When smart people say stupid things
The president is campaigning only in deep blue states where his presence might benefit the local Democrats; in many parts of the country, his appearance, even at an airport press conference, would...
View ArticleWhite man pathology: inside the fandom of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
Stephen Marche goes on a road trip and enters the fray at back-to-back Iowa conventionsand gets a view of US politics from the perspective of his whiteness...
View ArticleJune 29, 2015 - City Council Meeting Transcript (Filebank) (City of Palo...
(Source: City of Palo Alto, CA) 4943c6910738bb11af31c2.pdf CITY OF PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL TRANSCRIPT Special Meeting June 29, 2015 The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in the...
View ArticleFidel Castro is dead
He towered over his Caribbean island for nearly five decades, a shaggy-bearded figure in combat fatigues whose long shadow spread across Latin America and the world. According to the Associated Press,...
View ArticleBob Dylan's Nobel Prize divides Irish writers and literary critics
Anne Enright The thing about Dylan, as with Leonard Cohen, is that the words are so much better than the music - I spent years trying to hear them through the drone of his sinuses. There was also the...
View Article‘I wouldn’t have given Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize’: Irish writers react
Anne Enright The thing about Dylan, as with Leonard Cohen, is that the words are so much better than the music - I spent years trying to hear them through the drone of his sinuses. There was also the...
View ArticleBob Dylan's Nobel Prize divides Irish writers and literary critics: updated
Anne Enright The thing about Dylan, as with Leonard Cohen, is that the words are so much better than the music - I spent years trying to hear them through the drone of his sinuses. There was also the...
View ArticleThe Stacks: How Peter Bogdanovich Shot 'The Last Picture Show'
The director hauled a film crew to Larry McMurtry's home town of Archer City, Texas. Grover Lewis tagged along and wrote one of the best stories about moviemaking ever written. When Francis Ford...
View ArticleManchester United 2-2 Liverpool: the Class of 92, Spice Boys and Cantona’s...
It was a time when Oasis and Blur were making Britannia cool and United’s kids were beginning to bloom. The Spice Boys found the Liverpool groove but, back in October 1995, two sets of talented players...
View Article'UK was groomed’: Irish writers throw book at Brexit
In an EU referendum campaign marked by mendacity, some of the pithiest truths have been uttered by writers. “If your head says Remain but your heart says Leave, remember that one is specifically...
View ArticleUTSA centennial honors renowned, late Congress Henry B. Gonzalez (UTSA - The...
(Source: UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio) Civic leaders honor renowned public figure Henry B. Gonzalez 05.04.16 Photo credit: Camille Garcia, Rivard Report On May 3, 2016, civic leaders,...
View ArticleIs America Any Safer?
Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people—and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil...
View ArticlePrivate Camelot
From the first, Jackie had declined to meld into the overpowering Kennedy clan, where “Hey, kiddo” was a standard greeting. Jack Kennedy had married late, at age 36, and his family worried that “he’d...
View ArticleEvery episode of Gilmore Girls, ranked
Every episode of Gilmore Girls has a grace note. Every episode, even the very worst, has some weird, quirky jewel of a moment that makes the whole thing worth watching — even something as small as Rory...
View ArticleMy 50 favourite UK restaurants: critic Marina O'Loughlin's choice
The Guardian’s restaurant critic picks her 50 favourite restaurants in the UK, from a seaside pub in Kent that serves some of the best food on the planet to a Glasgow old-timer that’s a city...
View ArticleWho's really voting for Trump: Portraits beyond the polls
Who are Donald Trump’s supporters? That’s the question every pollster, pundit and politico has been asking ever since the Manhattan mogul launched his candidacy, ascended to the top of the polls and...
View ArticleBobby Fisher Was a Genius and a Jerk
Days before he was due in Iceland for the world chess championship in 1972, Fischer was still concocting reasons not to go. Brad Darrach captured every moment of the madness. The opening section of The...
View ArticleRead the Full Transcript of the Tenth Republican Debate in Texas
Five Republican presidential candidates faced off Thursday night in Houston for the tenth GOP debate. Real estate mogul Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Gov. John...
View ArticleMay 04, 2015 - City Council Meeting Minutes (Filebank) (City of Palo Alto, CA)
(Source: City of Palo Alto, CA) d84882b2d4c493cd5e3ab9.pdf CITY OF PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES Special Meeting May 4, 2015 The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in the Community...
View Article‘UK was groomed’: Irish writers throw book at Brexit
In an EU referendum campaign marked by mendacity, some of the pithiest truths have been uttered by writers. “If your head says Remain but your heart says Leave, remember that one is specifically...
