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In 2023, Jason Arday became the youngest black professor in Cambridge University’s history. His story, as told in a decade of glowing profiles, was the stuff of Hollywood. Arday was autistic and nonverbal until age 11, and could not read or write until 18. He was epileptic, yet ran 30
[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Schiff Sovereign’s CEO, Viktorija, who was born and raised in Lithuania and is now based between Mexico City and Panama.] It’s been about 15 years since I moved away from the tiny village in rural Lithuania where I grew up… and back then
In the year 711, a Berber commander named Tar-iq ibn Ziyad crossed from North Africa with a reported 7,000 men and landed at the base of the mountain that still carries his name: Jabal Tar-iq (Tar-iq’s Mountain). The name eventually became Jabal-tar, or Gibraltar. Tar-iq’s army was the western tip
Government at every level had a productive week: threats were identified, action was taken, and press releases went out. Just kidding. It was another ridiculous week of mind-numbing incompetence and waste. The Senate’s answer to childhood diabetes: ban Tony the Tiger Senator Bernie Sanders— himself quite a wealthy man— has
“Press is going wild with me,” Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote in his diary on March 22, 2020, days after he had helped pressure the country into shutting down in the name of COVID. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee just released 1,141 pages of his near-daily entries from
How much do you think it would cost to send a supertanker, one of the giant ships that move the world’s crude oil, through a narrow stretch of water that is full of mines, where missiles hit two tankers in early July, and where a crew member has already been
The Department of Transportation’s headquarters campus in Washington spans two complexes covering 1.8 million square feet across 11-acre of prime DC real estate. In the private sector, such a trophy office property would fetch north of $1 billion per year in rental income. Yet for the federal government, two-thirds of
By the time John Adams returned home from Europe in August of 1779, he had been away from his family for sixteen long months representing US interests overseas. The Revolutionary War was still raging, and Adams would only remain home with his wife and children for a precious few months
In the summer of 1972, a Soviet official named Nikolai Belousov stepped off a plane in New York City with a shopping list. The Soviet Union had just finished its worst harvest in over a decade and was on the verge of starvation… and Belousov was tasked with the nearly
On November 27th in the year 176 AD, Marcus Aurelius promoted his 15-year old biological son Commodus to be Co-emperor of Rome. Marcus Aurelius never realized it, but he was sealing Rome’s fate… and essentially marking an end to the Empire’s golden age. Commodus was quite popular in his youth—
If you have a budget of $179,000 to spend on real estate in the United States, I hope you like renovated sheds. Or a six-hour drive to the nearest airport. But right now, $179,000 buys a typical three-room apartment in Buenos Aires, the “Paris of South America” (minus the Islamic
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there’s a psychiatry practice called Mind Work that doesn’t take Medicare. It doesn’t take Medicaid or Blue Cross or any other insurance either. Patients pay cash. The practice belongs to Dr. Sarah Jukaku, who used to be co-chief of psychiatry at University of Michigan Health— a
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