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The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
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The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
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Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies — squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-landlords.html
Weather was often God’s weapon throughout Scripture. At the 2020 Virtual Victory Campaign, Kenneth Copeland shares a timely word about the coming supernatura…
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All along, Willard’s instincts as an actor made us feel better about our own, by showing us characters who are even more absurd than we are.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/no-one-had-instincts-like-fred-willard
After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/
For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/the-twilight-of-the-iranian-revolution
Did a religious group’s beliefs lead to the disappearances of two kids with Arizona ties? FOX 10 has an exclusive look into the digital footprints left by their mother Lori Vallow and her new husband Chad Daybell.
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Epidemics are not a zero-sum game; you cannot ignore one to defend against another.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trumps-anti-globalist-response-to-a-global-coronavirus
An all-star crew, a plan that tricked the police, and a successful getaway that left them with a fortune. But no one expected what happened next.
via GQ: https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-buenos-aires-bank-heist
The father of the founder of the conspiratorial site filed a criminal complaint against me in Bulgaria. Then things got weird.
via The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse?utm_content=buffer0e705&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
At least three correspondents have tested positive for the coronavirus, along with the press secretary and two of her deputies.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/business/white-house-coronavirus.html
Throughout a pandemic that has now landed squarely in the West Wing, Trump officials — who routinely shunned masks — declined to institute thorough safety protocols to protect the White House press corps, according to interviews with reporters who now face the prospect of a rapidly escalating outbreak in their daily work space.
Progressives are wary of the conservative group hammering the President, but its founders say they’re fighting for all Americans.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/12/inside-the-lincoln-projects-war-against-trump
After Obama won his second term, the Republican National Committee commissioned a study that became known as the “autopsy report.” The country’s voting population was diversifying rapidly, and, the report said, young voters were “increasingly rolling their eyes at what the Party represents.” It noted, “Many minorities wrongly think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country.” In a recent book, “It Was All a Lie,” Stevens writes, “How do you go from dedicating a political party to expansion and inclusiveness and two years later rally around a man who calls Mexicans ‘rapists,’ and called for a religious test to enter the United States?” He goes on, “For decades, conservatives attacked liberals for living by ‘situational ethics,’ but the ease with which Republican leaders abandoned any pretense of being more than a whites-only party is the ultimate situational ethic.” In January, Wilson told Trevor Noah that Trump “has broken the Republican Party—it doesn’t believe in anything.” Stunningly, the 2020 Republican National Convention put forward no new platform, signalling that the Party’s sole position was fealty to Trump.
How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa
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More than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba, a U.S. investigation is no closer to determining how they were hurt or by whom, and the FBI and CIA are at odds over the case. A ProPublica investigation reveals the many layers to the mystery — and…
via ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/diplomats-in-cuba
The Guardians: Directed by Xavier Beauvois. With Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry, Cyril Descours. Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
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The Death of Stalin: Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin takes ill and quickly dies. Now the m
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First Reformed: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Victoria Hill. A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormen
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