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Was ritual sacrifice a divine command or a divine concession?
https://thomaslhorrocks.com/2019/06/18/who-needs-sacrifice-part-1/
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An Elephant in the Room In my previous post (which I have renamed so that this flows more clearly from it), I observed a growing crisis for progressivism, as people across the political spectrum ar…
https://alastairadversaria.com/2016/11/17/a-crisis-of-discourse-part-2-a-problem-of-gender/
* my previous post
* writing on Heterodox Academy
* infamous Yale video
* preference falsification
* generally indirect
* and occurs beneath the radar
* veiled antagonisms in friendships
* the fact
* Nosedive
* ‘Why Women Aren’t Funny’
* Lady Susan Vernon
* historic phenomenon of duels
* this paper
* own particular strengths to the table
* ground zero
* Jordan Peterson
* culture of victimhood
* coddling
* at much lower rates
* bring us too close together
* latest breaking wave
* introduction of a mirror
* existentially involved in an online spectacle
* writing in Reaction
* Bernie Sanders is correct
* already written at length
* Matt Bruenig
* pessimistic
* the kerfuffle
* Lena Dunham
* narcissistic bourgeois feminism
* associative politics
* probabilistic differences
* perceived to be sexist
* profoundly emotionally invested
* Queen Bey
* new mansplaining hotline
* recent review
I’ve renamed this post so that the post that follows will represent a smoother transition from it, but no content has been changed. My Pre-Election Reflections Over the last week or two, in t…
https://alastairadversaria.com/2016/11/13/cracks-in-the-progressive-left-part-1/
* suggested
* breakdown of trust
* step back from the polarized and polarizing discourse
* ‘How Social Justice Ideology Gave Us Donald Trump’
* ‘Further Thoughts: How Social Justice Ideology Fuels Racism and Sexism’
* ‘In Which A Man Explains Things’
* self-defined in our action and not reactive
* election result shouldn’t change the narrative
* this essential article
* feeble
* ridiculous
* academic bankruptcy
* parody
* characteristically insightful reflection
* maintains
* identity politics are tearing us apart
* Ed West writes
* Intellectual Yet Expert
* Cathy Young writes
* Noah Rothman
* Clive Crook over on Bloomberg
* dismissed with contempt
* John McWhorter writes
* Robby Soave remarks
* Uri Harris
* an article
* less religious
* marginalized as ignorant, bigoted, fanatical or some other dismissive label
* job losses
* bitterly clinging
* one commentator on Twitter
* Douglas Murray in Foreign Affairs
* are also
* being reported on
* the ground
* prestige faith
* cultural status
* this Tweet thread
* Henry Kissinger suggests
* in the Harvard Business Review
* she talks one way in public and another in private?
* ‘smug style’
* an article
* coded
* Frank Bruni writes
* in the Harvard Crimson
* Nick Cohen in the Guardian
* a myth
* liberals condemn “white privilege”
* denounced
* “inappropriate” transgression.
On a hazy afternoon in late May 1986, I wait, as I wait every weekday afternoon in a parking lot in . . . .
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/grace
If you're a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer reader, I hope you already know you don't need my affirmation to live whole and joyful lives...
https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/lgbtq?format=amp&__twitter_impression=true
* a story I’ve outlined in several of my books
* As he writes in his excellent book, Torn
* Alan Chambers, the former president of Exodus International, apologized for the “pain and hurt” caused by Exodus
* hundreds of cultures around the world
* The False Gospel of Gender Binaries
Free from their mother's care, five young lions must fend for, and feed, themselves. Their first challenge: a giant giraffe who refuses to be caught.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/one-hundred-years-ago-einsteins-theory-relativity-baffled-press-public-180973427/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The 1989 Disney movie musical may have saved the Disney corporation, but it also sent important messages about identity to its young audiences
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/little-mermaid-was-way-more-subversive-you-realized-180973464/
* build new parks and resorts
* invest in new media ventures
* or expand its urban planning program
* Walt Disney World opened in central Florida in 1971
* “I Want” trope
* ignored the AIDS epidemic that swept the nation
* a 1995 anthology of essays
* a big leap
* the best animated Disney film in at least 30 years
* at least lauded Disney for delivering
* yielded questions
* a 2005 essay
* wrote leading Disney critical Henry A. Giroux
The new biopic “The King” finds Timothée Chalamet tracing Henry’s evolution from wayward prince to heroic warrior
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-henry-v-englands-warrior-king-180973432/
* assiduous cultivator of lasciviousness
* historian Peter Ackroyd argues
* The King
* Timothée Chalamet
* trailer
* Henriad
* most representations
* Call Me by Your Name
* Laurence Olivier
* Kenneth Branagh
* Tom Hiddleston
* predecessors
* main surviving likeness
* Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415
* just below his eye
* Battle of Shrewsbury
* Battle of Agincourt
* one eyewitness
* dysentery
* bloody flux
* Henry VI
* adult Henry
* Edward, Duke of York
* Richard II
* Edward III
* Henry Bolingbroke
* Prince of Wales
* personally reconciled
* History Extra
* Vita Henrici Quinti
* late 1430s
* five years in Wales
* Washington Post
* John Falstaff
* dour mentor figure
* peace-loving prince
* provocative gift
* Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain
* Edward III
* admittedly questionable claim
* Wars of the Roses
* religious uprising
* conspiracy
* crushed both rebellions
* Harfleur
* siege
* one-third
* Agincourt
* estimates
* 12,000
* 30,000
* should have won
* History Extra
* Foundation: The History of England From Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
* newfound status
* second assault
* Caen
* Rouen
* Charles VI
* Treaty of Troyes
* Charles VII
* recent scholarship
* Encyclopedia Brittanica
* Henry VI
* Wars of the Roses
* Catherine of Valois
* Owen Tudor
* Henry VII
* royal houses
As the American people got fatter, so did marmosets, vervet monkeys and mice. The problem may be bigger than any of us.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-obesity-era
How to get someone to leave a cult, and what it can teach us about changing a mind.
