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I have this feeling that the 2020 presidential election in the United States will be unlike any in my lifetime — and not only because…
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View More Colette Browne: 'A collection of vague principles on immigration has been weaponised by far-right politicians to stoke hatred'Opinion | Chatbots Are a Danger to Democracy
As we survey the fallout from the midterm elections, it would be easy to miss the longer-term threats to democracy that are waiting around the…
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View More New Zealand's Trade Me Group gets $1.8 billion buyout offer from U.S. private equity firmOpinion | A Loss for Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation
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To the Editor: Bret Stephens has done it again (column, Dec. 1)! One would never stereotype various ethnic Americans. Why does Mr. Stephens continue to…
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Not long after claiming victory in the midterm elections in which his party lost at least 39 House seats, President Trump kept up his winning…
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With almost 47,000 CAO acceptances this year, most of them from the Leaving Cert class of 2018, school-leaver college entry rates are pretty much at…
View More Katherine Donnelly: 'With colleges at saturation point, apprenticeships attractive again'KKR to invest up to S$500 million in Singapore's V3 Group
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A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller’s aspiration for a child emerging from an education ought to be high bar…
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Californian Daniel Fahie is going surfing, but it’s not what you think. Clad in snug winter wetsuits, Fahie and his 15-year-old daughter Miranda carry two…
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