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Despite the deluge of polling that indicates that former President Donald Trump will surely win the 2024 general presidential election, Democrats still have a secret weapon should they choose to break the glass in case of the emergency of President Joe Biden's abysmal approval ratings. The alternative to the octogenarian president, who is losing by 5 points to the Republican front-runner according to national polling by the New York Times, is not Vice President Kamala Harris, who only fares 2 points better against Trump. The surefire way to top Trump by 8 points is to run "an unnamed, generic Democrat." ....
Martin Scorsese is widely recognized for crafting films centered on gritty criminal underworlds and the lavish lifestyles of their gangster overlords, from Mean Streets (1973) to The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and, most recently, The Irishman (2019). However, Scorsese's latest crime epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, veers away from many of the venerable filmmaker's customary tropes. ....
A new “Inclusive Language Guide” from the American Psychological Association reiterates prior demands that terms including “the poor” and “special needs” are offensive and should be replaced. ....
By the time I became interested in the study of propaganda, it had fallen out of vogue. During the Cold War, it was normal for experts to study propaganda as a field of academic thought. After the Cold War ended, this very gradually faded into the dustbin of academic history. ....