Another side of Samuel BeckettThe Guardian - Robert McCrum“I only had a minute.” Jane Bown, the Observer’s greatest postwar photographer, used to tell the story of the day she was sent to the Royal Court theatre to photograph Samuel Beckett, acclaimed author
Joseph Maguire A Guide to Everyone Involved in the Big Trump Whistleblower Storyslate.com - Molly Olmstead Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, during a Senate hearing in July. Marcus Tappan/Getty ImagesThe Washington Post reported …
trump news update Whistleblower complaint about President Trump involves Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matterThe Washington Post - By Ellen Nakashima, Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Carol D. LeonnigA whistleblower complaint about President Trump made by an intelligence official centers on Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter, which has set off a struggle between Congress and
Opinion ‘Urgent Concern’ About the PresidentThe New York Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARDIt’s not every day that a whistle-blower in the intelligence community files a complaint about the president of the United States. But it seems to have happened last month, when an unidentified intelligence
Birds Birds Are Vanishing From North AmericaThe New York Times - By CARL ZIMMERThe number of birds in the United States and Canada has fallen by 29 percent since 1970, scientists reported on Thursday. There are 2.9 billion fewer birds taking wing now than there were 50 years ago.
Barack Obama He’s the President Democratic Voters Don’t Want to Hear CriticizedThe New York Times - By ALEXANDER BURNSIn some of the tensest moments of the 2020 debates, a viewer might have concluded that Democrats were poised for a large-scale clash over the legacy of President Barack Obama. There have been heated arguments
Birds North America has lost 3 billion birds in 50 yearsThe Washington Post - By Karin BrulliardSlowly, steadily and almost imperceptibly, North America’s bird population is dwindling. The sparrows and finches that visit backyard feeders number fewer each year. The flutelike song of the western —
Technology Ady Barkan Won’t Let Dying Stop His ActivismThe New York Times - Tim ArangoSANTA BARBARA, Calif. — First there was the viral video from an airplane, where he confronted former Senator Jeff Flake about the Republican tax bill. Then he was arrested, in his wheelchair, in the rotunda
News (South Africa) Whistle-Blower Complaint Sets Off a Battle Involving TrumpThe New York Times - Julian E. Barnes, Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt and Matthew RosenbergWASHINGTON — A potentially explosive complaint by a whistle-blower in the intelligence community said to involve President Trump emerged on Thursday as the latest front in a continuing oversight dispute
Birds US and Canada have lost more than one in four birds since 1970The Guardian - Emily Holden in WashingtonThe US and Canada have lost more than one in four birds – a total of three billion – since 1970, culminating in what scientists who published a new study are calling a “widespread ecological crisis”. observed
The Arts Ann Patchett Will Eventually Discuss Her BookThe New York Times - By SARAH LYALLNASHVILLE — Although the purpose of this conversation is to promote her new novel, “The Dutch House,” Ann Patchett is in no great hurry to talk about herself. “I think this book could really save the she
The Theatre The 10 best plays about politicsThe Guardian - Michael BillingtonWhose side is Shakespeare on? As always, it is difficult to tell. Coriolanus is an arrogant military patrician who proves indispensable to the state. The people’s tribunes have a legitimate grievance a
John Locke Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas'The Guardian - Alison FloodA “once in a generation” discovery of a centuries-old manuscript by John Locke shows the great English philosopher making his earliest arguments for religious toleration, with the scholar who unearthed
World News Britain’s Supreme Court Is Thrust Into Center of Brexit DebateThe New York Times - Mark LandlerLONDON — The impassioned speeches and howls of dissent from the backbenches, the midnight votes and archaic rituals of Parliament gave way this week to a quieter drama in Britain, as the anguished debate
World News 1894: Germany Arrests Russian Official Accused of SpyingThe New York Times - The International Herald Tribune[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] BERLIN, Sept. 17 — I have received a number of details on the alleged arrest of the Russian Naval Attaché, M. de Dubassoff, while making plans of the fortifications at
travel news 36 Hours in AlbuquerqueThe New York Times - Elaine GlusacAny conversation about travel to New Mexico seems to start with Santa Fe, the tourist-magnet about 60 miles up the road from Albuquerque, the state’s largest city. But Duke City (so called for its namesake,
Saudi Arabia We’re Not the Saudis’ MercenariesThe New York TimesRobert Gates, the former defense secretary, once scoffed that Saudi Arabia “wants to fight the Iranians to the last American.” The danger is that we slip toward that nightmare. Secretary of State Mike
Opinion The Trump Doctrine, RevealedThe New York Times - By BRET STEPHENSThomas Jefferson warned against entangling alliances. John F. Kennedy was ready to pay any price and bear any burden. Teddy Roosevelt advised us to speak softly and carry a big stick. And then there’s
The Theatre For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’The New York Times - By BEN BRANTLEYSpeaking of his storied life in the theater from a high, airy flat near the Bois de Boulogne, in the dead silence of Paris in August, this 94-year-old, British-born, endlessly itinerant director stretches
Media Industry John Humphrys' highs and lows as he prepares to exit TodayThe Guardian - Mattha Busby and Frances PerraudinThe veteran, who is to leave the programme on Radio 4, has had a memorable broadcasting career John Humphrys is expected to bow out from presenting the flagship Radio 4 Today programme this week after
Gloucester Overlooked No More: Elizabeth A. Gloucester, ‘Richest’ Black Woman and Ally of John BrownThe New York TimesOverlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. With a fortune built largely from operating boarding homes in Brooklyn and beyond,
Liberal ViewTrump’s communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief andThe Washington Post - By Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, Shane HarrisThe whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former
Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s election results could be the glimmer of dawn after a nightmareThe Washington Post - By Gershom GorenbergYou wake after a string of nightmares. There’s darkness in the window, then a glimmer at the bottom of the frame. It could be truck lights passing on a highway somewhere in the night. It could be dawn.
