Mark Cuban If the D in DEI is about 'casting the widest net for the best employees', why does it consistently lead to preferring less qualified Blacks over more qualified Asians?

Is it perhaps possible that the idea you have of DEI is not how it plays out in the real world?

The US was conquered, not 'stolen.' Just like almost every piece of worthwhile territory on earth has been, over and over again, throughout human history.

How will Iran's government and foreign policy be affected if Raisi and his foreign minister were in fact killed?

The answer is: Hardly at all. The Supreme Leader makes all the important decisions in Iran. The elected politicians and cabinet ministers just work out the details.

The aesthetic below started in earnest around the mid-60s and was firmly entrenched by the early-70s, and then was gone by the early-80s.

It always seemed strange to me how the period that produced the best popular music and some of the best cinema managed to bungle fashion and

This is the late Edward Said, a well-known Palestinian Christian scholar. He's fairly phenotypically representative.

Genomics and collection of ancient DNA from the Levant (narrowly-defined) has advanced far enough so that we now know that Jews in that region during the time of Jesus looked roughly like Palestinian Christians do today. How many Palestinian Christians look like this?