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After a year of production delays and extended hiatuses, TV did return in 2021 with a vengeance—and a vision, and a mission, and even another look at one of our favorite terrible families. Though ...

Economic prospects have diverged further across countries since the April 2021 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. Vaccine access has emerged as the principal fault line along which the global ...

Just at the one-year mark in my current home, and still unpacking boxes – mostly sefarim, books, CDs, and games – I found Sefer Gematriot, which lists all the unique words in Tanach in their gematria ...

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If a new viral clip from “The Daily Show” is any indication, the answer appears to be yes. In the clip, a woman in a flower crown at a MAGA rally in Wisconsin tells “Daily Show” correspondent Jordan ...

2021 was another remarkable and demanding year for the Transparency International movement. As the pandemic continued to disrupt and reshape global affairs, our international secretariat, chapters and ...

The paper reports a mathematical exercise, mainly based on Jewish Gematria, to decode the integer 1737, Jesus’ lifespan calculated in weeks according to the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta. We show that ...

The COVID-19 pandemic set off nearly unprecedented churn in the U.S. labor market. Widespread job losses in the early months of the pandemic gave way to tight labor markets in 2021, driven in part by ...

Music contains so many multitudes that sweeping generalizations about it rarely ring true, but this one still does: There are few things more exciting than an excellent debut album. It’s a thrill to ...

We wrote last week about the record year for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2021. We counted over 1,000 new listings last year, and remarkably over 59% were SPACs. Today we explore ...