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The year was 1998. Titanic was still pulling people into theaters. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were chasing Roger Maris’s home run record. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average had punched through 9,000 for the first time. The Cold War was over. The Internet and cell phones were starting to take
Mark Zuckerberg had his hands full last week trying to calm the storm at his company. In an employee conference call, he had to quell a great deal of panic over the company’s performance. Growth at Facebook/Meta is slowing, the stock price is down, and the company is dealing with
In April 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles tasked a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb with finding out whether the United States could do what the Soviets were rumored to have figured out: control human minds with drugs. His methods were absolutely insane; Gottlieb set up a brothel in San Francisco where
The US presidential election of 1912 almost sounds like the setup to a joke. Two Republicans, a Democrat, and a Socialist walk into a bar… But it’s true: William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt split the Republican vote (with Roosevelt starting his own “Bull Moose” ticket). Woodrow Wilson was on
On April 22, the Telegraph published the results of an investigation showing that London landlords are advertising rental properties based on religious preferences. The listings appear on Facebook pages openly named “Renting room in London for Muslims” and “Muslim rents,” with language like “only for Muslims,” “for 2 Muslim boys
In the spring of 1946, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers were coming home from Europe and the Pacific, maimed, bruised, and shell-shocked. The economy they returned to was upside down. Detroit was making tanks, not automobiles. Factories were making bullets, not baby carriages. Food was rationed. Fuel was scarce.
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