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If You're Looking for Book Recommendations From Bill Gates, Here They Are
The Microsoft co-founder endorsed books by Tayari Jones, Jill Lepore, and Vaclav Smil
Carlos Lozada
So @BillGates plans on finally reading Infinite Jest next year...
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Biden signals to aides that he would serve only a single term
Advisers weigh the merits of a one-term pledge by the 77-year-old former vice president.
Carlos Lozada
The presumption that a president would get to hand-pick a successor is... presumptuous.
20h
Triggered by Donald Trump Jr.
The new book by the president’s son should be far more interesting than it actually is.
There’s A Persistent Idea That Pete Buttigieg Ignored Black South Bend. It’s Not True.
“I had access to Pete not because I searched it out, but because he opened the door," one neighborhood activist said.
Paul A. Volcker, Fed chairman who curbed inflation by raising interest rates, dies at 92 — The Washington Post
He helped take U.S. currency off the gold standard and curbed inflation with drastically high interest rates.
Carlos Lozada
“The only financial innovation of recent decades that really improved Americans’ lives, Mr. Volcker once said, was the automated teller machine.”
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Up First: Friday, December 6th, 2019 on Apple Podcasts
Show Up First, Ep Friday, December 6th, 2019 - Dec 6, 2019
Carlos Lozada
Note the phrasing by @cgrisales on @UpFirst, when describing congressional GOP on impeachment: “They are remaining loyal to their defense of the president.” Not just loyalty to Trump, but the compulsion to stick to your long-time defense
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Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019
The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.
Tufts will scour Sackler name from its medical campus
An independent review found evidence that Purdue was “successful in exercising influence, whether directly or indirectly,” in a few instances at Tufts.
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Carlos Lozada
A Tufts med school committee twice opted not to select DREAMLAND by @samquinones7 (a book on the opioid crisis) as the book all incoming med students would read “due, in significant part, to the existence of the donor relationship with the Sacklers."
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PulitzerPrizes
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Carlos Lozada
The @PulitzerPrizes Board announces a new Audio Reporting category for the 2020 prizes: pulitzer.org/news/pulitzer-…
And yes -- the announcement also comes in audio form: soundcloud.com/user-640013545
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What the C.I.A.’s Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured
Drawings done in captivity by the first prisoner known to undergo “enhanced interrogation” portray his account of what happened to him in vivid and disturbing ways.
How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?
The Washington Post just wants you to like its TikToks.
Dissecting Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘Supreme Ambition’
In her impressively reported new account, Ruth Marcus unpacks the political maneuvering behind the justice’s ascent to the Supreme Court.
JED Institute // Gallivan Journalism Program // University of Notre Dame
Information about The Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)
Researchers in Germany have been working on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae since the 1890s. They hope to finish in 2050, but that might be optimistic.
Carlos Lozada
Gratulor tibi! Check out @Annalisa_Quinn with this cool page one story in the Sunday NYT: nytimes.com/2019/11/30/art… pic.twitter.com/C4E222g8xS
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How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled
Ms. Harris is the only 2020 Democrat who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates. She has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and tactics to little effect and has a staff torn into factions.
Carlos Lozada
“There are also generational fissures. One adviser said the fixation that some younger staffers have with liberals on Twitter distorted their view of what issues and moments truly mattered.”
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The Book Review: 10 Best Books of 2019 on Apple Podcasts
Show The Book Review, Ep 10 Best Books of 2019 - Nov 26, 2019
Carlos Lozada
Listening to the NYTBR podcast in the kitchen this morning when my 6th grader comes in and asks, “that’s the New York Times Book Review podcast, right? I know because they all giggle randomly and because they talk the way prestigious people talk on TV.”
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Newsday/David Laventhol Visiting Professorship (Open Rank)
The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University invites applications for a full-time, visiting professor (rank to be determined) for one semester (fall or spring term) during the 2020-2021 academic year, which may be renewable during the...