Corey Lewandowski It was chaos, and then a real lawyer showed upThe Washington Post - By Jennifer RubinCorey Lewandowski sneered and dodged and raised phony privileges when questioned by members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. He did, however, make a fatal error (fatal to President Trump, is)
travel news 10 Hotel Tips No One Taught YouThe New York Times - By GEOFFREY MORRISONI’ve lost count how many hotels I’ve stayed in. Hundreds, for sure, and on every continent except Antarctica. From beach-side resorts in St. Kitts to a grand, soaring high-rise in Tokyo, to a castle-adjacent
World News War Made Her a Refugee. Now She’s ‘Home,’ in Amsterdam’s Counterculture.The New York Times - Alia MalekThis is the second dispatch from a project following a family of five who fled Syria in 2015 and are now rebuilding their lives spread across four European cities. Read more about the project here. In
Nothing Was ThereStonehenge 14 Lesser-Known Ancient Sites Worth Building a Trip AroundAtlas Obscura - Eric Grundhauser
Nothing Was TherePolitics Trump is seriously, frighteningly unstable – the world is in dangerThe Guardian - Robert Reich
Nothing Was ThereBooks The Europeans by Orlando Figes review – the importance of a shared cultureThe Guardian - William Boyd
Nothing Was ThereBooks Samantha Power: ‘To fall flat in such a public way and to have no job ... I was a wandering person’The Guardian - Julian Borger
Nothing Was ThereWorld News Out of the jungle and into a death trap: the fate of Malaysia’s last nomadic peopleThe Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Kuala Koh
Nothing Was ThereBusiness (UK) Where are they now? Big shops that founded the FTSE 100 with M&SThe Guardian - Sarah Butler
Nothing Was ThereLifestyle (UK) Joining the dots: the tiny Rye cottage with spot-on paintworkThe Guardian - Nell Card
Nothing Was ThereOpinion Here are 14 reasons I’ll vote for any Democrat over TrumpThe Washington Post - By Max Boot
Nothing Was TherePlay buttonHBO 15 New Shows You Should Be Watching This FallEsquire - By Justin Kirkland
Nothing Was ThereUnited Kingdom The sheer scale of the crisis facing Britain’s decrepit constitution has been laid bareThe Guardian - Will Hutton
Nothing Was ThereBoris Johnson Worst Hot Take of the Week: The Queen Actually Letting Boris Suspend ParliamentVICE - NEO
Nothing Was ThereSadiq Khan Rise of Donald Trump is ‘obscuring lessons of the second world war’, says Sadiq KhanThe Guardian - Toby Helm Observer political editor
Nothing Was ThereU.S. Politics Trump blames companies impacted by his trade warPOLITICO - By EVAN SEMONES
Nothing Was ThereScience Why the smartest people can make the dumbest mistakesPopular Science - By David Robson
Nothing Was There Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 yearsThe Guardian - Dalya Alberge
Nothing Was ThereToni Morrison The Books Briefing: What Toni Morrison SawThe Atlantic - Rosa Inocencio Smith
Nothing Was There Books interview with Brendan Simms: “Hitler didn’t see Germany’s main enemy as Soviet communism, but Anglo-American capitalism”historyextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin
Nothing Was ThereSculpture Mesoamerican Sculptures Reveal Early Knowledge of Magnetismsmithsonianmag.com - Joshua Rapp Learn
Nothing Was ThereGenes Why we like what we like: A scientist’s surprising findingsNational Geographic - Bill Sullivan
Nothing Was There Boris Johnson: the clown is crowned as the country burns in hellThe Guardian - Hannah Jane Parkinson
Nothing Was There The Story of 8 Unforgettable Words About Apollo 11The New York Times - By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Nothing Was There Trump Furious That Mar-a-Lago Is Left with No Employees After ICE RaidThe New Yorker - Andy Borowitz
Nothing Was There Arthur Brooks on why we hate our political enemies — and how to stoppbs.org - www.pbs.org
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