https://forge.medium.com/how-to-change-a-mind-1774681b9369
* Eleanor Gordon-Smith
* Oct 14
* Reza Hasni
* Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds
* Forge
* Psychology
* Mindset
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* Rethink
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Conservatives have called the New York Times’s 1619 Project anti-American. But the paper’s argument for the centrality of slavery to the American story does not challenge the legitimacy of patriotism, only that of white American identity.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/the-1619-project-isnt-unpatriotic-its-just-anti-whiteness.html
* child rapists
* shining city
* New York Times’ “1619 Project
* forced labor camps
* rapacity of modern America’s economic order
* inequities of its health-care system
* excess sugar in its diet
* huddled masses in its prisons,
* congestion on its highways
* tendentious claims
* scholars
* who have no reverence for our nation’s founding slaveholders
* coherent
* The Resurgent’s Eric Erickson
* sounded
* insisted
* introductory essay
* structural roots
* justifiably
* Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities
* become white
* one day assimilate into whiteness
* copious evidence of contemporary anti-black discrimination
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Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better.
https://amp-theatlantic-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/594946/?usqp=mq331AQEKAFwAQ%3D%3D&_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fscience%2Farchive%2
* Read: The 50 greatest breakthroughs since the wheel
* Read: Is ‘progress’ good for humanity?
* a factor of two or three
* concluded
* Read: Small teams of scientists have fresher ideas
* applied history
* Patrick Collison
* Twitter
* Tyler Cowen
* The Great Stagnation.
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It took my mother’s short-term amnesia to make me realize what long-term love is all about.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/style/modern-love-romance-marriage-amnesia.html?fallback=0&recId=1Op9QKaqYfG1seabJqF1q7Yc2Px&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=MA&recAlloc=story&geoCountry=US&blockId=home-featured&imp_id=620594048
Tom O’Neill, the author of a new book about the Manson murders, finds that the accepted narrative of the crimes doesn’t quite add up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/style/charles-manson-book.html?fallback=0&recId=1Op9QKaqYfG1seabJqF1q7Yc2Px&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=MA&recAlloc=story&geoCountry=US&blockId=home-featured&imp_id=545287126
* Sharon Tate
* Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
A faction of the religious right has concluded that if liberal democracy does not guarantee victory, then it must be abandoned.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/ahmari-french-orban/591697/
* begged the justices
* George Will
* Rod Dreher
* women have no control
* same-sex marriage is illegal
* arrested and incarcerated
* barred from raising children
* Viktor Orbán in Hungary
* Vladimir Putin in Russia
* Americans reject what they have to offer
* attacked National Review’s David French
* serve all customers
* break the seal of confession
* acceptance of trans people
* their co-partisans
* to have the upper hand here
* The other side has rights
* Barack Obama
* Hillary Clinton
* break the seal of confession
* Free Exercise Clause
* record in doing so
* since-deleted tweet
* refusing to air
* which he cried
* be defunded because
* resembles Orb
* á
* n’s Hungary
* rigged electoral systems
* national identity
* religious and ethnic terms
* conservatives who rail against
* “displace American citizens.”
* by Jane Coaston at Vox
* see the wealthy and upper-middle classes
* political power relative to their bosses
* fathers going off to work
* their trans sons to shave for the first time
* demonetize (but not remove) the channel
* Masterpiece Cakeshop
* suddenly a legitimate tactic
* enough to sway elections
* exemplar of the libertinism
* slashing taxes on the wealthy
* destroying thousands of them on purpose
* American Orb
* á
* nists
* Trump would not be president
* diminish the political power of minorities and enhance
* valorizes political violence
* followers take note
* attacking private citizens who demand
* Ross Douthat writes
* solve problems
* risked life and limb to preserve it
* Operation Wetback
* Proposition 187
* face of an epidemic
* giving the state permission to destroy them
* have been fighting for their fundamental rights
* the social contract implicitly excluded
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The question of sex in the sanctuary is not always one of victimization for women. What is certain is that it is complicated.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret-sex-lives-of-nuns
* Italy
* Pope Francis
* clerical sexual abuse
* nuns
* though not always in practice
* gay priest lobby
* Benedetta, to be released in 2020
* recently
“I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html
* they don’t want their own children anywhere near them
Olivia Nuzzi unexpectedly found herself in the Oval Office with Donald Trump, Mike Pence, John Kelly, Mike Pompeo and other senior officials. They wanted to convince her Kelly’s job is safe. They didn’t — but, wow…
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/my-private-oval-office-press-conference-with-donald-trump.html
* Rasmussen poll had Trump at 51 percent
Learning to live as if you’ll die one day.
https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/when-self-help-means-less-help/
The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something much worse.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/breaking-faith/517785/
* fleeing organized religion
* Center for American Progress report
* fallen more than twice as much
* more hostile
* An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right
* writes
* told
* sometimes accuse the black Church
* Patrisse Cullors
* wrote in The Washington Post
* respond
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* Peter Beinart
* Twitter
The hierarchies of Judeo-Christian religions mean that those cultures tend to fear their overlords. Beliefs like Shinto and Buddhism are more conducive to have faith in peaceful coexistence.
https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-robot-overlords/
* Honda Foundation
* noted the relationship between Buddhism and robots
* publicly expressing their fears about the potential power of robots to rule humans
* wrote about a meeting
* paper on extending legal rights to robots
* Extended Intelligence
Beth Moore grew her flock by teaching scripture to women—and being deferential to men. Now her outspokenness on sexism could cost her everything.
