The Myth of the ‘Trump Miracle’

It has been a tumultuous year for Donald Trump, brimming with legal scandals and high-profile White House departures. But the president should give thanks this holiday season, because he is the recipient of an extraordinary present—an economy gift-wrapped and tied with a big, beautiful bow. After a terrible recession and a slow recuperation, America’s economy […]

Raji: An Ancient Epic Is An Action/Adventure Game Infused With Hindu & Balinese Myth

Raji: An Ancient Epic features architecture inspired by the medieval period in India, monsters drawn from the demonic statues and sculptures of Bali, and combat powers granted by gods of the Hindu religion, giving players a tour through Indian and Indonesian art and belief in the form of an action/adventure game. Raji: An Ancient Epic […]

Russian sites call HIV a myth, Western conspiracy—an epidemic is now exploding

Enlarge / KAZAN, RUSSIA – NOVEMBER 8, 2016: A technician testing blood samples at a laboratory at the Republic of Tatarstan Centre for Prevention and Control of AIDS and Infectious Diseases. (credit: Getty | Yegor Aleyev) An explosive epidemic of HIV/AIDs has gripped Russia in recent years, partly with the strength of anti-Western conspiracy theories […]

A Tale Of Two Kingdoms – A Sierra-Inspired Adventure In A World Of Faeries & Celtic Myth

Goblins are stirring up trouble. Warring kingdoms are putting aside their differences to deal with the threat (but how long can we trust everyone to be pals?). Giants, faeries, assassins, and more are complicating things even further. A sorceror stands on the sidelines, meaning to benefit from the chaos. Hopefully, A Tale of Two Kingdoms‘s […]

NATO guarantees – just a myth? German memo claims US free to decide whether or not to aid its allies

Under the NATO Treaty, the US has a right to independently decide whether it is obliged to help its allies, a confidential German memo says. A historian, who obtained the document, says it effectively makes the whole agreement just a declaration of intent. “In case of a military attack on any NATO country and Germany […]

MMR vaccine side effects do NOT include autism – where the myth came from explained

Scientists recommend giving children the MMR vaccine, after the myth linking the vaccine to autism was quashed. There have been numerous scientific studies that found no link between the vaccine and the developmental disability. Almost 1.3 million children were studied in 2014, to see if the vaccination led to autism. They found the vaccine didn’t […]

America’s alliance with Turkey was built on a myth

Pool Photo via AP This week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pushed the U.S.-Turkey relationship from bad to worse. On Tuesday, he claimed that “spies” had infiltrated U.S. missions in Turkey and said that Turkey didn’t consider the U.S. ambassador to Ankara, John Bass, to be a legitimate representative of the United States. Turkey’s president […]

The lithium bubble is just a myth

Reuters/Ivan Alvarado Forget about oversupply of lithium, and ignore the naysayers. There’s no bubble here. Everyone’s talking about electric cars, and lithium miners are getting more than a kick out of it. They’re enjoying share price rallies and better growth prospects, all thanks to boisterous demand-growth predictions. Since lithium demand won’t stop growing, voices caution […]

The Myth That ‘Business’ Hated Obama’s Clean Power Plan

The Trump administration has long portrayed the Clean Power Plan, a signature Obama-era initiative to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, as a policy overreach that was bound to cost the economy jobs and constrain economic growth. That’s why, in announcing Monday he would repeal the Clean Power Plan, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said that the reversal was […]