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US “Closer to Civil War” Than Most Would Like, New Book Says | american politics
The United States is "closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe," said a member of a key CIA advisory group.Analysis by Barbara f walter, professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego who sits…
Revel in the joys of books and reading at a Baghdad Book Fair
BAGHDAD - Protesters in Baghdad are staging a sit-in demanding that US troops leave Iraq. Counterterrorism troops patrol the streets. A federal court is wondering whether to certify the results of parliamentary elections two months…
Tyler Stovall, renowned professor of history and former dean of the humanities, dies at 67
Tyler Stovall, renowned historian, professor and former dean of the humanities at UC Santa Cruz, died on December 10, 2021 at his New York home. He was 67 years old.
Stovall is the author of 10 books and various articles on the history…
America has a new superhero and it’s a book titled 2021 American Ideologies Reimagined by…
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Detention bar invention - Humane way of holding and restraining on the ground and in the air
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Book: ‘Portuguese Home Cooking’ by Ana Patuleia Ortins – Editor’s note
Posted on December 11, 2021.
The Mediterranean diet is renowned for its fresh and vibrant cuisine. In this book, Ana Patuleia Ortins invites you to discover or revisit the comforting peasant cuisine of Portugal,…
The Archive Project – Aimee Nezhukumatathil with Kawai Strong Washburn
Your browser does not support the audio element.Aimee Nezhukumatathil (left), Kawai Strong Washburn (right, photo by Crystal Lieppa)Lieppa Crystal / OPBIn this episode of âLiterary Arts: The Archival…
Unwanted Puppy Becomes Theme of New Book | Local
HADLEY - Patricia Nugent didn't want a new puppy.She tried for weeks to give it away.The golden retriever puppy was a retirement gift, as she had always said that one day she would retire from education, write the Great…
Review To Rescue the Republic: Grant, the Crisis of 1876… and a Fox News anchor reluctant to…
For a bunch of TV presenters and reporters, the Fox News team are passionate about doodling. Often with co-writers, former host Bill O'Reilly writes about assassinations and Brian Kilmeade authors stories. Bret Baier is the political…
New book wins “title of the strangest book of the year”
"Is Superman circumcised?" âWon a competition this year forâ Strangest Book Title â. The prize, called The Diagram Prize, has been awarded annually since 2000 by The Bookseller…
Race is a reality Americans are reluctant to consider
November was an important month for racial tensions in the United States. The guilty verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery's murder trial and the Federal Court ruling ordering prominent white supremacists to pay $ 25 million to the victims of…
How to Get a 5th Night Free with the Hilton Honors American Express Card
The Hilton Honors American Express card is the only Hilton credit card that does not charge an annual fee, which is just one of the reasons it remains popular with consumers. Having this card also earns generous rewards for every dollar…
“New World Coming” is co-edited by Salt Lake Tribune reporter Alastair Lee Bitsóí
"New World Coming" is co-edited by Salt Lake Tribune reporter Alastair Lee BitsóÃ(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alastair Lee Bitsóà | November 28, 2021, 5:40 p.m. | Update:…
American Musical Titan Stephen Sondheim Dies Aged 91
An afternoon tutorial followed, teaching him, from Mr. Sondheim's account, more about the trade than most songwriters learn in their lifetime. Hammerstein gave him a path of writing exercises: adapting a good piece to a musical; adapt an…
A resurrection of the indigenous language of the Serrano people
Ernest Siva, 84, is one of the last oral historians of the indigenous Serrano language.(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
When Ernest Siva…
Navajo poet discusses identity, history and tragedy during Native American Heritage Month event at…
Salt Lake Community College has three other events in honor of Indigenous contributions.(Courtesy photo) Students and faculty at Salt Lake Community College listen to Diné poet Tacey M. Atsitty as she reads from her book "Rain…
Media abandoned middle class, book says
Throughout the books, 2020 was the annus horribilis of meritocracy. Daniel Markovits cautioned against "The Meritocracy Trap", while "The Tyranny of Merit" won Michael Sandel several book of the year awards. Both…
Publication of joint studies by Iranian and American academics on Russian composer Dmitry…
TEHRAN - A book presenting joint studies by Iranian scholar Amir-Hossein Ramezani and American music critic and author David Hurwitz has been published.
Ramezani and a large number of academics and musicians, including Nader…
“Born on the Water” from Project 1619 is the book every American child needs
Imagine yourself as a black elementary school student who has just been given a project to trace your family's roots. You notice that your white peers have no problem going back hundreds of years to document their lineage, but apart from…
Wayne Thiebaud – The Paisano
âWayne Thiebaud: 100 Paintings, Prints and Drawingsâ presented at the McNayThe "Wayne Thiebaud" art exhibit is a new exhibit that opened on October 28 and will be available until January 16, 2022. The…
A fictional series set during the Civil War
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Authentic voices shape this fresh take on a familiar story, the Civil War. While the war provides the chronological framework for this trilogy, the narrative grip passes through the eyes of civilians,…
Colleyville, Texas, director resigns after critical debate over racial theory
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A Black North Texas manager agreed to resign after being put on paid administrative leave in August amid…
Elon Musk’s nine essential books
It's Halloween, time for a spooky story.