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/568288/
* in one tweet
* Emma Green
* Twitter
Advances in digital imagery could deepen the fake-news crisis—or help us get out of it, Joshua Rothman writes.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/in-the-age-of-ai-is-seeing-still-believing
* A.I.
* Synthesizing Obama
* Black Panther
* Jurassic World
* Star Wars: The Last Jedi
* Blade Runner 2049
* The Matrix
Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/catholic-exorcisms-on-the-rise/573943/
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Ancient robots and today’s intentionally imperfect quest for artificial intelligence.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/william-a-wilson/robots-ai-and-ancient-mythology-acts-of-creation
* Gods and Robots
* Gods and Robots
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
* 2013 article by Dan Slater in The Atlantic
* his research finds
* markets with a relatively low number of participants
* a co-founder of OkCupid
* an article she’d written for Washington Post
* found
* told Bloomberg
* told The New York Times, adding that Millennials require privacy
* A Million First Dates
* Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
* The Sexually Conservative Millennial
* Dear Therapist: My Husband Doesn’t Want to Have Sex Anymore
* nobody ever died of sexlessness
Religious communities often face a choice: Sell off the buildings they can no longer afford, or find a way to fill them with new uses.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/what-should-america-do-its-empty-church-buildings/576592/
* $4,812 per month
* 6,000 to 10,000 churches die each year
* declining
* falling
* growing
* Read: Atheists are sometimes more religious than Christians
* Read: Breaking faith
* told The Boston Globe
* indoor playground
* laser-tag arena
* or a skate park
* converted
* Missional Wisdom Foundation
* Read: How a megachurch melts down
* White Rock United Methodist Church
* Haw Creek Commons
* Submit a letter
* Jonathan Merritt
* Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing – And How We Can Revive Them
* Twitter
I used to think the art world was at war with money, and vice versa. I’m starting to think we’re in a new equilibrium, defined by ambivalence.
http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/how-does-the-art-world-live-with-itself.html
Technology has given rise to an age of misinformation. But philosophy, and a closer look at our own social behavior, could help eliminate it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/facebook-fake-news-philosophy.html
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* reported
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* Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments
* The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
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France finally recognizes its crimes. What does that mean for me, an Algerian in Algeria, today?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/audin-france-algeria-war-crimes-torture.html
When fascism starts to feel normal, we’re all in trouble.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/fascists-leaders-america-trump.html
Geographic quirks, not presidential ones, could determine many midterm contests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/trump-midterms-elections.html
* Texas Politics Project
* approval rating in the district
* Dave Wasserman
* Swing Left
* the 84 House districts on which the organization is focused
Trump never cared about criminal justice reform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/opinion/trumps-callous-use-of-kanye.html
* explaining
* Alice Marie Johnson
The perception of a common national identity is essential to democracies and to the modern welfare state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/nationalism-trump-globalization-immigration.html
* speech
What I learned answering calls to my university’s student helpline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/cost-college-financial-aid.html
* $50 million
* dining hall
* Tuition was $36
* that debt can remain crippling
Are Trump's conservative critics really conservatives anymore?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/the-different-ends-of-nevertrump.html
* a new book
* Atlantic essay
And why it’s time to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., the 51st and 52nd states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/opinion/dc-puerto-rico-statehood-senate.html
* has suggested
* Supreme Court term limits
* in every decade
* pass a bill
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a companion that constantly wants to protect me, never realizing the threats it sees aren’t legitimate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/ocd-my-exhausting-best-friend.html
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The writer Stephen Elliott is suing Moira Donegan, the creator of the Media Men list.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/stephen-elliott-moira-donegan-media-men.html
* not private
* complaint
* essay
* tweeted
* wrote
Forget the game room and formal dining. You need space for aging parents and Airbnb guests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/real-estate-housing-market-dream-home.html
* average first-time home buyer is 32
* 64 percent of American households owned their home
Tennessee progressives were unhappy with their options in a close Senate race. A 28-year-old pop star explained the stakes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/taylor-swift-phil-bredesen-marsha-blackburn.html
* an Instagram post
To the barricades! And don’t forget the lyric sheet! With midterm elections approaching, a look back at some anthems and ditties that have challenged the status quo.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/loudon-wainwright-protest-songs.html
* “I Had a Dream.”
