August 2019 Archives
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Headlines Edition
Friday Headlines: The unbearable rightness of fact-checking.
We will be off tomorrow for Labor Day, and we’ll see you on Tuesday. All of Florida is under a state of emergency with Hurricane Dorian potentially arriving...
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Thursday headlines: Thirtysomething and something else.
The Trump administration significantly loosens restrictions on methane emissions. Even major oil and gas companies oppose the move. Russia and China move to exploit the Arctic as the climate crisis...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week 12: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
It’s the final day of discussion at Camp ToB, as we finish up the second half of Black Leopard, Red Wolf—and you decide which of our August reads is triumphant.
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Wednesday headlines: The Queen’s Gambit.
Boris Johnson asks England’s Queen to suspend Parliament to stop lawmakers from blocking a no-deal Brexit. From the Fed to China to Obama, a rundown of those Trump...
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Tuesday headlines: Send me home.
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $572 million in the first ruling in the US holding a drugmaker accountable for helping fuel the opioid epidemic. As a final gesture of the...
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Saturday Headlines: Couplings to artifacts from The Daybreak Announcement.
Yesterday, China announced $75 billion in tariffs on US goods, Trump answered with increased tariffs on Chinese goods and "ordering" US companies to cut ties with China, and the Dow ended...
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Friday headlines: Eeny, meeny, miny, snow.
South Korea will scrap its intelligence-sharing pact with Japan. The move, benefiting North Korea and China, shows the weakness of the White House. For a 12th weekend of protests,...
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Thursday Headlines: Renfaire the runway.
The Trump administration wants to remove limits on how long undocumented families can be detained, arguing the regulation incentivizes migration. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts the federal deficit will reach...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week 11: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Five books down, one big, gory, complicated, shock-inducing book to go. This week, we discuss the first half of Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: When “he’s gone!” ↦ “it’s back!”
Boris Johnson visits Berlin in an attempt to negotiate a new deal, with only two months before the Brexit deadline. The Danish legal system is being roiled because of errors...
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Tuesday Headlines: Five years.
Five years after choking Eric Garner to death, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo has been fired. Planned Parenthood withdraws from federal funding, citing the Trump administration's rule barring abortion referrals. ...
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Saturday headlines: Jia Tolentino has a posse.
Topical headline TK Topical headline TK Topical headline TK Some think democracy is having a midlife crisis. New books suggest we don’t even know what democracy is. This...
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Friday Headlines: The understory.
A new Trump proposal would allow federally contracted businesses to use religious objections as a means of discriminating against workers based on nearly anything. Following reports that Trump repeatedly asked...
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Thursday headlines: It’s called a library.
Global markets continue to slide, with the 30-year US government bond yield dropping to its lowest level on record. People who buy expensive bunkers—a booming business currently&mdash...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week 10: American Spy
This week, we wrap up our discussion of the first book in our August matchup: Lauren Wilkinson’s American Spy.
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Headlines edition
Wednesday headlines: Nineteen baby-four.
Since El Paso, at least six men have been arrested in separate threats to undertake copycat murders. A lack of diversity in media is seen in the short shrift given...
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Tuesday headlines: Sure you’re busier.
For yet another day, protesters practically shut down Hong Kong’s airport. Hong Kong’s chief executive refused to offer a political solution to the crisis. “What...
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Saturday Headlines: Abbey road jam.
Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found dead by apparent suicide in his jail cell this morning. Critical US voting systems remain vulnerable, with many still accessible online, despite officials'...
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Friday headlines: Jonesing for forever.
The annual Hajj pilgrimage begins today. In 2018, 2.37 million Muslims made the journey to Mecca. Russians plan protests tomorrow in Moscow and 40 other cities for another weekend of civil unrest. ...
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Thursday Headlines: Shock me.
In raids on seven food-processing plants in Mississippi, 680 undocumented workers were arrested, in some cases leaving children with no one to pick them up from school. Swept up in Trump'...
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Camp ToB 2019
Week Nine: American Spy
Four books down, and two to go until our end-of-summer finale, where you’ll decide which of our Camp ToB reads goes to the 2020 Tournament of Books. This week, we begin our final matchup of the summer with the first half of American Spy.
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Headlines Edition
Wednesday headlines: The bluest guy.
The President visits Dayton and El Paso. Dayton’s mayor says Trump’s comments on guns are “unhelpful.” Leaders in El Paso urge Trump to stay...
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Tuesday Headlines: Gunpower.
Two more people have died from this weekend's mass shooting in El Paso, bringing the death toll to 22 victims. How the Trump campaign has used Facebook advertising to promote...
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Saturday headlines: Known goal.
The US officially quits the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement, so maybe we’ll have a new arms race with Russia. Trump lets it be known he doesn’t...
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Friday Headlines: Rave on.
No one knows who will become Puerto Rico's governor after Rosselló steps down at 5 p.m. today. In a memo, the FBI has identified fringe conspiracy theories&mdash...
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Thusday headlines: A velvet divorce.
The winner of Wednesday’s debate? Universal healthcare. The theme of the debate? Joe Biden is too far behind the Democrats’ shift to the left. The Republicans’...