And do I have one for you.
You may or may not believe in ghosts, that's fine. Personally, I'm not sure what to believe, but part of me thinks these things happen.
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“He could and probably will try to do it again”: Jake Tapper takes Republicans’…
CNN anchor Jake tapper throws his hat into the crowded circle of deep journalistic dives on January 6 and the 2020 election. In recent weeks, Bob woodward and Robert costa took out their book, Danger, which brought to light the now…
Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize with “Spectacular” Novel The Promise | Books
Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for his portrayal of a white South African family sailing towards the end of apartheid. The judges hailed The Promise as "a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think again", and…
James Ivory, famous for his button-down movies, talks about sex and more in his memoirs
Merchant and Ivory, working normally with writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, were one of the most dominant cinematic forces of the late 20th century, deploying luxurious adaptations of the novels by EM Forster and Henry James, with occasional…
American Airlines flight cancellations leave travelers stranded at local airports – CBS San…
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Citing weather issues and staff shortages, American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights on Sunday, leaving travelers at San Francisco Bay Area airports to scramble to find alternative routes to their…
14 fashion books to give away this holiday season
There is no better gift than a good read, and for the fashion lovers on your list, this holiday season is full of delicacies. Take, for example, Annie Leibovitz's book Wonderland, by compiling her most enchanting fashion images, or Slim…
The moral and magical political fictions of Carolina de Robertis
José Mujica, 2008. (Photo by Miguel Rojo / AFP via Getty Images)
In 1975, a deeply disillusioned former CIA officer, Philip Agee, denounced his former employer in a stunning manner: he published the diaries he kept while…
Reviews | Wokeness oversimplifies the American credo
I also suspect that I am not the only one, upon hearing the term "systemic racism", quietly wondering how useful it is to use the same word, racism, for both explicit bigotry and inequality. , even if the latter is based on race. In his…
Book review: “The Chancellor”, by Kati Marton
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is famous for her simple but straightforward style. "I don't have charisma," she once complained to Tony Blair, "and I'm not good at communicating."She was wrong on both points. His anti-exuberance, in a…
A CIA fighter, a Somali bomb maker, and a faltering shadow war
US analysts estimate that Al Shabab commands between 5,000 and 10,000 fighters. Under Mr. Mohamed, their bombs have become more sophisticated and more powerful.The group is using its hold over the port of Mogadishu to smuggle large…
ACDL Partners with KSUA for NEA Big Read | Local News
ASHTABULA - To celebrate Native American History Month, the Ashtabula…
American Association of University Women’s Book Sale Continues October 22-24 | Local News
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Syracuse Law Symposium to Combat the Threat of “Executive Authoritarianism”
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Important New Book by University Professor David Driesenâ "The specter of dictatorship: judicial empowerment of the presidential power(Stanford, 2021) - reveals how the presidentialism of the United States…
American Heritage Credit Union donates over 2,600 pounds – Daily Local
American Heritage Credit Union recently donated more than 2,600 books to hospitals, community centers and special care facilities throughout the Philadelphia area and its suburbs during its 12th Annual Children's Book Program. The program…
The disappearance of a black communist in Stalin’s Russia
In the spring of 1936, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, an African American from Dallas, Texas, disappeared in Moscow. He had lived in the Soviet Union for nearly a decade, most recently with his wife, Marina, a Russian Jewish chemist, in a cramped…
Jonathan Franzen may be hated on Twitter, but serious readers love him
While working on his third novel, the crisis in American literature became a crisis for Franzen personally. The book stalls, immobilized by the weight of its ambition. To feel "an overwhelming imperative to engage explicitly" in the…
Betty Wood obituary | History books
My friend and mentor Betty Wood, who died of cancer at the age of 76, was a Cambridge scholar and historian of the study of slavery, gender and religion in the Atlantic world. She was among the first to study slaves, and particularly…
“Disability drives innovation” – The New York Times
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.Do you like audiobooks? "You have blind people to thank for this," said Catherine kudlick, director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at…
Best-selling author, St. Charles West alumnus, first African-American to receive key to the city
ST. CHARLES, Mo. - Monday night was a loop time for Joseph Luckett. The St. Charles native is a 2003 St. Charles West High School alumnus. Dozens of people came to the high school Monday to honor Luckett in recognition of his…
The Nobel Prize for Dark Literature
Another year in which the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to a writer whom I have never read - and I am beginning to despair. Does the Swedish Nobel Committee want to present me as a Philistine? I ask myself this question…
On my radar: Edmund de Waal’s cultural highlights | Edmond de Waal
Bborn in Nottingham in 1964, Edmund de Waal is an artist, master potter and author of The hare with the amber eyes, who won the Costa Biography Prize in 2010. He took an early interest in ceramics and his second book, The white road,…
Bjorn Lomborg: Danish “skeptical environmentalist” beloved by American conservatives
Throughout September, as the United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow approaches, The Wall Street Journal ran a opinion piece series by Bjorn Lomborg, a notorious climate âskepticâ from Denmark who…
‘American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally’ reveals a lot about Portland native traitor
Al Pacino in a scene from "American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally" 2021. IMDb photo
Finally, we know what happened to Al Pacino.
