May 2018 Archives
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The Rooster
Welcome to the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge
Meet your judges and hosts, check out the summer book list, and get reading.
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Headlines Edition
Thursday Headlines: 4,645.
The number of excess deaths related to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is 4,645, more than 70 times the official estimate of 64 people. Donald Trump is a liar—and that fact...
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: This one’s for the cheaters.
Secretary of State Pompeo to meet “North Korean regime insider” Kim Yong-chol in New York to discuss the lingering possibility of a June summit. Trump to meet Kim...
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The Rooster
The Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up: Wrap-up
A final discussion with Sarah Hepola, Rosecrans Baldwin, and Andrew Womack about the three memoirs we read this month.
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Headlines edition
Friday headlines: I should be happy, but I’m not.
President Trump cancels the summit with North Korea after the Vice President is called an idiot. The commemorative coin is still for sale from the White House gift shop. Trump...
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Headlines Edition
Thursday headlines: North Korea’s complaint.
A longtime North Korean diplomat calls Mike Pence “stupid,” and says any comparisons to Libya are “ignorant.” At the same time, North Korea dismantles its main...
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday Headlines: Hu hu hu hu.
After winning Georgia's Democratic nomination yesterday, Stacey Abrams could now become America's first black woman governor in November. See also: More key election takeaways from Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky,...
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The Rooster
The Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up: Priestdaddy, Second Half
Today we wrap up our third and final book in this month’s reading, as Sarah Hepola and Andrew Womack discuss the culmination of Patricia Lockwood’s memoir, which ends up being about so much more than her father.
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Headlines edition
Tuesday headlines: Anyone got 30 mil?
The Justice Department expands its internal investigation into the FBI's Russia probe after FBI and Justice officials met with President Trump. The question is, who blinked? A thoughtful Twitter...
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Headlines Edition
Saturday headlines: Again / not again.
Three months after Parkland, America grieves yet another massacre of children by a young man with guns. This year has seen an average of slightly more than one school shooting...
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The Rooster
The Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up: Priestdaddy, First Half
We’re down to the last book in our first-ever Tournament of Books nonfiction event. Today, Sarah Hepola and Andrew Womack discuss the beginning of Patricia Lockwood’s memoir, Priestdaddy.
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Headlines Edition
Friday Headlines: Naming names.
A new White House proposal would prevent Planned Parenthood and other organizations from receiving federal money while providing abortions, even if those services use private funding. After one death and...
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Headlines Edition
Thursday Headlines: The climate is changing faster than gender inequality.
“Gaza buries its dead as death toll from protests at fence with Israel rises to at least 60.” Are we to assume that the protests—and not the...
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday Headlines: We’re not gonna talk about Yanny.
Yesterday, North Korea seemed to take an abrupt about-face, canceling a meeting with South Korea and threatening to call off the Trump-Kim summit—possibly over US-South Korea military drills...
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Headlines Edition
Tuesday Headlines: Clueless in Gaza.
Funerals begin in Gaza after 58 Palestinians were killed and 2,700 were injured in conflict with Israeli forces during the controversial inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem. Israel and the White...
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The Rooster
The Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up: Educated, Second Half
Our first-ever Tournament of Books nonfiction event continues. Today TMN’s Rosecrans Baldwin and Sarah Hepola discuss the conclusion to Tara Westover’s harrowing, inspiring Educated.
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Headlines edition
Saturday headlines: Another line crossed.
By maligning McCain, the Trump White House reached a new low for political debasement this week. Worth remembering with all this talk of torture: Christopher Hitchens got waterboarded so you...
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Headlines edition
Friday headlines: Escape this.
Senator John McCain—recently mocked by a White House official, not to mention grossly insulted on TV by a Fox News analyst—is fighting Trump with his dying...
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The Rooster
The Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up: Educated, First Half
Our first-ever Tournament of Books nonfiction event continues. Today we talk with memoirist Sarah Hepola about the first half of Tara Westover’s astonishing Educated.
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Headlines edition
Thursday headlines: This space is getting hot.
President Trump thanks Kim Jong Un for releasing three Americans detained in North Korea. Here's how it happened and what it means. Michael Cohen made more than $2 million "working...
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: That $#@^%#! horse is still in the hospital.
Normally silent about the doings of the White House, Obama responds to Trump’s plan to pull out of the Iran deal. Trump’s plan to abandon the...
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The Rooster
The Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up: Hunger, Second Half
Our first-ever Tournament of Books nonfiction event continues. Today we talk with author Sarah Hepola about the conclusion of Roxane Gay’s astonishing memoir.
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Headlines edition
Tuesday headlines: Nouns and fury.
European diplomats, despite recent talks, expect Trump to say he intends to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal this afternoon. If Trump moves to re-impose sanctions, look for a...
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Headlines Edition
Saturday Headlines: Dance to the radio.
“Every little thing that we eat has been bred for very specific characteristics. People have fought about the breeding of apples the same way people think about building new...
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The Rooster
The Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up: Hunger, First Half
Our first-ever Tournament of Books nonfiction event begins with a conversation with author Sarah Hepola about Roxane Gay’s powerful 2017 memoir, through chapter 42.
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Headlines edition
Friday headlines: Groundhog day all over again.
The White House’s trade delegation in China wants a bilateral trade imbalance slashed immediately, and for China to stop subsidizing tech. Netanyahu’s case against the Iran...
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Headlines Edition
Thursday Headlines: Mosquitoes are hungrier, is all.
A month after Trump claimed he didn't know about the $130,000 Michael Cohen gave Stormy Daniels, new Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says Trump reimbursed Cohen $35,000 a month for a year...
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: The end is known.
In early March, Mueller told Trump’s legal team he could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury. They weren’t happy to...
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The Rooster
Welcome to the Rooster Nonfiction Pop-up
Real facts, real events, real people—oh my! It’s time for our first ever Tournament of Books nonfiction event.
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Headlines Edition
Tuesday Headlines: Nice free press you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.
What did you mean when you told Russian diplomats on May 10, 2017, that firing Mr. Comey had taken the pressure off? An analysis of the questions Robert Mueller supposedly wants to...