Tag: Reading
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Putin, Long the Sower of Instability, Is Now Surrounded by It – The New York Times
Putin, Long the Sower of Instability, Is Now Surrounded by It (Published 2020) Fueled by the pandemic, uprisings in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan and a war in the Caucasus region are undermining the influence of the Russian leader. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/world/europe/putin-belarus-kyrgyzstan-caucasus.html “For Putin, practically his entire mission and his vision of Russian greatness and success revolve around…
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What Happened When Medical Residents Asked for Hazard Pay | The New Yorker
What Happened When Medical Residents Asked for Hazard Pay At the peak of the pandemic in New York, residents at a multibillion-dollar hospital system asked for better working conditions. The ensuing debate highlighted the profession’s persistent inequities. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/what-happened-when-medical-residents-asked-for-hazard-pay He also circulated an e-mail that one of the medical chairs had sent…
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The Contested Afterlife of the Trump-Alfa Bank Story | The New Yorker
The Contested Afterlife of the Trump-Alfa Bank Story Accusations of secret cyber links remain unproved, but both the Russian bank and the Justice Department are pursuing the case. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-contested-afterlife-of-the-trump-alfa-bank-story For those defending themselves against the lawsuits, their attorneys’ power of discovery would give them extraordinary access to Alfa Bank’s records. But…
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The Last Patrol — The California Sunday Magazine
The Pardon of a Convicted War Criminal In 2019, President Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Clint Lorance, who was serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the murder of two Afghan civilians. To Lorance’s defenders, the act was long overdue. To members of his platoon, it was a gross miscarriage of via The California Sunday Magazine: https://story.californiasunday.com/clint-lorance-court-martial-pardon-the-last-patrol…
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Justin Sun: the crypto millionaire who acquired BitTorrent — and waded into the trade war – The Verge
The crypto millionaire that acquired BitTorrent—and waded into the trade war The Verge’s investigation reveals an attempt to use decentralization to escape accountability from both the US and Chinese governments. via The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china Employees had questions about where Tron was headed and submitted anonymous questions for BitTorrent’s traditional Q&A with the company’s senior leadership.…
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The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum | The New Yorker
The Iconoclast Remaking Los Angeles’s Most Important Museum Will the new LACMA building be Peter Zumthor’s masterpiece or a fiasco? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/12/the-iconoclast-remaking-los-angeles-most-important-museum Anna studied him. She has blond hair, cut asymmetrically, and wore a cobalt-blue shirt. “No,” she said. “You’re a good example of post-traumatic growth.” In 2004, she had accompanied her…
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Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say – The New York Times
Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say (Published 2020) The timing of the deceptive video, which accuses Ilhan Omar of voter fraud, indicates that several conservatives, including Donald Trump Jr., may have known about it in advance. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/politics/project-veritas-ilhan-omar.html A deceptive video released on Sunday by the conservative activist James O’Keefe, which…
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Right-Wing Militias Are Bracing for Civil War – The Atlantic
A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/ In the crowd, I noticed men muttering into walkie-talkies, their eyes hidden behind wraparound shades. To me they had the aspect of children playing…
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Donald Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus, and a Nation Anticipates Chaos | The New Yorker
The President Tests Positive for the Coronavirus, and a Nation Anticipates Chaos The October surprise is here: the health of Donald Trump and that of his wife and senior advisers, and what it all will mean for the governance of the United States. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-tests-positive-for-the-coronavirus-and-a-nation-anticipates-chaos From the very beginning of the pandemic,…
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The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Departure from Fox | The New Yorker
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Departure from Fox A former assistant at the network accused Guilfoyle, who is now one of the Trump campaign’s top fund-raising officials, of sexual harassment—and of attempting to buy her silence. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-history-of-kimberly-guilfoyles-departure-from-fox Ordinarily, allegations like those that have trailed Guilfoyle would likely prove disqualifying for…
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Donald Trump Barely Pays Any Taxes: Will Anyone Care? | The New Yorker
Donald Trump Barely Pays Any Taxes: Will Anyone Care? Will the latest bombshell change anything? The election is the only way to know. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-tax-returns-irs-750-dollars A reader of the Times bombshell, then, can reasonably ask, how is this different from the last bombshell? How is it different from the memoirs by Mary…
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The True Story of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore | Palladium Magazine
The True Story of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore via Palladium Magazine: https://palladiummag.com/2020/08/13/the-true-story-of-lee-kuan-yews-singapore/ Both official and dissident accounts of early Singaporean history reveal a model with three key elements: high modernism, centralized authority, and weak civil society.
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Tax Records Reveal How Fame Gave Trump a $427 Million Lifeline – The New York Times
Tax Records Reveal How Fame Gave Trump a $427 Million Lifeline (Published 2020) “The Apprentice” rescued Donald J. Trump, bringing him new sources of cash and a myth that would propel him to the White House. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/28/us/donald-trump-taxes-apprentice.html This article is based on an examination of data from those returns, which include personal and business…
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Watching “Watchmen” as a Descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre | The New Yorker
Watching “Watchmen” as a Descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre A family was surprised to find their great-grandparents’ businesses at the center of the HBO show’s depiction of the Greenwood race riots. Now they want to tell their own story. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/watching-watchmen-as-a-descendant-of-the-tulsa-race-massacre The notion of reaching out to the Williams family or…
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“This Is So Unpresidential”: Notes from the Worst Debate in American History | The New Yorker
“This Is So Unpresidential”: Notes from the Worst Debate in American History Trump talked and talked on Tuesday night, but, politically speaking, it added up to nothing. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/this-is-so-unpresidential-notes-from-the-worst-debate-in-american-history But even for Trump, there was something particularly over the top about his debate performance on Tuesday night. It was more of a…
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The Elusive Peril of Space Junk | The New Yorker
The Elusive Peril of Space Junk Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-elusive-peril-of-space-junk Small or large, personal or industrial—retrieving anything from space is immensely difficult, and has been done on just a handful of occasions. The military tracks about twenty-six…
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Biden and Trump’s First Debate Did Not End Well | The New Yorker
Biden and Trump’s First Debate Did Not End Well Debates are meant to present contrasts, but at the outset this one delivered only characters. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/biden-and-trumps-first-debate-did-not-end-well Wallace kept trying to get the President to say that he would play by the normal rules, but each exchange only encouraged Trump to signal that…
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N.I.H. Official Departs After Anonymous Posts Attacking Public Health Leaders – The New York Times
N.I.H. Official Departs After Anonymous Posts Attacking Public Health Leaders (Published 2020) A managing editor of the right-wing website RedState appeared to attack Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic while working for Dr. Fauci’s agency. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/politics/nih-fauci-misinformation.html In another post late last month, he wrote, “If you need a mask…
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Opinion | Biden and Trump’s First Debate: Best and Worst Moments – The New York Times
Opinion | Biden and Trump’s First Debate: Best and Worst Moments (Published 2020) How Round 1 looked to Times Opinion writers. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/opinion/presidential-debate-trump-biden.html Peter Wehner Maybe the lowest point in an unbelievable series of low points was when Biden spoke movingly of his late son Beau, in the context of his war service, and Trump…
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A Young Kennedy, in Kushnerland, Turned Whistle-Blower | The New Yorker
A Young Kennedy, in Kushnerland, Turned Whistle-Blower When Robert F. Kennedy’s grandson Max volunteered with Jared Kushner’s COVID-19 task force, he likened the Trump Administration’s pandemic response to “a family office meets organized crime, melded with ‘Lord of the Flies.’ ” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/a-young-kennedy-in-kushnerland-turned-whistle-blower As the days passed, and the death count climbed, Kennedy was…