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NYTIMES (Keith Bradsher) - China Tightens Rare Earth Grip on U.S. Firms, Threatening Trade Clash

The move targets two U.S. manufacturers at the center of the Trump administration’s effort to rebuild the domestic supply chain for critical magnets.

NYTIMES (Jim Tankersley) - First Round of U.S.-Iran Talks Ends With High Hopes and Big Challenges

Mediators reported progress toward reaching a final deal within 60 days. They also said that negotiators had dwelled on issues that were supposed to be settled.

REDSTATE (Steve Williams) - Your Kid May Graduate Into an Economy That No Longer Needs Entry-Level Workers

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Sumantra Maitra) - Lamenting Lutyens

Indian postcolonialism and Western populism sometimes converge. The post Lamenting Lutyens appeared first on The American Conservative .

Of all the British imperials to coerce India into modernity, four men—a Welshman, two Englishmen, and a Scot—stand out as the most influential. Contrary to the fantasies of most fevered online onanists, none of them were either military conquerors or plunderers. One was a judge, two were historians, and the last was an architect.  Sir William Jones, a Welsh scholar and judge, founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta and modern qualitative and historical research in India. An early historian of Indo-European languages, his efforts led to the foundation of the Journal of the Asiatic Society (his name is still prominently displayed on the cover of the journal ), along with its editor, James Prinsep. Jones and Prinsep were foundational in…Open

NYTIMES (Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart, Michael H. Keller and Alexis Soloski) - The Key Players in the U.S.-Iran Talks, and the Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

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