We’re mistaken for each other, but we’re not mistaken about ourselves.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/harvard-and-the-myth-of-the-interchangeable-asian.html
* personality traits
* it rejects
* The case
In the end, Saudi Arabia played Kushner, Trump and his other American acolytes for suckers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/sunday/saudi-arabia-mbs-jamal-khashoggi.html
* war in Yemen
* million Yemenis
Heralded in film for its past, but underfunded and underappreciated, the agency continues to give us insight and breakthroughs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/nasa-is-cooler-than-ryan-gosling.html
Others were more complicit in covering up priestly abuse, but Cardinal Donald Wuerl still committed serious mistakes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/opinion/pope-francis-donald-wuerl-abuse.html
* accepting the resignation
* detailed grand jury report
* he wrote
A week after the justice’s controversial swearing-in, the African-American activists I study offer a lesson to those who are in despair: Failure is part of the process.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opinion/kavanaugh-activism-civil-rights.html
The heart may not be the origin of our feelings, but it is affected by them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/sunday/heart-health-emotions.html
* a distinctive shape
Chaos in the White House has not diminished the chances of a two-term presidency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/trump-2020-reelection-presidency.html
* numbers in the Senate
His cooperation agreement with Robert Mueller is the start of a new chapter in the special counsel’s investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/paul-manafort-folds-now-what.html
Disclosure rules may seem arcane, but money corrupts medical research.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/medicines-financial-contamination.html
* Juno Therapeutics
* Paige.AI
* sent a letter
* 2015 study in The BMJ
* nearly 70 percent
* advisory committees
The president sees the accepted death toll of nearly 3,000 as evidence of a political conspiracy against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/editorials/trump-puerto-rico-death-toll.html
* deny the nearly 3,000 American lives lost
* 3000 people did not die
* This was done
The official statistics say that the financial crisis is behind us. It's not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/columnists/great-recession-economy-gdp.html
* risen 20 percent
* hard to imagine
The messy truth lies in between two common, incorrect tropes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/hurricane-maria-staying-home.html
* may be too late
* television
How we define a calamity determines how we plan for and respond to them. Or not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/trump-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-disaster.html
* wildfires
* floods
I feel bad for them. Do they feel bad for women?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/columnists/metoo-movement-franken-hockenberry-macdonald.html
* bleakly titled “Exile.”
* accused Hockenberry of sexual harassment
* report by WNYC
* as do I
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New polls show that some of the most hard-core Trumpsters are starting to get a clue. It might be because he finally crossed a line: He’s now insulting them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/opinion/trump-base-polls.html
* first president without a pet
A Kosovo-Serbia land swap would be peaceful ethnic cleansing. But at least it would bring peace.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/kosovo-serbia-land-swap.html
* Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany recently said
* an open letter condemning the proposal
* hinted as much last month
* reportedly home to some 60,000
Depending on how you look at it, it’s one of the richest states or one of the most unequal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/california-economy-inequality-mobility.html
* Forbes in May
* California Is Doing Fine, Thank You Very Much
* St. Louis Federal Reserve
* $4,966 to $58,272
* economic growth
* national growth
* Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
A woman who survived the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 reminds us that history doesn’t stay stuck in time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/olivia-hooker-tulsa-race-riot.html
The southeast coast is no stranger to devastating storms, but that hasn’t slowed people from moving there.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/13/opinion/hurricane-florence-south-north-carolina.html
Why is the administration so reluctant to block Tehran’s most dangerous regional gambit?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/trump-syria-idlib-assad.html
* consonant with their desire to strike a nuclear deal with Iran
* deference to Vladimir Putin
* minimally effective airstrikes.
* latest threat to hit Assad harder
* in a tweet!
* Iran uses to supply its own forces in Syria
Why did the slump last so long? Cynical, bad-faith Republican politics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/lehman-economic-crisis.html
* dismissed it
* refusing to raise the debt limit
* close to zero
* actual content
* credulous pundits
* deficit-exploding
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It’s not about right-wing Americans. It’s about China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/google-censorship-trump-china.html
Justice Department lawyers have said a sitting president cannot be indicted. It’s time to test that proposition by bringing an indictment that can be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/michael-avenatti-trump-indictment-stormy-daniels.html
* Clinton v. Jones
* wrote a memorandum opinion
* a 1973 analysis
* concluded in 1998
* Mr. Starr himself
What will the court look like when neither side of the ideological divide has to walk on eggs to win the favor of the justice in the middle?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/editorials/kavanaugh-supreme-court-divide.html
* District of Columbia v. Heller
* repeated charge
* Masterpiece Cakeshop case
* completely unpersuasive conclusion
* 5-to-4 decision
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An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/texas-slavery-african-american-graveyard.html
* African Burial Ground National Monument
* catalog of injuries
* the remains of about
* 95
* African-Americans
* 13th Amendment
* “slavery by another name”
We are a long way from the Stoicism of Seneca, but grief and how we deal with it is still a vital part of the human experience.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/opinion/grief-death-condolences.html
* Stay With Me
* Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments
* The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
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Prompted by the dry, hot summer, ancient ghosts have emerged from the earth. They’re both unsettling and strangely soothing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/opinion/britain-drought-cropmarks-summer.html
* have burned
* have melted
* can be seen
Devotion to this team has taught me to see the value in crushing defeat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/opinion/revelation-of-a-liverpool-soccer-fan.html
Orthodoxy should be respected, but we cannot allow the politics of a radical minority to alienate millions of Jews worldwide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/israel-ronald-lauder-nation-state-law.html
* Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
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The fate of the world economy depends on how China negotiates a weakening currency and capital flight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/opinion/turkey-economy-lira-china-currency-erdogan.html
* to 23 percent
* President Trump’s tariff wars
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is attempting to transform his country. The West shouldn’t undermine him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/canada-saudi-arabia-tweet-mbs.html
* what happened to the shah of Iran
Charters make it possible to avoid the hard work of integration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/opinion/charter-schools-desegregation-los-angeles.html
* researchers at the Civil Rights Project at U.C.L.A.
