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Zhang Yiming embodies what the United States wanted China to be. He is the founder and chief executive of a company, ByteDance, that owns a wildly popular social-media platform, TikTok. He is a serial entrepreneur, having built multiple apps and search engines. Zhang’s story is one not of a copycat …

The jokes came out between Barack Obama and his friend George Clooney during a virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden. During a 45-minute event on Tuesday (July 28) held on Zoom and at their own homes, the former president and Hollywood actor spent time pitching why Joe Biden was the best …

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Former presidential candidate and ardent Trump supporter Herman Cain has died after a battle with COVID-19. According to WSB-TV, Cain had been hospitalized for over a month in an Atlanta hospital after attending a Trump rally in which he was photographed without a mask. The …

“When you combine the [classic sports] bubble with volatile times—think Berlin in 1936 or Mexico City in 1968—you sometimes get moments that defy the control of those staging the bubbles,” Dyreson said. “The tighter the NBA, Disney, and ABC/ESPN squeeze in an effort to be all things to all consumers, …

Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the last 36-years serving under the leadership of six U.S. presidents from Ronald Regan to Barack Obama to Donald Trump, all of whom have had differing political agendas. But his role is …

Screenshot: YouTube/Noisey (Other) As a superfan of the hip-hop group The Roots, I will always contend that “Water,” a raw and vulnerable tale of addiction and friendship. is the best song they ever made, and—along with Kendrick Lamar’s “Duckworth”—one of the greatest examples of hip-hop storytelling ever. Malik B., the …

On Monday (July 27), Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she ordered two Christopher Columbus statues “temporarily” after receiving “intelligence that gave us great concern.” According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Lightfoot would not elaborate on the threat or the source that led her to believe Chicago would see a repeat of …

Photo: tuthelens (Shutterstock) I feel like anytime a Republican is faced with a mild inconvenience, their first instinct is to compare it to Nazi Germany. An unhinged president with increasingly authoritarian tendencies is fine, but wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of a deadly virus? Well, that’s where …

“Forty years ago, the government essentially stopped policing industry concentration,” David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect, argues. “All Americans suffer from the wave of corporate consolidation that followed.” JULIAN MONTAGUE One question, answered: A reader refused to take their grandmother to the salon, citing health concerns. Now …

Tamera Mowry recently announced that she’ll be ending her run as co-host of The Real, where she’s held a chair since the show’s start in 2013. Now, her co-host and good friend Loni Love, who’s also been on the talk show since day one, reveals how she feels about Mowry’s …