• Francesca Amewudah-Rivers Is Playing Juliet. The Racists Who Think She Shouldn’t Just Don’t Get Shakespeare

    When it was announced that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers would be making her London West-End debut starring as Juliet alongside Hollywood actor Tom Holland as Romeo, it should have been a celebratory moment. Instead, the young actor — who has already starred in productions of Othello, Macbeth as well as a BBC drama — was faced with a heartbreaking, but all too familiar, sequence of events in which she received thousands of racist and misogynistic comments online. The social media harassment got...

  • Google Doesn’t Want You to Read This

    Over the last year, we've alerted our readers to specific RedState articles that Google has demonetized, meaning that no ads can be shown on those articles and RedState doesn't receive any revenue on them, for allegedly violating its guidelines. Google claims the offending articles contain "dangerous or derogatory content" or "unreliable and harmful claims," but what they really contain is content Google and/or the government deem dangerous to groupthink and the accepted narratives – content...

    • Time

    Iran Doesn’t Want War

    Despite its attack on Israel, Iran doesn't want an all out war with Israel and the U.S.

  • Australia doesn’t need a Ministry of Truth

    Two unrelated acts of stabbing violence, first the random murderous rampage of a knife-wielding man in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, followed…What to read next: Australia is in danger of tearing itself apart | Shylock and the Nazis: the truth about Shakespeare’s most infamous character | Richard Dawkins: in defence of scientific truth | The Sydney church terror attack is a wake-up call for Australians

  • Why You Shouldn’t Bother Adding Tea Leaves to Your Garden

    There's an old wives' tale that tea specifically helps your garden, but there is no science to back this up. Tea is just plant matter, which will compost and become nitrogen.

  • Hydrogen could be used for nearly everything. It probably shouldn’t be.

    This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. From toaster ovens that work as air fryers to hair dryers that can also curl your hair, single tools that do multiple jobs have an undeniable appeal.  In the climate world, hydrogen…

    • Forbes

    Why La Liga Doesn’t Have Goal-Line Technology

    Spain's El Clásico caused controversy on Sunday night as the lack of goal-line technology gave referee César Soto Grado a difficult decision to make on the field.

  • Letter: HTA doesn’t deserve funds after failures

    A recent editorial informs us how serious the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s managerial “lapses” have been and how the organization has been “fumbling” in handling the millions of dollars of taxpayer money it receives from the state Legislature annually (“Give reset HTA chance to succeed,” Star-Advertiser, Our View, April 7). Its failures to achieve marketing goals are mentioned. However, since tourism is “foundational to the economy,” the writers regard the Legislature’s threats to cut off funding...

  • Tax education shouldn’t end with Tax Day

    April means Tax Day, a yearly reminder that most people don’t like our tax code. As a recent Tax Foundation poll found, people don’t understand it either. With a looming tax battle on Capitol Hill, the need for tax policy education has never been higher. We shouldn’t let tax education end with Tax Day. ​ The public […]

  • Why You Shouldn’t Let High Interest Rates Seduce You

    While increased interest rates are improving the returns on high-yield savings accounts, that may not be an effective place to park your money for the long term.

  • You Shouldn’t Have To – Liverpool Legend Has Key Criticism Of Reds

    John Aldridge has stressed the importance of Liverpool leaking cheap goals

  • AT&T (T) vs. T-Mobile (TMUS): Which Stock Wins in Q1 Earnings?

    TMUS appears to be a better pick now compared to T, given the solid EPS growth in recent quarters, greater 5G coverage and robust demand for postpaid services.