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Rap Artist Sister Souljah Responds to Criticism from Candidate Bill Clinton, June 16, 1992. 

Margaret Bourke-White, "At the Time of the Louisville Flood," 1937

Sometimes older patterns return so quickly as to resemble time travel.  One leading example in the last few months is high unemployment and its consequences.  The official rate of unemployment by the end of 2019 was 3.5%, but it zoomed upward in the winter of 2020 and by April it was 14.7%.  The last time it was that high was 1940.  May was a little better, at 13.3%, but the last time the unemployment rate was that high was 1941. Читать дальше...

In the aftermath of nationwide protests unlike any seen in a generation, an extraordinary window of opportunity may be opening to address some fundamental problems in our country. People are understandably focused on ideas to bring about better policing. Health care and economic inequality will surely return to the agenda as we proceed into the party conventions and fall election season. But with a reform movement this large underway, we should focus new attention on the root causes of political division and anger at our broken system. Читать дальше...

You are now seeing why.  Whether Americans are aware of it or not, history education informs the values and beliefs we hold today.  As a history educator, co-chair of the New England History Teachers Association, and the editor of The New England Journal of History, I am deeply invested in history education. The information that you studied in history class as children or teenagers shaped your understanding of human dynamics and your ability to imagine the situations of other human beings.  Your... Читать дальше...

MGM Camera Crew at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 1946

It took eighteen months after the first atomic bomb was dropped over the city of Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, for Hollywood to produce a motion picture about the birth of the nuclear age. The movie studio almost never got that far. Over many months, MGM faced immense pressure for revisions--some leading to outright falsifications--from the director of the Manhattan Project, Gen. Leslie R. Groves, and from the White House, including President Harry S. Читать дальше...

Photo by Author, 2020

The gates to the park that surrounds New York’s City Hall are locked. Visible through the iron bars are the colors green, from the lush vegetation, and blue, from the uniforms of the New York Police Department. Officers look out at crowds of protesters demonstrating and camping with colorful umbrellas to protect them from rain and sun, an array of rainbow-hued signs and banners, and portraits of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Activists have created this “Abolition... Читать дальше...

Cover Detail, Negro Traveler's Green Book, 1956

In New York harbor, the famous inscription at the Statue of Liberty beckons to America those who are “yearning to breathe free.” The message resonates with one of this nation’s founding myths: that bountiful American nature would provide new life for all. 

In reality, over time American nature has been retrofitted with an infrastructure of racism, one that gives some people open access to land, clean water, and good air while... Читать дальше...

Jefferson Davis Monument, Richmond VA. Photo Wikimedia Commons, Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Valtteri Bottas retains a six-point lead in the championship over team mate Lewis Hamilton after the Styrian Grand Prix.

It's a great show

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President Trump told The Washington Post that he authorized a 2018 cyberattack on the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA), the first time he’s acknowledged doing so. In an interview with Post columnist Marc Thiessen, Trump confirmed that the attack— which the Post reported on last year— started on the day of the 2018 midterm and was successful in disrupting a disinformation campaign by Russia that was meant to raise doubt about the midterm results.

Formula 1's first Styrian Grand Prix saw Lewis Hamilton dominate, beating Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and Red Bull's Max Verstappen. But it was an awful day for Ferrari

Liverpool have already hinted that they won't be busy in the summer transfer window.

In Trump's America, there's such a thing as a 'COVID Party.' This San Antonio man paid a steep price for following Trump's lead.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Sunday said people who care about the rule of law should be "nauseated" by President Trump's decision, announced late Friday, to commute the sentence of longtime friend and confidante Roger Stone.

1. UPDATE 1-580,000 Hong Kongers cast 'protest' vote against new security laws  Reuters
2. 'My civil right': Hong Kong citizens vote in unofficial pro-democracy poll  Guardian News
3. Hong Kong: Opposition primaries draw thousands despite security law fears  BBC News
4. U.S. weighs limited options to deal with China over Hong Kong: WSJ  Reuters
5. 600,000 vote in Hong Kong opposition primary despite fears of new security law  CNN
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07/12/2020 News & Commentary - Korea

News & commentary by Dave Maxwell. Edited and published by Riley Murray.

The prime minister’s chief adviser has declined to explain the reason for the payments to Faculty, made in instalments over two years, and the firm itself is also remaining tight-lipped on the question.

Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju will hold discussions with sports ministers of all states and union territories from July 14 to figure a way forward as sporting activities begin to resume amid the gradual lifting of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Pittsburgh, a sister city to Wuhan, China, saw only modest cases for months. In the last two weeks, cases are suddenly soaring.

After CBS 2 Report, More Chicagoans Say They Haven’t Been Getting Mail; Union President Says ‘Chicago Post Office Is Failing’ Retired Postal Worker Sentenced to Over 8 Years in Prison for Bribery Scheme West Virginia: pro-Trump mail carrier admits to attempted election fraud Residents of Chicago Neighborhood Say They’ve Gotten No Mail For Weeks, Are […]

ARSENAL head into a crunch North London derby with Tottenham with everything still to play for. Mikel Arteta’s side have forced their way back into the European picture with three wins in four matches, while Spurs can leapfrog their big rivals with a victory today. Start time: 4.30pm BST TV/Live stream: Sky Sports Premier League, […]

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace ==== Paul Fort The Complaint of the Soldiers Translated by John Strong Newberry When they were come back from the wars their heads were seamed with bleeding scars, their hearts betwixt clenched teeth they gripped, in rivulets their blood had […]