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In 1966, Chinese leader Mao Zedong engineered a decisive return to power after seven years of quiet retreat following the first period of his near-absolute rule, which ended with one of the worst famines in history. First, Mao incited a kind of culture war: He manipulated what had begun as an obscure debate about a […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has famously promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine on his first day in office, but he has been characteristically vague on how he will do it. Stopping the war is, of course, anything but straightforward. Even if he manages to reach a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is […]
Until recently, the Biden administration has publicly insisted that it is conducting vigorous diplomacy to end Israel’s war in Gaza. That war has made Gaza unlivable and likely resulted in well over 100,000 deaths. Health care and aid workers have been killed in staggering numbers, and Gaza has been designated the most dangerous place on Earth to be a child. […]
On Feb. 3, 2022, just three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, the Russian navy conducted mysterious exercises in a surprising location: off the Irish coast. Coincidentally, of course, the exercises took place directly above a point dense with trans-Atlantic data cables, three quarters of which pass near Ireland. These were not routine exercises, and Russia […]
I have defined my sp through a python file in my application as below @sproc(return_type=StringType(), input_types=[StringType(), StringType(), StringType()], name=”CLEAN_TABLES”, is_permanent=True, stage_location=”@my_stage”, packages=[“snowflake-snowpark-python==1.23.0″], replace=True) def handle(session: Session, input_table_name, perm_table_name, output_table_name): ….. Running above py file is creating sp as below in snowflake account with argument names as ARG1, ARG2 etc CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE MY_SF_DB.my_stage.CLEAN_TABLES(“ARG1” VARCHAR(11111111), […]
The breadth of falsehoods circulating in the months and days prior to Election Day in the United States was breathtaking in both scale and creativity. It was, as the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly said, an “unprecedented amount of disinformation.” Voters were treated to videos masquerading as FBI-generated or CBS […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright as energy secretary has been both widely celebrated and condemned because of the latter’s views on oil, gas, and climate change. The Wall Street Journal summed up the appointment with the headline: “Trump’s Choice for Energy Secretary Is a Fracking Booster and Climate Skeptic.” […]
There are few circumstances under which inflation can be comforting. But in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, one of them appears to be when it serves as an alibi for an electorate’s sharp turn toward meanness, selfishness, and a hard-edged type of identity-centered nationalism. […]
Is U.S. President-elect Donald Trump the accomplished dealmaker he boasts to be, with the Russia-Ukraine war about to come to a peaceful end? We should take him on his word when he says he’s not keen on starting any new wars—but that’s not at all the same as crafting a settlement in an ongoing conflict. […]
With Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency, the United States and the West face renewed opportunities and challenges in their approach to Afghanistan. His former envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, saw the election as an opening to fully implement the Doha Agreement, moving toward normalized relations, while the Taliban themselves have urged Trump for […]