View Article“Trump Land”
In the Trump Story Project, we’re presenting a series of short stories from contemporary writers, compiled by Ben H. Winters, imagining America’s future under President Donald Trump. Read Ben Winters’...
View ArticleThe President’s news conference Transcripts, December 17, 2015 (The President...
(Source: The President of Russia) Television channel Public Television of Russia (OTR) and its site (http://www.otr-online.ru/online/) provided live sign language interpretation of the news conference....
View ArticleKRISTINE
It’s autumn of 2010 and I’m standing in the exact spot where ten-year-old Kristine Mihelich was found dead as fucking winter in 1977, her newly plum-colored face a muted beacon in the freshly fallen...
View ArticleThe aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog
Once known more for its stunts than its beers, the ‘punk’ Scottish brewer is now the UK’s fastest-growing drinks company. You have a problem with that?...
View ArticleThe Stacks: William Styron was Lit’s Big Game Hunter
A white southerner by birth, Styron scorned the label of regional author—the world was his territory and the bigger the subject the better, from American slavery to the Holocaust. When Philip Caputo...
View Article“Difference,” American-Style: Of High-Horse Riders and Low-Hanging Fruit
Annals of Parliamentary Cretinism: 4 This has been in the works since the get-go. HRC faces a tight race in what ought to be a walkover because she is a lousy candidate and a terrible campaigner, and...
View ArticleSeptember 21, 2015 - City Council Meeting Transcript (Filebank) (City of Palo...
(Source: City of Palo Alto, CA) b6a9dd9e-5145-428e-9002-218c5d8cf863.pdf CITY OF PALO ALTO CITY COUNCIL TRANSCRIPT Regular Meeting September 21, 2015 The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on...
View ArticleWhy Not Kasich! Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and My Week on the Trail with the GOP
There's something in the air in New Hampshire. It just ain’t civility, competence and experience. They’re assholes, really, New Hampshire primary voters. At Gilchrist Metal Fabricating’s grimy factory...
View ArticlePrimary Colors: the Candidates Invade New Hampshire
Faced with fourteen Republican potential nominees for president in 2016 and three on the Democratic side, I did what any sensible person would not do: I borrowed my sister’s car, stayed with a friend...
View ArticleOscars 2015 - live! The full ceremony and every award
Join us for full coverage of this year’s Academy Awards! We kick off on the red carpet at 2pm PT, 5pm ET and 10pm GMT, then move into the Dolby Theatre for the ceremony itself from 5pm PT, 8pm ET and...
View ArticleThings That Can and Cannot Be Said
This post originally appeared as a four-part series at Outlook India. __________ Part I: Things That Can And Cannot Be Said John Cusack __________ Every nation-state tends towards the imperial--that is...
View ArticleThe Bravery To Be Vulnerable
An experiment in #100DaysofVulnerability Six years ago, I went through a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation course. It was easily, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Not the silence mind you....
View ArticleUnearthed relics haunt a town
In the high country of the Navajo reservation, a family walked through the pinyon pines, combing the earth for the remnants of a vanished civilization. Their breath steamed in the morning air. Dr....
View ArticleTHURSDAY: Naomi Klein on her New Book, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism...
Tune in Thursday when award-winning journalist and author, Naomi Klein, joins us for the hour to discuss her new book which was released this week, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate....
View ArticleNaomi Klein: "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" (Book...
Note: On Thursday award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein joined us for the hour to discuss her new book, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate." This kicked off Democracy Now!...
View Article2015’s Magnificent 7: People Who Championed, Changed & Challenged Us
December 24 2015, 2:27 PM ET Share this article: 2015 was a year of many things. Luckily, “inspiring” was one of them. Amid the injustices, tragedies and foolery that crowded our news headlines and...
View ArticleOscars 2015: The red carpet, ceremony and reaction as it happened
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View ArticleEvery 25 Seconds
Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View ArticleSpringfield of Dreams: 150 Best 'Simpsons' Episodes
When FXX announced a complete Simpsons marathon — as in airing all 552 episodes consecutively, from August 21st through Labor Day — there was much rejoicing among those of us who have spent nearly as...
View ArticleChampions and Orphans: The 1968 Fresno City College-College of the Sequoias...
Here’s the story. College of the Sequoias football Coach Al Baldock wanted to beat Fresno City College Coach Clare Slaughter in 1968. Instead, Slaughter – blessed with some of the finest talent in the...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
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