He didn't die in Sicily with that puppy sniffing around his hat.
Beside his run as a Nazi hunter in…
Columbia Falls All-American leads Providence volleyball in high goal setting
GREAT FALLS - When the history of the University of Providence volleyball program is written, there will be no chapter from the 1970s - when the Frontier Conference began to crown the champions.
There won't be any…
La Morenita’s matriarch tells her story in a self-written book
It has been 50 years since Guadalupe Cordoba, a resident of Turlock, came from Mexico to the Central Valley and changed the region's cuisine for the better - a journey she recalls in her book "La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba…
Finalists announced for this year’s National Book Awards
A dietary brief that examines a mother's schizophrenia. A novel about an author's book tour and growing up as a black boy in the rural south. Poetry honoring migrants who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande.These are some of the…
SNL premiere parodies Cuomo’s resignation and controversial book deal
NEW YORK (WETM) - Saturday Night Live returned for its 47th season on October 1, and the writers haven't let former Gov. Andrew Cuomo get away with it.
In the cold start of the first season, SNL rookie James Austin Johnson took…
Waco ISD Libraries Amid $ 3.5 Million Upgrade | Education
âDr Kincannon and I realized that our libraries were outdated and not being used as they should be,â he said.Years of low budget priorities had robbed librarians in some schools, leaving library…
Researchers spent a year examining American monuments. Here is what they learned | Smart News
Unsurprisingly, the audit found that the majority of American monuments commemorate white male historical figures.
Smithsonian Museum…
Art Lander’s Outdoors: “America’s Bountiful Waters” Provides a Mine of…
The bountiful waters of America is a treasure trove of information on natural history, conservation, and ongoing efforts to restore and expand populations of dozens of freshwater and saltwater fish.
There are profiles of…
Cooper explores the Vanderbilt legacy
NEW YORK (AP) - When Anderson Cooper was 6, his father took him to see the statue of Cornelius "The Commodore" Vanderbilt near New York's Grand Central Terminal. The transport mogul was the richest man in America when he died in 1877, the…
Cameron West’s New Book “A Great American Dick Punch” Is A True, Powerful Story…
ARLINGTON, Texas, September 30, 2021 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / - Cameron West Completed His New Book, "A Great…
New American car start-up Lucid begins production
It's good that America has seen new auto companies not only spring up, but also put cars into production. Looks like it's been a long time. All this and more in The morning shift by September 29, 2021.1st Gear: I remember Lucid was close…
Joy Harjo, first Native American poet laureate, begins third term
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo inside the Library of Congress building. (Photo by Shawn Miller / Library of!-->…
Craig Johnson’s Next Signing Session: Shining a Light on the ‘Horrific’ Realities…
Craig Johnson and his new book Daughter of Morning Star (Courtesy Craig Johnson)
CASPER, Wyo. - Are you a fan of the famous Wyoming author Craig johnson? He writes the Longmire series, which is also a hit show on Netflix.…
Woodward / Costa Book: Bill Barr Was Right to Advise Donald Trump on Suburban Voters (Opinion)
According to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their revealing book âPeril,â Barr told Trump, âThere are a lot of people, Independents and Republicans in the suburbs of critical states,…
Craig Johnson uses mystery to explore violence against Native American women
"Daughter of the Morning Star" by Craig Johnson (Viking)
Cheyenne Tribal Police Chief Lolo Long's niece Jayla, star of the Lame Deer Lady Stars high school basketball team, is in danger. The girl has received…
Charles Sellers, 98, historian who turned post-war consensus upside down, dies
Charles Sellers, a historian whose work on early 19th-century America helped overturn the postwar consensus that democracy and capitalism developed in tandem by showing that in fact they were more often disagree, died Thursday at his home…
On “Give My Love to the Savages” by Chris Stuck
IN A RECENT online reading Hosted by Book Soup, moderator Chris L. Terry pointed out that despite the mix of author Chris Stuck (his Instagram handle is @super_biracial_man), the characters he writes about tend to be black. Stuck admitted…
Has the President’s top military adviser broken the American chain of command?
