Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Reading archive 2021-09-01

‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ shows there are limits to how much we can (or should) rehab ’90s tabloid figures - "Paula’s plight as an unassuming pawn who’s debased by even the right-wing press for her naivete in going to Clinton’s hotel room during his governorship (where he allegedly asked her for oral sex) is hard to square with the real-life Jones, who showed up at a presidential debate in 2016 in support of Donald Trump."

Why You Should Do Your Spring Planting in the Fall: Conventional wisdom says you should do the same tasks in the same order every year. The director of horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park has a better idea.

Four conservative radio talk-show hosts bashed coronavirus vaccines. Then they got sick. - "'The vaccine isn’t the problem. Talk radio is,' said Jerry Del Colliano, a professor at New York University and publisher and editor of Inside Music Media, which covers the radio industry. Radio companies, he said, 'are risking the health of their audiences even as anti-vaxxer bloviators continue to die.'

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"Even as he was receiving state-of-the-art care for cancer last year, Limbaugh maintained a skeptical, conspiratorial pose, falsely dismissing the then-emerging coronavirus as 'the common cold' and saying, without evidence, that it was being 'weaponized' to attack President Donald Trump."

Opinion: I was a combat interpreter in Afghanistan, where cultural illiteracy led to U.S. failure

Oklahoma congressman threatened embassy staff as he tried to enter Afghanistan, U.S. officials say

A 9/11 survivor wanted nothing to do with ‘Come From Away.’ Now she’s seen it a dozen times.

Opinion: Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like

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