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Politics

Call It ‘Declaration Day’

The article advocates for establishing a "Declaration Day" to commemorate the principles of freedom and democracy, encouraging reflection on their significance in contemporary society.

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Business

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's $56B Plan to Take Over eBay

(0:00) David Friedberg intros GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen! (1:56) Building and selling Chewy for $3.35B, how to compete with Amazon in e-commerce (11:58) Post-Chewy life, activist investing, the road to GameStop CEO, expanding into collectibles (26:39) Why he wants to buy eBay for $56B: Massive potential, poor execution (slow growth, rising expenses, seller relationship failure) (43:58) Ryan's three-part vision for eBay: Cut costs, expand live commerce, create digital in-game collectible marketpl...

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Education

Sharing a love for calculus

The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. Whatever your own perspective on that debate, I hope you’ll be glad to know that MIT is also working on a deeply important but comparatively old-fashioned challenge: American high school students’ startlingly uneven access…

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