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This year, 39,506 applicants vied to be one the 2,056 students in Harvard’s class of 2021. With a 5.2 percent acceptance rate, the competition was certainly fierce. Those who made the cut would’ve needed to rack up a number of academic and extracurricular achievements, and likely even followed the now-ubiquitous advice to clean up their social media presence, lest a college admissions…

Click:provides a Housing construction is ongoing on the eastern slopes of Pisgat Zeev, in East Jerusalem, January 23,2017.Nir Alon Zuma Press/Press Agency. All right reserved. In recent weeks great attention and debate have followed the approval of the United Nations Security Council (UN SC) Resolution 2334, which reaffirmed with clarity the international illegality of the…

When you’re a fourth-grader, you are completely reliant on your parents for money—which makes it difficult when they don’t give you enough to cover the $2.68 hot lunch at school. What happens next varies by state, but outstanding balances on cafeteria accounts frequently result in some kind of public callout. In some cases, kids are…

Following the passage of controversial proposals on the EURODAC database of asylum applicants' and refugees' fingerprints,Greens/EFA MEPs protest the erosion of asylum seekers' basic rights, 2013. wikicommons/Greensafe. Some rights reserved.The practice of making and granting claims of asylum based on persecution is one of the most concrete expressions of human rights. Yet after more than…

Tell us what you really think. Former President Obama offered up what may be the most realistic assessment of his successor, according to a new report, telling friends, “He’s nothing but a bullshitter.” Obama reportedly made the remark after his first phone call with Trump following the November election. People Magazine reports that after years…

In the heart of downtown Atlanta, not far from City Hall, and just blocks from Georgia State’s sprawling campus and the future site of the $1.4 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium—where Atlanta’s United FC pro soccer team and the Atlanta Falcons will play—sits the Five Points MARTA train station. It is the largest and busiest train station…

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, right, and first lady Rosario Murillo, wave to supporters during an event commemorating the 36th anniversary of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. AP Photo/Esteban Felix. All rights reserved. Daniel Ortega, a Commander during the Sandinista revolution that overthrew a 50-year dynastic dictatorship, will hold office for a third consecutive term after…

While I watch the NBA Finals, I usually have my Twitter app open on my phone, possibly a magazine nearby, and I’​m carrying on half a conversation with the people around me. But this kid crushes me at multitasking. While he watches the NBA Finals, he’​s also playing trumpet in his high school’​s band recital. Maybe…

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras & Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos at parliamentary session in May, 2016, ahead of Eurogroup meeting which might unlock bailout funds. Press Association/Yorgos Karahalis. All rights reserved.This article addresses left-wing critics of DiEM25 who claim that DiEM25 is pursuing the wrong objective (to democratise the EU) by means of a faulty strategy…

Thanks to this week’s litany of Trump controversies—from the repercussions over Comey’s firing to Trump’s admission of leaking classified information and his request to end the FBI’s investigation into Michael Flynn—U.S. stocks have taken a bit of a tumble. According to Bloomberg Markets, the U.S. stock market has dipped to its lowest point since March. By…