Who cares about Trump culture wars, the real question is: where do you stand on Michael Jackson?
Oprah says she hasn’t received this much vitriol since she starred in the Ellen episode where Ellen DeGeneres’s character came out https://t.co/RqcmWY1A0A
Scientists in southern China report that they’ve injected macaque monkeys with extra copies of a human gene suspected of playing a role in shaping human intelligence. And that it made the monkeys smarter. https://t.co/muv7UVqMyW
India begins voting today in the biggest election in history: 900 million eligible voters, 11 million poll workers, 2.3 million electronic voting machines, 2,000 political parties, and even elephants to transport voting equipment. https://t.co/y3Mfn67YC9
A detailed look at the voters with the numbers to decide the 2020 Democratic nominee.
This is good from NYT. “The outspoken group of Democratic-leaning voters on social media is outnumbered, roughly 2 to 1, by the more moderate, more diverse and less educated group of Democrats who typically don’t post political content online” https://t.co/q2Hn2bce1V
[....] We asked a handful of economists and think tanks with a range of perspectives to estimate total American health care expenditures in 2019 under such a plan. The chart at the top of this page shows the estimates, both in composition and in total cost.
Widespread closures have roiled the retail industry, but many more stores are likely to shut down in coming years to keep up with a shift to online shopping, according to a report by investment firm UBS.
One by one, the leaders of seven of the country’s largest banks told skeptical House Democrats on Wednesday that a decade after the global financial crisis, the industry is financially healthier and less risky [.....]
• Exit polls show a dead heat in the race between Benjamin Netanyahu, the polarizing, right-wing prime minister, and his main rival, Benny Gantz, a newcomer to electoral politics who is seen as a centrist. Both men claimed victory.
[....] “It is striking,” said Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Rural towns are doing better in the West. Smaller towns are doing better in the West.”[....]
A small-business owner on an island in the Philippines has become a local hero for pushing back at the growing number of international travelers who introduce themselves as “influencers” as a way to get free food, drinks and lodging.