* The Associated Press
The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/watergate-republican-party.html
* 32 people and three companies have been indicted
* Kevin McCarthy
* Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
* Devin Nunes of California
A president doesn’t have the right to dispense with laws he dislikes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/opinion/trump-obamacare-illegal.html
* a lawsuit
* Facebook
* Twitter
* Opinion Today newsletter
In 1985, Billy Ray Irick committed a hideous crime in Tennessee. Last week, the state of Tennessee responded in kind.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/opinion/death-penalty-billy-ray-irick.html
* strongly dissented
* poll from the Pew Research Center
* Catechism of the Catholic Church now reads
The persistence of memory and the importance of grief mean you’re always in in many places at once.
https://variety.com/2017/tv/columns/leftovers-hbo-damon-lindelof-justin-theroux-life-death-time-travel-1202449486/
* The Leftovers
* all season (and before)
* The Leftovers
* Sonia Saraiya's Favorite TV Things of 2017
* The Best TV Shows of 2017
* music video
* back tattoos of a fish turning into a dragon
* Travel
* Tasmanian sex boat
* written
* these years
* large tattoos that resulted
* dragon for something else that happened
* Hurt
Reading the Belgic Confession again I’m reminded of how odd it seemed to me the first time that it should not only contain affirmations, but as many denials. I was baffled by the denial of Epicurea…
https://unknowing.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/confessional-observations/
* You can get four volumes of them all in English and with brief introductions
Marco Rubio’s bipartisan paid family leave bill is historic but forces parents to rob from their retirement to care for children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/opinion/paid-family-leave-marco-rubio.html
* forgoing 25 weeks
* 6 percent
* more likely
* far more likely
* about a quarter
* About three-quarters
* the social insecurity of our time
* overwhelming favorite
* more
* people
* not destroyed
* among voters
This is the world in which the New Testament was written.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-chalke-pompeii-ancient-roman-porn_us_596fb1fee4b0110cb3cb542a
* video created for the Oasis Open Church Network
* “clobber passages”
* August 24, 79 A.D.
* evangelicals believe the Apostle Paul wrote the letters
* at the National Archeological Museum of Naples
* locked away and out of sight from general display.
* 1 Timothy
* 1 Corinthians
* senior minister of Oasis Church Waterloo
We need to start talking about what kind of planet we want to live on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/science-people-environment-earth.html
* Erle C. Ellis
The old boundaries of the human self are being blurred by technology. The risks are real, but the potential is astounding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/we-are-merging-with-robots-thats-a-good-thing.html
Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.
http://theweek.com/articles/696830/why-left-losing
* the debate between Macron and Le Pen illustrated well
The G.O.P.’s boogeywoman is the greatest House speaker of modern times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/opinion/nancy-pelosi-midterms-democrats-republicans.html
* barely mention it
* also remains unpopular
* Nancy Pelosi
The justification keeps changing, but the cruelty remains the same.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/republican-war-on-poverty.html
* good reasons for not working
* adults in their prime working years
* overwhelmingly populated
The president’s refusal to condemn Russian attacks is a betrayal of every single American citizen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/trump-and-putin-vs-america.html
Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn wants to ride the president’s coattails to the Senate. But will her plan backfire?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/the-perils-of-the-trump-cult.html
Trump forcefully caps off years of deterioration in European-American ties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/trump-nato-european-union-history.html
* writes
Some readers accuse Mr. Trump of treasonous behavior and lying. But one asks why not try to work with Russia on pressing issues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/trump-putin-helsinki.html
* Trump, at Putin’s Side, Questions U.S. Intelligence on 2016 Election
* Trump, Treasonous Traitor
It could wipe out H.I.V. in America, but its high price keeps it out of reach for too many.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/prep-hiv-aids-drug.html
* rare cancer
“I have been contesting and winning elections for decades. The wolves are very effective.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/pakistan-elections-villages-military.html
The New Orleans turnaround shows the power of giving more freedom to teachers and principals — and then holding them accountable for their performance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/opinion/columnists/new-orleans-charter-schools-education-reform.html
The president lays himself at Vladimir Putin’s feet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/donald-trump-putin-russia.html
* from the same military intelligence service
* last week said
* knock off the hacking
* Facebook
* Twitter (@NYTOpinion)
* Opinion Today newsletter
If the Democrats go down swinging, they’ll have a potent message for the midterms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/opinion/the-right-way-to-lose-the-kavanaugh-fight.html
Some would say the mistake was having our daughter in the first place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/climate-change-parenting.html
* David Buckel made
Just look around Europe: It’s clear that accommodating radical nationalists is a losing proposition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/to-defeat-far-right-nationalists-dont-try-to-imitate-them.html
* obsessively ambitious
The gentleness and normalcy of a puppy who grew to be a giant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/sunday/get-yourself-a-giant-dog.html
Being hooked on devices is as likely a symptom of stress and anxiety as a cause.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/sunday/smartphone-addiction-teenagers-stress.html
* worse economic future than their parents
* development of self-reliance and grit
* anxiety and depression
* go online
* negative emotional consequences
* designed
* us
* our children
* may not solve the broader problems
Criminal organizations are using the Chavista regime to spread illicit activities through out Latin America and beyond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/opinion/venezuela-maduro-the-new-regional-crime-hub.html
* now oversees food and medicine distribution
* Honduras and Guatemala
* The Dominican Republic is the destination
Not only does it get Democrats going, it hurts him with Republican moderates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opinion/trump-base-midterms-moderate-republicans.html
