Politics Today 10:45 am The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Racist Con Game The Limits of Vivek Ramaswamy’s Racist Con Game While the emerging GOP star benefits from the right’s version of affirmative action, his ugly response to the Jacksonville shootings shows the cost—and constraints—of his strategy. Jeet Heer August 28, 2023 Vivek Ramaswamy, 2024 Republican…
20 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Ron DeSantis is booed at a vigil after a racially-motivated shooting in Jacksonville By Gareth Evans BBC News Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been loudly booed at a vigil for victims of a racially motivated shooting. The Republican candidate for president was heckled in Jacksonville, where hundreds gathered on…
17 minutes ago About sharing Watch: Two ships collide as storms hit Mallorca By Charlotte Andrews BBC News Some passengers on board a cruise ship that crashed in a storm in Mallorca have been told they have to fly home. The P&O Cruises vessel Britannia broke free from moorings and collided with a freight vessel…
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Environment / August 28, 2023 Wildfires Are a Dire Threat to Incarcerated People Like Me If we get caught in the path of raging flames, what will be the plan for those of us locked behind bars? Christopher Blackwell Ad Policy Flames move through vegetation as fire crews battle a new fire that started near…
Politics / August 28, 2023 The Conservatives Who Read the Constitution— and Found It Disqualifies Trump Asa Hutchinson is the only Republican presidential candidate with the courage to discuss the 14th Amendment. John Nichols Ad Policy Asa Hutchinson at the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee on August 23, 2023. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) Former…
Books & the Arts / August 28, 2023 Nora Ephron’s Divorce Plot Her only novel, Heartburn, looked beyond the love story to uncover the limits of bourgeoisie life and marriage itself. Dilara O’Neil Ad Policy Nora Ephron, Carl Bernstein, and a guest during a 1977 benefit for Amnesty International at Tavern on the Green in…
Society Today 5:00 am Will the Opioid Crisis Deliver Its Worst Harms to Black and Brown People? Will the Opioid Crisis Deliver Its Worst Harms to Black and Brown People? It started as a crisis among white people. But now that overdoses are surging in Black and Brown communities, government is failing to invest in…
Activism Today 5:30 am Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60 Martin Luther King’s Dream at 60 King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the constitution and resistance—often violent—to change. In many ways, we face the same choice today. Eric Foner August 28, 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington…
2 hours ago About sharing A grainy image from Kabul airport as the female students setting off for Dubai queued to go through security By Noor Gul Shafaq BBC Afghan “After the Taliban shut universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship which would help me study abroad,” says 20-year-old Afghan student…