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Disney Channel star and pop singer Sabrina Carpenter glams down for the occasionally poignant, if derivative indie 'The Short History of the Long Road.' By Keith Uhlich Writer-director Ani ...

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If you were asked to name the top three events in the history of computer technology (or the history of what came to be known as the IT industry), which ones would you choose? Here’s my very short ...

African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

Prompted by the ease with which Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Kastner and Wohlforth ask whether the Russian intervention really was an unprecedented and uniquely audacious ...

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The United States Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s, which is when the internet first emerged. Thanks to ARPANET, research ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...