I will set aside my longtime distrust of unalloyed Churchill worship for a moment, and comment only on the slavering over Speaker Moses and his remarkable political skill of passing a piece of legislation that a vast majority of the House favored, and that was demonstrably popular in the country at large. Granted, he did so in the face of the Angry Children's Caucus, but his challenge to them was tepid at best. |
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It’s a fascinating, confounding, messy, sometimes frustrating, and bravely strange collection with unexpected revelations about the world’s most dominant cultural figure. |
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True crime is all around us, these days. From podcasts to television shows to movies and conventions, it's practically in the air we breathe. It's the true crime junkies' world—we're all just living in it. But why do we hunger so powerfully for these stories? Why are we willing to commit hours of our lives to them, whether they appear on the page or on the screen? In these excellent books, we’re reminded that true crime does not simply consist of a neatly constructed narrative with a criminal mastermind and heroic detectives and ideal victims. Life, and crimes, are so much messier than that. |
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Just in time for travel season. |
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For seven seasons I have worked as a commercial oysterman along the waters of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Current mapping shows that there are 4,664 acres of wild oyster beds that grow between the limits of high and low tide here. I am responsible for 4.8 of them. As storm events become more frequent, as coastal communities become more developed, and as our nation’s infrastructure continues to degrade underground, the waters where we swim and fish and where we harvest oysters will increasingly come under threat, as will the livelihoods that rely on clean water. |
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