Nikole Hannah-Jones is a genius. We know that because the McArthur Foundation gave her a “genius grant.” She is renowned worldwide, and is currently a professor at Howard University and a New York Times columnist. Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine […]
ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — The oldest gas station in America still in operation, Reighard’s here in this Blair County city, got its start in 1908 when a local blacksmith decided to sell gasoline out the back of his shop when the Model T was introduced. It has been open ever since. While […]
For this story to make sense you have to know about a movie that came out in 2013 called Her. The movie was essentially a science fiction romance about a guy played by Joaquin Phoenix who falls in love with an operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Johansson never appears in the movie but her voice is […]
This has become one of the persistent questions that we’ve been wrestling with over most of the first three and a half years of this presidency. Does Joe Biden simply lie to the American people all of the time? Or does he actually believe that many of the things that he says actually happened when […]
In January, William Lai won the election in Taiwan to become the country’s next president. As I described at the time, China was clearly not happy about this, fearing that Lai was more willing to openly push for independence than his predecessor Tsai Ing-wen. Before the election China had not-so-subtly warned that any move toward […]
We’ve had an ongoing public argument over whether or not people are unhappy about the economy because things are actually bad or if it’s merely some sort of vibecession. The vibecession people generally argue that Bidenomics has been great but that people don’t admit it because they are being fooled by misleading media reports (usually […]
Oh, FFS, Time Magazine… Jasper never considered he might be pregnant. Despite the nausea, the stomach pain, the fatigue, the possibility never crossed his mind. He was about six months into testosterone therapy, a form of gender-affirming care.https://t.co/Cm8MEe6q1e — TIME (@TIME) May 15, 2024 HE did not get pregnant because MEN do not get pregnant. […]
Iranian President Raisi must have been a really good guy, to judge from the reaction of the United Nations, the European Union, the World Health Organization, and countless world leaders to his death. The United Nations Security Council held a moment of silence to mourn his passing, which makes sense since his country chairs the organization’s Human […]
Between a recent round of new sanctions on China and the race to force the sale of TikTok or ban it, America’s already fraying relationship with China has been growing even chillier. Add to that the mounting tensions over the situation with Taiwan and you have a recipe for a confrontation of some sort, but […]
The International Criminal Court may do what looks impossible at the moment: keep the Israeli unity government together. This morning, the ICC’s chief prosecutor investigating the war has issued requests for five arrest warrants, two of which target Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant. Karim Khan also requested arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, […]
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