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The dangerous omission in the Jan. 6 report: Intelligence failure

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Sun, 08/01/2023 - 04:51
The Jan. 6 committee’s work investigating the Capitol insurrection has been incredibly impressive. Investigators have uncovered new and damning information about Donald Trump’s culpability in the violence of Jan. 6; they’ve reinvented the congressional hearing format to tell a dramatic story and grip the attention of a distractible public; and they’ve shown just how capable Continue reading »

‘Boys will be boys’: why consumers don’t punish big polluters for greenwashing lies

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Sun, 08/01/2023 - 04:53
Stigma is an awful burden for business. But what if – for some companies – stigma is an asset? That’s what I and an international team of researchers set out to investigate in a new paper published in the Journal of Management Studies. We examined how consumers around the world responded to firms in stigmatised industries Continue reading »

Don Bradman, Cricket, and the Counter-Revolution

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Sun, 08/01/2023 - 04:54
It would not be an exaggeration to call Sir Donald Bradman, cricket’s most metronomic and gluttonous of batsman (runs wise), a counter revolutionary. On the surface, cricketers like to imagine themselves to be above politics and devotees of a game so complex it would lobotomise any darting political mind. In practice, cricket has invited the Continue reading »
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