Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Culture
06/20/2022
Happy Juneteenth (observed)
Juneteenth is the newest celebration on the official calendar of federal holidays, a move that I liked for the symbolism of the day but also because creating more holidays in general is a good idea.
06/17/2022
Opinion: Juneteenth, as much as the Fourth of July, is America’s true birthday
Juneteenth 2022, which the nation officially celebrates Monday, is unfolding against extraordinary twin backdrops: the ongoing hearings of the House select committee on January 6 and the continuing legislative efforts to halt or disrupt the teaching of the very history that Juneteenth -- a day that marks the end of racial slavery in the United States -- commemorates.
06/17/2022
Opinion: Sometimes ‘Proper’ Speech Isn’t Correct Speech
My eldest daughter is in elementary school, and I recently started noticing that she was regularly enunciating “going to” and “want to,” no longer saying “gonna” or “wanna,” as many people do in casual speech.
05/18/2022
Older people using TikTok to defy ageist stereotypes, research finds
There are an increasing number of accounts belonging to users aged 60 and older with millions of followers.
05/15/2022
In Austria, the Government Pays to Repair Your Stuff
Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: To the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the decades and even the two rescue dogs that follow him devotedly around R.U.S.Z., the repair and service center he founded in Vienna in 1998.
05/18/2022
Ringling Circus Is Returning. Lions, Tigers and Dumbo Are Not.
Shuttered since 2017, Ringling Brothers will bring back its circus in 2023, but this time there will be no animal acts.
05/11/2022
Google Translate adds 24 new languages, including its first indigenous languages of the Americas
In addition to improving Google Assistant’s ability to communicate with users in a more natural way, Google today announced improvements to its Google Translate service.
04/19/2022
Opinion: The Right Likes Book Bans. That Fuels the Left’s Cancel Culture.
Growing up in the 1970s, one got a good snootful of what today might be wrongly described as critical race theory.
04/15/2022
New York Public Library makes banned books available for free
In response to the more than 1,500 books challenged to be removed from libraries in the last year, the New York Public Library launched an effort to make some banned books available for everyone — for free.
04/08/2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Has an ‘African’ Name. I Wish We Knew More About It.
In March, The Times’s Erica L. Green reported that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s parents chose her name from a list “sent by an aunt who was serving in the Peace Corps in West Africa.”
04/02/2022
Native American tribe gets its land back after being displaced nearly 400 years ago
The Rappahannock Tribe, a Native Tribe in Virginia, has reacquired 465 acres of sacred land at Fones Cliff.
03/28/2022