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View More NewsMorning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes or less, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Bitcoin passes $80K before selling off after Iranian missile strike Clarity Act odds jump to 65% on new stablecoin yield language Tether Q1 attestation reveals $1B in profit for the quarter Hyperliquid’s HIP-4 prediction markets launch, does $10M volume opening weekend NFT market sees multiple grail sales, an Art Blocks…
From the Kurdish frontline facing the Islamic State, I watched through binoculars as fighters stood in pickup trucks rigged with stripped-down autocannons, bellowing war cries. They were exposed in ways that no conventional military would tolerate. Days earlier, at the nearby village of Kudilah, my research team and I had chronicled a battle in which ISIS fighters held off US-trained Sunni Arab militia and Iraqi army units. The Kurdish Peshmerga eventually intervened and pushed ISIS back. But then they withdrew, leaving the village in ISIS hands. Kurdish commanders were unwilling to lose more men to hold an Arab village that…
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In April 2020, I published an essay in these pages investigating attempts to boost minority (specifically black) enrolment in America’s medical schools. These attempts consisted mostly of subtle bookkeeping gimmickry that under-counted grade point averages and Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores while giving greater weight to “non-cognitive skills.” A month after that essay appeared, in Minneapolis, a white cop knelt on a black man’s neck for nine minutes and sparked one of the greatest moral panics in modern American history.Declining Med School Standards in a Time of PandemicThe language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements…
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