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Trump is ‘dumb as a fox,’ master of ‘the wall of sound’ and never above ‘the last resort of scoundrels’: Yale scholar breaks it down in new book
"We know from mythology and science across centuries and cultures that even foxes can get outfoxed on occasion," Yale's Jeff Sonnenfeld told Fortune.
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Colbert’s CBS protest on YouTube viewed over 5 million times as he refuses to be silenced
Trump is ‘dumb as a fox,’ master of ‘the wall of sound’ and never above ‘the last resort of scoundrels’: Yale scholar breaks it down in new book
Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him
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Trump is ‘dumb as a fox,’ master of ‘the wall of sound’ and never above ‘the last resort of scoundrels’: Yale scholar breaks it down in new book
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Success
Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him
YouTuber Logan Paul cashes in $16.5 million for his rare Pokémon card—more than even he expected. And it proves his point about ‘armchair quarterbacks’ yelling from the sidelines
Airbnb CEO says AI is ‘the best thing that ever happened to’ his company—he warns other founders: ‘If you don’t disrupt yourself, someone else will’