I was, apparently, late to learn to read as a child, a fact that seems hilarious to me in retrospect. I held off, determined to keep up the ritual of bedtime reading with my parents, until a neighbor girl demonstrated that shed mastered this new skill, and th…
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Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who conjured a black girl longing for blue eyes, a slave mother who kills her child to save her from bondage and other indelible characters who helped transfigure a literary canon long closed to African American…
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Late Monday afternoon, I spoke with a colleague about the challenge of summarizing President Trumps response to the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. On the one hand, Trump said in a speech that our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supr…
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To understand the roots of the white rage that President Trump taps into with unerring and unconscionable precision, it helps to look at a recent news story from South Africa. That countrys history, of course, exhibits the most extreme form of white power. T…
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As lawmakers across the country spar over how to prevent mass shootings, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Tuesday announced proposals to combat gun violence two days after the attack that killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio, and shocked a country grieving another …
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The FBI said Tuesday it had launched a domestic terrorism investigation into the shooting rampage last week at a Gilroy, Calif., food festival, during which a 19-year-old killed three people and injured more than a dozen others. This determination came after…
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In the days after a gunman killed 51 people in March at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, analysts warned the attack could become a rallying point for extremists. It was a high-casualty attack, intended to be imitated by others, live-streamed on soci…
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Image copyrightBrent Walker When recovering meth addict Brent Walker posted before-and-after photos of him and his wife on Facebook, he hoped to inspire change in old friends. But when, 10 days later, they had been shared almost 200,000 times. Brent, of Ten…
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Image copyrightEPAImage caption Governor Newsom signed the law last week US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are suing California over recent legislation requiring presidential candidates to file tax returns in order to stand in primaries. …
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No-deal Brexit: How might it affect the EU?
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