August 2018 Archives
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Friday headlines: Backpack time.
Canada and the US inch closer to a NAFTA 2.0 deal for Trump’s Friday deadline. For what it’s worth, the Friday deadline isn’t actually real. ...
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Thursday headlines: Because Starbucks says so.
Bipartisan members of Congressencourage the president to impose sanctions on Beijing for incarcerating millions of Uyghur Muslims in “training centers.” The White House has reportedlycreateda...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: The Final
It’s the end of the summer, the readers have spoken, and we have a winner.
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Wednesday headlines: #Toosoon.
California’s Assembly passes a bill requiring 100% of the state’s electricity to come from carbon-free sources by 2045. A federal court rules that North Carolina Republicans illegally gerrymandered...
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Tuesday headlines: Is it bad or good, or bad and better?
Trump and Mexico reach a deal on NAFTA, now re-dubbed the US Mexico Trade Agreement, putting pressure on Canada. Voters head to the polls in Florida, Arizona, and Oklahoma to...
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Announcements
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Saturday Headlines: You are the boss of today.
Across North America, prisoners are striking over treatment and forced labor that amounts to modern slavery. Since 2010, at least 404 people with mental illness have died in US jails—which...
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Friday headlines: Hard irony poisoning.
Hurricane Lane has weakened, but it’s still expected to be hazardous in Hawaii over the next couple of days. A week of chaos continues in Australia’s...
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Thursday Headlines: Plead, pleaded, pleading.
Trump's tweet about the murder of South African farmers—which are at a 20-year low—and land expropriation is a popular conspiracy theory among white nationalists who...
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Wedesday headlines: Legal jeapardy.
In a dizzying day of news, Manafort is found guilty, Michael Cohen implicates the President, and the White House says there’s nothing to see here. The President, Donald...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 12
It’s the second-to-last week of the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, which means two big things: Novelist Emma Straub decides between August’s two books and the commentariat votes for the book of the summer.
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Headlines Edition
Tuesday Headlines: All dogs go to Saturn.
Last night, protesters on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tore down the "Silent Sam" Confederate statue. In 2017, UNC spent $390,000 on the monument's security. ...
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Saturday headlines: Spy vs. President.
Torrential flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala kills more than 320 people. More rains are predicted. Yet another problem caused by climate change: “border water.” The White...
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Friday Headlines: The queen is dead.
“When that lady sits down at the piano and gets her body and soul all over some righteous song, she’ll scare the shit out of you. And...
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Thursday headlines: Home! Troubled home!
More than 70 people overdosed in New Haven, CT, on K2, a synthetic cannabinoid that may have been laced with fentanyl. More than 72,000 Americans died last year from drug overdoses, a 10%...
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Wednesday Headlines: “It happened everywhere.”
“For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: It happened everywhere.” The grand jury on the sexual abuse investigation...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 11
We’re in the home stretch of the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge, as we begin our final book of the season: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. We’re again joined by our August judge, Emma Straub, in conversation with Nozlee Samadzadeh.
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Headlines Edition
Tuesday headlines: Honey. Hot bologna. Hot lips.
Vanguard says the chances of a recession by late 2020 have risen to between 30 and 40 percent. A path forward for the GOP: Running candidates in cities like San Diego who are...
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Saturday Headlines: Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Horror at Charlottesville did not temper the president’s enthusiasm for demonizing religious and ethnic minorities that characterized his 2016 campaign, and has not dampened his administration’s efforts...
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Friday headlines: It’s “something you already know.”
Washington prepares for a rally tomorrow of Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other alt-right-ers. American flags and Confederate flags are permitted at the rally. Nazi flags, unlike last year, are not. ...
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Thursday Headlines: You can and will be used against you.
In a 38-31 vote, Argentina's senate rejects a bill to legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Behind the scenes on Rep. Chris Collins and Innate Immunotherapeutics, and...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week 10
It’s the final month in the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge. Novelist Emma Straub and our own Nozlee Samadzadeh wrap up their discussion of Kudos by Rachel Cusk.
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday headlines: Panic! At the house.
Tuesday night ended with Republican Troy Balderson narrowly ahead in an Ohio district that Trump previously won by 11 points. CNN says it’s time for Republicans to panic about...
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Tuesday Headlines: Reading the tea leaves.
Today's special election in Ohio's 12th District is the final Democrat challenge to a Republican stronghold ahead of the midterms. And in today's Democratic primaries across four...
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Headlines Edition
Saturday headlines: Why does somebody start a fire.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may have lost his job because he fought too hard to prevent Saudi Arabia from invading Qatar. Looking at Zimbabwe's election, Mnangagwa has one...
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Friday Headlines: Stay hungry and carry on.
It’s time other newsrooms learn to spot these hateful campaigns for what they are. In a message of support for writer Sarah Jeong, The Verge calls on publications...
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It’s not at all uncommon for couples to choose to work with a marriage counselor—and not all couples resort to this step when their relationships have...
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Thursday headlines: When a wife earns more.
The Manafort trial sees much talk of expensive cars, clothes, and furnishings, none of Manafort’s work running Trump’s campaign. Day three is likely to be another...
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Wednesday Headlines: They don’t love you like I love you.
The 2020 electoral map is looking markedly different than in prior races—states rarely in play suddenly are. Depending on your 2016 electoral map visualization, you can argue America's heading...
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The Rooster
The 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge: Week Nine
It’s a new month in the 2018 Rooster Summer Reading Challenge. This week we welcome a new judge, Emma Straub, who will be in conversation all month long with Nozlee Samadzadeh. First up: Kudos by Rachel Cusk.