instant photography, yet all the while the boxy build of instant cameras has stayed more or less intact. Modern instant shooters have slimmed down and put o

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Adam Toledo, 13, among the latest victims of police shootings in U.S.

00:50 Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Friday to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video of a police officer shootin

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Snowflake gave up its dual-class shares. Should you?

Snowflake announced earlier this month that it would give up its dual-class shareholder structure, a corporate governance setup that often gives founders and executives superior voting rights, typical

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How will the new U.S. government shape China-U.S. relations?

The national flags of the U.S. and China. /VCG Editor's note: Sun Chenghao is an assistant research professor at the Institute of American Studies under the China Institutes of Contemporary In

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Section 230 is threatened in new bill tying liability shield repeal to $2,000 checks

Tech got dragged into yet another irrelevant Congressional scuffle this week after President Trump agreed to sign a bipartisan pandemic relief package but continued to press for additional $2,000 chec

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China becomes Germany's top export market in Q2

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China backs companies' legal fight against U.S. bullying

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian addresses a regular news briefing in Beijing, China, August 24, 2020. /VCG China said on Monday it supports relevant companies in taking up le

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China, Russia pledge to further cooperation, reject U.S. unilateralism

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, with both sides voicing support f

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U.S. attempts to obstruct Hong Kong security legislation will never succeed: spokesperson

The national security legislation for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is part of China's internal affairs, while attempts by the United States to obstruct

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan respond to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative scientists’ open letter on Trump

Mark Zuckberg and Priscilla Chan have penned a response to an open letter sent last week by a group of over 140 scientists who are working on projects funded by the Chan Zuckberberg Initiative. The l

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Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter fact-checked Trump’s false voting claims

After Twitter flagged a pair of President Trump’s tweets with a fact-checking label on Tuesday, tensions between the president and his favored social media platform ar

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Boris Johnson backs lockdown breaking advisor

Dominic Cummings has been credited with masterminding the Brexit campaign. /Glyn Kirk/AFP UK prime minister Boris Johnson backed his chief advisor Dominic Cummings, who travelled 400 km (250 m

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U.S.'s meddling in Mekong River countries hybrid war at its worst

A Chinese law enforcement vessel leaves the waters of Muang Mo of the Laos upon completion of its mission, November 21, 2019. /Xinhua Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American po

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What COVID-19 means for international aid

Editor's Note: Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser to the government of India, is a non-resident senior fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics and a visiting lect