Sep 24, 2021WASHINGTON DCCIVIL CONTROL of the armed forces is the hallmark of a mature democracy. Among the grievances of America's founders was the deployment of British troops without the consent of local elected officials; they…
House approves funding for Israel’s Iron Dome
WASHINGTON - The House Thursday by an overwhelming majority approved $ 1 billion in new funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, after a debate that revealed bitter divisions among Democrats over US policy towards one of its…
Rochester’s most famous African-American resident George Gibbs is the subject of a new book
Most of the people of Rochester are vaguely aware of his exploits if for no other reason his name is worn in the places where he had the most impact: in Rochester, where a school and a street are named after…
Reviews | Is Biden showing undertones of Trump?
âIt was the longest day of the year and the Irish Sea had a metallic tint. The waves were tiny but insistent, like uncooperative children. It's a passage from DT Max recent profile of the writer Colm Toibin in The New…
Reinventing American exceptionalism could help rediscover our common values: Richard M. Perloff and…
CLEVELAND - Sometimes, after a period of cataclysmic national events, it helps to take stock.Last August, the nation experienced the chaotic evacuation of Afghanistan, the loss of 13 valiant American lives, and the painful reminder that we…
Feeding Minds Press Releases Children’s Book ‘Grange at Night’
A new children's book is now available for families looking for a compelling farming story to share. Barn at night, featuring lyrical poetry and vibrant watercolors, is now available from Feeding Minds Press, the publishing company of…
Trump, Republicans and White Evangelicals form a powerful trio
According to new analysis from the Pew Research Center, "evangelical" no longer means born again; it means republican. Of course, evangelicals have kissed the Republican Party since the late 1970s, but, according to the analysis, more…
6 new books on the pandemic, #MeToo and other hot topics
Why were our cities and their economies so vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic? Two Harvard economists take stock of the issues plaguing American cities (or, as they put it, the âdemonsâ that often…
Reviews | Religious beliefs and abortion laws
The Bible teaches us that in an ideal world, "mercy and truth meet, justice and peace are embraced." Instead, Texas has become the barometer of a world where justice spits on mercy. We can and must do better.Rosemary C.…
How hope, fear and misinformation drove thousands of Haitians to the US border
The United States is home to around one million Haitians, with the largest numbers concentrated in Miami, Boston and New York. But Haitian communities have flourished in Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina and California.This week, the United…
“Forgotten First:” A Look at Four – and More – NFL Pioneers | Richmond Free…
In this age of racial reckoning, it is not only fitting but meaningful that the stories of the NFL pioneers be told.
Keyshawn Johnson, the first pick in the 1996 New York Jets draft and now host of ESPN's morning show "Keyshawn,…
Newsom’s anti-Trump recall strategy offers warning for mid-term 2022
SAN LEANDRO, Calif .-- California is bathed in its foresight. "The future comes here first," Gov. Gavin Newsom said, calling his state "America's coming attraction."However, in categorically rejecting efforts to recall him from office, Mr…
Ask the author: Meredith Stabel
Meredith Stabel, PhD candidate in English and editor-in-chief of the UI Press, answers questions about her first published book, Radicals: Audacious Writings by American Women, an anthology of long-lost writings by women of the 19th…
Representative Jamie Raskin’s ‘Unthinkable’ Book Releases January 4 – CBS…
NEW YORK (AP / WJZ) - U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin from Maryland is working on a brief in which he will reflect on the siege of the Capitol on January 6 and the tragedy he suffered a week earlier when his 25-year-old son Tommy…
Craig Johnson’s personal take on upcoming events and his new book
Craig Johnson and his new book Daughter of Morning Star (Courtesy Craig Johnson)
CASPER, Wyo. - Are you a fan of the famous Wyoming author Craig johnson? He writes the Longmire series which is also a hit show on Netflix.…
Transcript of Biden’s speech after Kabul airport attack
We've lost. We have some idea, like many of you, of how the families of these brave heroes feel today. You feel like you're being sucked into a black hole in the middle of your chest. There is no way out. My heart aches for you, and I…
Book Review: ‘The Love Songs of WEB Du Bois’, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Historic Georgia Ground is where we meet "Love Songs" hero Ailey Pearl Garfield. As a young black woman in the late 20th century, Ailey feels this sense of double consciousness, not only as Du Bois imagined when it comes to race, but also…
Reasons to visit America’s premier main street
Have you ever visited a town that looked like a small town? Franklin, Tennessee, is that kind of town. The charm and friendliness of small towns is abundant and is just the beginning of why you should visit Franklin and stroll their…
Americans move to 22-year drought-stricken region
August 21, 2021"WEAT WAS the ultimate arbiter of the American West, âwrote Marc Reisner inâ Cadillac Desert, âhis book on the water there, published in 1986. Reisner thought of the…