June 2018 Archives
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Saturday Headlines: Be your own island.
Tomorrow, Mexico votes for a new president. All four candidates are strongly anti-Trump—and the frontrunner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a leftist populist. Inside...
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Friday headlines: It’s electric!
About 575 people, mostly women, were arrested in Washington D.C. while protesting Trump’s immigration policy. In the run-up to his new summit with Putin, Trump says once again...
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Thursday Headlines: An anxious America.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's swing vote, plans to retire, enabling Trump to establish a conservative court. Kennedy has long been considered "the most powerful man in America....
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week Four
We finished our second book of the summer, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, which means it’s time for novelist Laura van den Berg to choose our first victor.
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Wednesday headlines: Soiling the body.
President Trump's third version of a travel ban survived the Supreme Court, limiting citizens of eight nations from entering the US. One good thing about the Supreme Court&rsquo...
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Tuesday Headlines: Who has the right to be civil?
US border patrol pauses criminal prosecution referrals—and therefore family separation—for those illegally entering the US with children. You know Auschwitz isn't going to be for...
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Saturdy headlines: Let’s soul.
President Trump issued an executive order to end his policy of separating families, but the government still has no plan for returning the children it has already taken. The Guardian...
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Friday Headlines: The United States of Disorder.
This week Trump repealed Obama's executive order that protected oceans and the Great Lakes, opening the door to industry and drilling. Health and Human Services asks the Pentagon to...
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Thursday headlines: Trump is flailing.
President Trump abandoned his policy of removing migrant children from their parents’ care. The White House changed its story no fewer than 14 times before ending its border policy. &ldquo...
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Wednesday Headlines: The trick is forgetting.
Perhaps you've already heard it, but here are the sounds of crying migrant children as they're separated from their families at the US-Mexico border. Right now, my six-year-old...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week Three
We start our second book of the summer, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, in conversation with novelists Laura van den Berg and Rosecrans Baldwin.
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Headlines edition
Tuesday headlines: Wake up!
Free speech advocates are cheered by a judge’s ruling to allow a white nationalist to sue Twitter. The US Supreme Court delays making a decision on gerrymandering. The...
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Saturday Headlines: 123456.
A trade war between the US and China looms once again. Following a brief truce in May, the White House launches new tariffs on Chinese goods, and Beijing responds with...
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Friday headlines: My kingdom for a trampoline.
Battles in eastern Yemen may endanger up to 250,000 civilians. Here’s the Yemen conflict explained in 400 words. According to the Inspector General, former FBI Director Comey was “insubordinate...
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Thursday Headlines: TOSS A CHURCH ON ME.
Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, has separated from his lawyers and may be ready to cooperate with federal investigators. Anticipating Cohen's possible flip, Trump's team has...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week Two
We wrap up our first book of the summer, Tomb Song by Julián Herbert, in conversation with novelists Laura van den Berg and Rosecrans Baldwin.
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: ¡Viva the United States of Mexico-Canada!
Trump showed Kim a movie trailer made by the White House for their meeting, presenting Trump and Kim as two heroes on the verge of changing world history. North Korea...
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Tuesday Headlines: Sign first, ask questions later.
At the end of yesterday's summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un, the two leaders signed a vague document with loophole-friendly agreements—e.g., "the DPRK commits to...
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Saturday headlines: Earth don’t lie.
Trump’s tariffs are pushing away some of his most loyal Congressional allies and Republican backers. Macron asks other G7 countries to confront Trump on trade, climate change, and...
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Friday Headlines: The internet is Bruce Willis.
In an apparent second high-profile suicide this week, Anthony Bourdain has died at age 61 in France. In a new CDC report, suicide rates in the US have increased dramatically since 1999,...
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Thursday headines: All body types but Nazi ones.
Democrats aren’t sick of voting yet, and neither are Republicans: Lessons learned from this week’s elections. California may be the heart of the Trump resistance, but...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week One
We kick off our first book of the summer, Tomb Song by Julián Herbert, in conversation with Laura van den Berg and Rosecrans Baldwin.
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday Headlines: Talk about Spartan.
A play-by-play of Trump’s surreal “Celebration of America” event yesterday, thrown together after the president nixed the Philadelphia Eagles' visit, for which only one player was...
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Tuesday headlines: The vanilla standard.
Fifteen legal experts discuss whether President Trump—as he claims—has the power to pardon himself. Etiquette-ing a Trump-Kim summit: Who sits where, who enters when, and who...
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Stranger in a Strange House
I want to tell you, dear strangers, why I’m here and what I encountered. The three-winged pigeon. My cynical doppelganger. The loneliness and marvels and confusions of the...
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Friday Headlines: Work is a four-letter word.
The US unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest since 2000; however, by tweeting this morning about the jobs report ahead of its release, Trump broke federal regulations that are in...