* shellacking
The rise in cesareans, the overuse of antibiotics and the use of infant formula may have wiped out a bacteria that kept babies healthy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/babies-bacteria-breastfeeding-formula.html
* their research
* researchers suspect that
Two charts show what’s happened to the American economy over the past quarter century.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/big-business-mergers.html
* have their virtues
* better regulation
You can learn a lot about being a good person by belonging to a good dog.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opinion/a-dogs-love.html
He brings a combination of intelligence, enthusiasm and empathy that is so desperately needed in Washington.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/gareth-rhodes-19th-district.html
* seven Democrats are competing in the primary
* Jeff Beals
* David Clegg
Long-held misperceptions of African-Americans continue to prove deadly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/roseanne-racism-blacks-apes.html
* resurrected
* “The Birth of a Nation”
* Jennifer Eberhardt
* Phillip Atiba Goff
* six studies
Lessons for the Pax Americana from the Pax Romana
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/what-did-the-romans-ever-do-for-us.html
* monster piece on trade war
* scathing about Niall Ferguson
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Assuming that women are all focused on the same issues or will vote alike ignores recent political history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/no-not-all-women-are-democrats.html
There is still a culture of silence at work in our congregations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/women-the-bible-metoo.html
* a third or more of the women sitting in our pews have been sexually assaulted
* almost half of transgender individuals report being sexually assaulted
What would happen if Trump really goes there?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/thinking-about-a-trade-war-very-wonkish.html
* tariffs of nearly 60 percent
* Nicita et al
So much Trump-era political and cultural analysis completely ignores us.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/black-midwesterners-trump-politics.html
* code for “white.”
* Guardian op-ed
* told Reuters
* authentic” Midwestern
* Approximately seven million people who identify as African-American live in the Midwest
* more black people in the Midwest
* more than 60 black settlements
Family separation is one of the most callous policies Trump has implemented.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opinion/trump-and-the-baby-snatchers.html
* one of the same Bible verses
* The Times reported on Saturday
We need ways to control migration, but the separation of families shows us how not to do it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/family-separation-immigration-trump.html
* a bureaucratic labyrinth
* deliberately chosen
The baby needed us, but he wasn’t ours yet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/38-days-that-made-us-dads.html
I was willing to do almost anything to make my suffering stop.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/books-saved-me-from-suicide.html
A photographer spends time with dads who approach parenthood differently from how their fathers did.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/fathers-day-dad-kids.html
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Why there’s not pot of gold at the end of the corporate tax cut rainbow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/tax-cuts-and-leprechauns-wonkish.html
Seeking asylum from the Emperor of Chaos.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/psychos-on-the-potomac.html
* rooting for a raccoon
* Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited the Bible
* including a baby being breast-fed
* he vitiated the policy
* has said his “glory days” with Trump
A new exhibit at Monticello tells her story through the eyes of Madison Hemings, a son of hers and Thomas Jefferson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/sally-hemings-monticello-thomas-jefferson.html
There are many reasons the newspaper industry is in free fall. Widespread failure to get the product delivered properly is part of the problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/night-falls-on-news-carriers.html
The Trump administration’s border policy deserves strong condemnation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/opinion/sunday/pro-life-immigrant-children-separation.html
* Focus on the Family
* Family Research Council
* while she was breast-feeding
The dying columnist argued with rigor, not rancor; confidence, not certitude.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/charles-krauthammer-democratic-vocation.html
* announced last week
* his qualities as a father, friend and colleague
* courage and resilience as a man
* bad Supreme Court nomination
* joys and humiliations of chess
* future of geopolitics
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The planet is a safer place because of the liberal world order. The president wants to destroy it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/sunday/trump-china-america-first.html
His foundation shockingly — and repeatedly — violated charitable norms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/trump-foundation-new-york-attorney-general.html
* type of case
* tweeted
That doesn’t mean James Comey and the F.B.I. worked to get her elected in 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/comey-fbi-clinton-emails-strzok.html
* report
* clear
The evidence is overwhelming that Trump can’t resist a dictator. Democratic leaders are weak because they can’t execute opponents with antiaircraft guns.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/trump-kim-north-korea-dictator.html
* watched footage
* has the absolute authority
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s longtime editorial cartoonist just lost his job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/cartoonist-rob-rogers-trump-fired.html
* took a buyout
* openly racist editorials.
He and his allies are muddying the waters. It has nothing to do with the Mueller investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/why-trump-is-wrong-on-the-comey-report.html
* recent NBC/Wall Street Journal polling
It’s a scary thing to be the target of online vigilantes who believe in their own righteousness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/sunday/moustached-kingfisher-internet-harassment.html
* the Earth Liberation Front firebombed
* wrote an essay for Audubon
* highlighted the role
* described them as
* a comparison of museum egg specimens
* demonstrated rising levels of mercury
Local newspapers across the heartland are full of tales of how his trade war has cost jobs and income.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/sunday/trump-china-tariffs-trade-farmers.html
* have already cost
* Soybean growers
* buys a quarter
* of American soybeans
* announcement
* statement
* said to expect as much.
