Nearly 90 percent of respondents to a study on two college campuses said they’d pretended to be more progressive than they really were to increase their odds of social or academic success. Researchers Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman published an opinion piece for The Hill headlined, “Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed” […]
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Russia’s Easter truce was a stunt to appease Trump, French minister says
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s so-called Easter truce was a “charm offensive” aimed at appeasing U.S. President Donald Trump, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told FranceInfo on April 22. The Trump administration has grown increasingly impatient with its stalled efforts to broker a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. The U.S. president has even said he would […]