There’s something to be said for watching the entire Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Platforms State of the Union for roughly two hours the second it goes live. There’s also something to be said for watching the condensed recap that covers the key points, including rebuilt intelligence frameworks, platform design changes, and major developer tools updates. […]
Jain reflects on Stanford GSB's weekly TALK tradition.
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United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday said Washington and Islamabad were developing a “true friendship” as he lauded Pakistan’s role in the ongoing US-Iran peace negotiations.
With Pakistan acting as the official interlocutor between Washington and Tehran in the ongoing peace negotiations that resulted in the April 8 US-Iran ceasefire, Trump and his top officials have…
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Sundar Pichai is to deliver the keynote address at the 135th commencement. How are students feeling?
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Lately, commencement speakers have had a hard time relating to grads facing a difficult job market. I thought I'd intervene before things go south.
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On this Memorial Day, as we honor those who died in service to America, it’s instructive to reflect on America’s origins and purposes.
The recent movie _A Great Awakening_ recalls the friendship and business partnership of Benjamin Franklin and evangelist George Whitefield. A skeptical deist, Franklin was never fully converted by the preacher who led revival in colonial America. But, at least as…
In his speech to the U.S. Congress, King Charles III wonderfully reviewed the spirit of liberty that shaped Anglo-America, informed by Christianity:
**_The Founding Fathers were bold and imaginative rebels with a cause. Two hundred and fifty years ago, or, as we say in the United Kingdom “just the other day,” they declared independence. By balancing contending forces and drawing strength in…
The Ozarks Chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation will host FFRF Staff Attorney Sam Grover for a public presentation in Bentonville, Arkansas. The event location and date are currently ...
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RSVP here. The Freedom From Religion Foundation Metropolitan Chicago Chapter (FFRFMCC) is pleased to host a special speaking engagement featuring Elizabeth Cavell, deputy legal director of the Freedom From Religion ...
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"The right partner is the string that makes the whole chord ring fuller, and warmer, and truer than anything you could ever play alone."
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is pleased to announce Co-President, Dan Barker, will be a featured speaker at the 4th Latin American Freethought Meeting (“Encuentro Latinoamericano de Librepensamiento”), taking place ...
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is pleased to announce Co-President, Dan Barker, will be a featured speaker at the 4th Latin American Freethought Meeting (“Encuentro Latinoamericano de Librepensamiento”), taking place ...
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A sovereign is required to be subtle, and today's Washington is singularly ill-suited to subtlety or self-awareness. Thus the best moments of King Charles III’s visit were likely lost on their targets, but not on the watching world. Rarely has the King had to deliver a speech in such sensitive circumstances, and it was a superlatively smashing success. Read More
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Pope Leo XIV announced the new heads of several dioceses across the U.S. on Friday, including a former illegal immigrant and staunch defender of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
The line-up includes Father Robert Boxie III, who was selected as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington,…
Faculty members David Palumbo-Liu and Stephen Monismith argue that Flock cameras on campus undermine privacy.
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WASHINGTON — During a speech to Congress this afternoon, intended to emphasize and strengthen the bond between the U.S. and the U.K.... Get the full story
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In a speech in May 1955, Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born governor general (1952-1959), said true toleration was a “forbearance towards something that you do not like, or even that you disapprove of, in the interests of a greater common good.” He praised the parliamentary system as an example where speech was often frank and unpalatable, but tolerated. Read More
The UGS also introduced bills to increase ASSU transfer student representation and reinstate Beyond Sex Ed as an NSO requirement.
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Geese clearly appeal to a crowd who wants music to matter again. That’s good. And not a “psyop,” as Wired claims. (Emma McIntyre / Getty…
The extraordinary defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary has unleashed much mockery of JD Vance, and it’s richly deserved. The vice president’s last-minute rally in Budapest cast the Hungarian election as a referendum on global illiberal movements, which makes Orbán’s epic defeat all the more humiliating for him—and for Donald Trump, who dispatched Vance and has long seen Orbán as a kindred…
Whew. It's been a time: "Open the Fuckin' Strait," "A whole civilization will die," puerile threats, boundless botches and cover-ups, deranged lurches into ballrooms, auto-pens, Davy Crockett, and a media sanewashing it all. And when their slapstick "ceasefire" and "peace talks" imploded, our Supreme Leader was at a UFC cage match watching men batter each other bloody for fun and profit. Then…
US President Donald Trump has criticised Pope Leo as “terrible” in a rare direct attack on the pontiff, who responded that he had “no fear” of the White House administration and would continue to denounce the horrors of war.
The president’s comments came after the pope had spoken out, with growing force, against the US-Israeli war on Iran and the Trump administration’s immigration…
A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen…” speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar so good and effective.
In its Thursday meeting, members of the Faculty Senate expressed concerns about surveillance by over 40 new Flock cameras on campus.
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ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Mehmood Khan Achakzai on Wednesday extended “unconditional support” to the government in its efforts for peace in the Middle East.
Responding to Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar’s speech, in which he requested the opposition to defer its protest planned for Thursday, Achakzai said that in his speech on Tuesday, he had called for former premier…
The post-WWII international order claimed universal principles while producing and protecting political arrangements that…
The class of 2026’s graduation keynote speaker will be Sundar Pichai M.S. ’95, who earned a master’s in materials science and engineering from Stanford.
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The Houthis have entered the Iran War, launching two ballistic missile attacks on Israel. (Mohammed Hamoud / Getty Images)
In his inaugural speech on March 12, Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei,…
Henry David Thoreau saw America failing its own ideals just 40 years after the Revolution that had birthed it. His warnings feel even more…