* across the heartland
* similar tales of value destruction
* lost income
* according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
* $347.7 million more
Grifters ain’t gonna gift.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/donald-trump-foundation-lawsuit.html
* just another of
* The Washington Post reported
* pro-wrestling mavens
* was repeatedly compared
* has saved perhaps millions of lives
* on Thursday
* alleging that
* said in a statement
A philosophy to celebrate the infinite worth inherent in every human being.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/personalism-philosophy-collectivism-fragmentation.html
* has written
Is the White House press secretary about to quit? If she does, here’s one way she’ll be remembered.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/sunday/sarah-huckabee-sanders-briefings.html
* Feb. 26, 2018
* March 7, 2018
* April 16, 2018
* March 5, 2018
* March 28, 2018
* Dec. 19, 2017
* Sept. 28, 2017
* Jan. 4, 2018
* Aug. 24, 2017
* April 23, 2018
* Jan. 4, 2018
* June 14, 2018
* Oct. 18, 2017
Republican cruelty is a pre-existing condition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/pre-existing-conditions-health-care-republicans.html
* refuse to cover
* Scott declared
* used to be denied coverage
* They do
Inside a former Walmart in Texas, holding more than 1,400 migrant boys.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/casa-padre-immigrant-children-walmart.html
* sign up here
* MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff said yesterday on Twitter
* write Michael E. Miller, Emma Brown and Aaron C. Davis
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The risks are greater than ever, even if the Saudi-Emirati offensive ends fast.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/yemen-al-hudaydah-famine-houthis.html
It’s almost like we have just two seasons now, winter and wildfire.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/wildfire-west-yellowstone.html
* major infernos
* U.S. Forest Fires Worst Since 1919
* 1.4 million acres
* Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Mindfulness makes people less motivated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/sunday/meditation-productivity-work-mindfulness.html
* report in a forthcoming article
Recent studies show that their resolve wavers when racially or ethnically charged issues like neighborhood integration are at stake.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/trump-racism-liberals-suburbs.html
* study had a complicated design
As a child, I constructed the stories I needed to survive his absence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/the-truth-about-my-father.html
He has repeatedly claimed that the Justice Department tried to protect Hillary Clinton. A watchdog’s report says otherwise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/fbi-trump-justice-department-clinton.html
* new report
* wrote this week on the Fox News website
Donate, protest, call — and, eventually, vote this cruelty out of office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/children-parents-asylum-immigration.html
* former Walmart
* something new
* the victim of
* tough deterrent
An inspector general report faulting me also found no evidence of bias or improper motivation in the F.B.I. investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html
What did the Singapore summit accomplish, and did one side come out ahead?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/trump-kim-korea-summit.html
* Trump Was Outfoxed in Singapore
They have faced terrorism, displacement and war. But that hasn’t stopped them reaching the game’s pinnacle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/afghanistan-cricket-terrorism.html
* created the impression
* widespread affection for the national team
* When I visited Afghanistan in late 2014
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Political vengeance is no substitute for smart antitrust enforcement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/att-cnn-time-warner-antitrust.html
* T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion agreement to acquire Sprint
* their combination
* vertical antitrust suit to conclusion in decades
* “I don’t see this as a major antitrust problem.”
* reached a sensible settlement requiring the combined company
The media industry is competitive enough. The Justice Department should not stand in the way of companies cutting costs and merging just to survive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/att-time-warner-merger-good-consumers-antitrust.html
* to greenlight the merger between AT&T and Time Warner
Robert De Niro and Samantha Bee model the wrong way to resist a dangerous president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/trump-midterms-robert-de-niro-samantha-bee.html
* disregard for diplomatic norms
* said another first lady
It gives a diverse group of working-class kids a fairer shot, which shouldn’t be controversial.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/stuyvesant-new-york-schools-de-blasio.html
* (which the Supreme Court outlawed in 1978)
* last year half of these kids came from just 21 middle schools
* “The test is the most unbiased way to get into a school.”
* test scores can underestimate the abilities
We don’t have a good way of talking about the difference between them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/sadness-depression.html
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan would destroy the best high schools in New York City.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/opinion/de-blasio-stuyvesant-school.html
The Gipper advocated “trust but verify.” The Donald believes in “my touch, my feel.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-north-korea-diplomacy-reagan.html
* pursue a version of perestroika
* on Monday he tweeted
The strange continuity in their foreign policy gambits and ambitions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/obama-trump-north-korea-summit.html
* writes
* endgame
The president would make us selfish, dishonest, friendless and ready to stab anyone in the back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-kim-north-korea-allies.html
Donald Trump showed Kim Jong-un a trailer casting both leaders as heroes. The Times’s Opinion video team cut a more honest makeover.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-made-kim-a-movie-trailer-we-made-it-better.html
* fake movie trailer
Richard Rohr Meditation: Justice with Peace “If you want peace, work for justice.” —Pope Paul VI No Images? Click here Richard Rohr's Daily Me...
The biosphere will handle pretty much anything we throw at it. Where that leaves humans is a different question.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/earth-will-survive-we-may-not.html
With insults and invective, President Trump walks away from the global economic and political order America helped to build over generations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/america-isolated-g7-canada.html
* Group of 7
* “fits of anger,”
* said
* Heiko Maas
* Canada’s Globe and Mail.
The meeting was classic Trump: enormous hype, ulcer-inducing suspense, oceans of self-congratulation, ending with grandiose, fuzzy promises.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/north-korea-trump-singapore-style.html
* Mr. Trump said.
* postgame news conference
Don’t scoff. The Singapore summit is a first step toward peace.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-kim-north-korea-summit.html
We may laugh at how people in the past fell for phony remedies — but we can fall for the same tricks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-jordan-peterson-charlatans.html
* popular YouTube videos
* 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
The president brings low-trust politics to the Group of 7.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/g7-trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-foreign-policy.html
Authoritarianism can happen here. For some, it already has.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/trump-border-migrants-separation.html
* proposed a bill
* lawsuit
The United States made important concessions to North Korea, and got nothing tangible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-kim-summit-north-korea.html
* Trump proclaimed
Trump might think he can push around his northern neighbors. He’s wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/will-america-lose-canada.html
* special place in hell
How can the Abe administration weather so many scandals?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/shinzo-abe-japan-scandal-land.html
* fewer votes then than in the 2009 election, which it lost
* limiting the opposition’s question time in the Diet
* the Lockheed bribery case
* the Recruit scandal
* When Mr. Abe called a snap election
* Less than one-third of respondents
Best known for fake beaches, ornate hotels and real estate speculation, Sentosa now will play host to denuclearization talks with North Korea.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/trump-kim-north-korea-summit-singapore-sentosa.html
An anti-American president and the party that won’t lift a finger to stop him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/trump-quisling-enablers.html
* stabbed us in the back
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The box is an avatar of inspiration, no charging required.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/opinion/cardboard-box-creativity-material.html
* Robert Gair, a paper bag manufacturer in Brooklyn
* praised the cardboard box
* mocked up a version of the packing boxes
Last year the National Institutes of Health spent more money researching dietary supplements than it did suicide and suicide prevention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/suicide-rates-increase-anthony-bourdain-kate-spade.html
* a Johns Hopkins study of a group of Danish patients
* six to 10 talk therapy sessions
* he said
* about their moods
There’s a Zuma-Trump test of a democracy’s essential character. South Africa survived. So will the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/trump-south-africa-cyril-ramaphosa.html
* twice alluded to a nonexistent country called “Nambia”
* shithole countries
Yeonmi Park fled North Korea when she was 13. She is now fighting for the millions of other North Koreans still living under the oppressive regime of Kim Jong-un.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/north-korea-trump-kim-human-rights.html
* Human Rights Foundation
They became more critical in the 1890s when activists like Ida B. Wells made lynching an international embarrassment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/northern-newspapers-lynchings.html
* apologized
It has taken 2,500 years, but we finally seem to be getting it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/philosophy-fatherhood.html
Readers fear that the actor’s profane language just alienates Trump supporters, in contrast with Bruce Springsteen’s homage to his hometown.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/robert-deniro-trump.html
* The President Who Must Not Be Named
Trump is using the pardoning of black people as marketing tactic rather than statement of principle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/bull-connor-colin-kaepernick.html
* Trump never mentioned Martin, but said
In two years since the Pulse nightclub shooting, the neighborhood has continued to face the thrum of gun violence.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/10/opinion/editorials/gun-violence-pulse-orlando.html
Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim arrived in Singapore on Sunday
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/trump-kim-north-korea-summit.html
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Voters across Maine will test a sensible reform, known as ranked-choice voting, that could revolutionize how elections happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/ranked-choice-voting-maine-san-francisco.html
* according to FairVote
* some people are still skeptical
* voters made
* told The Atlantic
* with the help of a third-party candidate
Rural Pennsylvanians are not “environmentalists.” They’re “conservationists.” And they’re fighting to reclaim Trump country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/sunday/appalachia-environment-resource-curse.html
Protests against “The Star-Spangled Banner” are not new. For many black Americans, it rings of the unfilled promises of their country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/african-americans-national-anthem-protests.html
* defaulted
What’s at stake isn’t just warheads but also people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/sunday/north-korea-human-rights.html
* United Nations report on North Korea
I had cold, hard evidence of increased lead in the blood of children in Flint, Mich. But no one cared.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/sunday/flint-water-pediatrician-detective.html
There’s only one explanation that fits all of his behavior: He wants to break up the Atlantic alliance that has dominated the past century.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/g7-trump-quebec-trudeau.html
Richard Rohr Meditation: An Unequivocal Call to Justice Clear-headed dualistic thinking must precede any further movement into nondual responses. No I...
The planet’s greatest traveling festival is almost here. And it’s about a lot more than what happens on the pitch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/world-cup-2018-offsides.html
* Ken Bensinger’s explosive
* report
* here
Democrats can’t promote progressive policies while catering to the wealthy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/sunday/affluent-suburbs-democrats.html
* suburban revolt
* Red to Blue
* eight of the 15 most highly educated congressional districts
I don’t have Oprah money, but I’m so used to setbacks like overdraft fees that my new financial status is surreal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/sunday/i-have-post-brokeness-stress-disorder.html
This wasn’t “America first”; it was some combination of temper tantrum and Russia first
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/debacle-in-quebec.html
* agreed to provide economic stimulus
* turn to austerity
* G7 meeting
After 20 years of the same old song and dance, the former president is forced to face the music.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/opinion/sunday/bills-belated-metoo-moment.html
* an eloquent March Vanity Fair piece
A giant fir came crashing down in my front yard during a freakish windstorm, nearly crushing my family and our house. What was the big guy trying to say?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/opinion/the-secret-life-and-value-of-trees.html
* trees talk to one another
* 129 million trees that died