.gr_custom_container_1413175380 { /* customize your Goodreads widget container here*/ border: 1px solid gray; border-radius:10px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; width: 275px } .gr_custom_header_1413175380 { /* customize your Goodreads header here*/ border-bottom: 1px solid gray; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; font-size: 90% } .gr_custom_each_container_1413175380 { /* customize each individual book container here */ width: 100%; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; } .gr_custom_book_container_1413175380 { /* customize your book covers here */ overflow: hidden; height: 100px; float: left; margin-right: 4px; width: 39px; } .gr_custom_author_1413175380 { /* customize your author names here */ font-size: 14px; } .gr_custom_tags_1413175380 { /* customize your tags here */ font-size: 10px; color: gray; } .gr_custom_rating_1413175380 { /* customize your rating stars here */ float: right; } Adam's bookshelf: currently-reading The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist Share book reviews and ratings with Adam, and even join a book club on Goodreads. .gr_custom_container_1413175368 { /* customize your Goodreads widget container here*/ border: 1px solid gray; border-radius:10px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 5px; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; width: 275px } .gr_custom_header_1413175368 { /* customize your Goodreads header here*/ border-bottom: 1px solid gray; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; font-size: 90% } .gr_custom_each_container_1413175368 { /* customize each individual book container here */ width: 100%; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; } .gr_custom_book_container_1413175368 { /* customize your book covers here */ overflow: hidden; height: 60px; float: left; margin-right: 4px; width: 39px; } .gr_custom_author_1413175368 { /* customize your author names here */ font-size: 14px; } .gr_custom_tags_1413175368 { /* customize your tags here */ font-size: 10px; color: gray; } .gr_custom_rating_1413175368 { /* customize your rating stars here */ float: right; } Adam's bookshelf: read The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov Women at Church: Magnifying LDS Women’s Local Impact by Neylan McBaine On Dissent: Its Meaning in America by Ronald K.L. Collins David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Gregory A. Prince Share book reviews and ratings with Adam, and even join a book club on Goodreads.
Dear Brother Hawkins, I listened in shock to your conversation with Elna Baker on the recent episode of This American Life. And look, I get it. You're between a rock and a hard place. You serve an institution that neither apologizes nor seeks apologies--a statement that of all the theological…
I'm getting tired of the way some Mormons throw around the "wheat and the tares" analogy to dismiss anyone who disagrees with them. A culture of judgmentalism has consequences, and they're not good.
On August 25 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò published an eleven-page letter in which he accused Pope Francis of ignoring and covering up evidence of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and called for his resignation. It was a declaration of civil war by the church’s conservative wing. Viganò is a former apostolic nuncio to the US, a prominent member of the Roman Curia—the central governing body of the Holy See—and one of the most skilled practitioners of brass-knuckle Vatican power politics. He was the central figure in the 2012 scandal that involved documents leaked by Pope Benedict XVI’s personal butler, including letters Viganò wrote about corruption in Vatican finances, and that contributed to Benedict’s startling decision to abdicate the following year. Angry at not having been made a cardinal and alarmed by Francis’s supposedly liberal tendencies, Viganò seems determined to take out the pope.
The opioid epidemic is usually seen as a supply problem. If we can interdict the supply of prescription opioids, the thinking goes, we can stanch the epidemic. But that is unlikely to work for two reasons. First, this is no longer mainly an epidemic of prescription drugs but of street drugs. And second, it creates an onerous obstacle for doctors and outpatients who require pain treatment.
It is impossible to understand American politics of the past half-century without taking abortion into account. The Brett Kavanaugh charade most recently, the machinations of the Republican Party more generally, and the infectious fundamentalism creeping into everyday life: all begin with abortion. Other issues may have been as divisive—civil rights comes to mind—but none has been as definitional. These days, the litmus test for Republicans running for political office or nominated to the judiciary is opposition to abortion. On the Democratic side, it is almost equally crucial to be pro-choice. Yet as the Netflix documentary Reversing Roe ably shows, this was not always the case.
Jill Lepore's new history of America comes at a time when many readers will have a nagging sense of living through a historical moment themselves, whatever that means (the details somehow “organic to the period” yet still lost to us). It also arrives as the raw materials of history seem to be losing their hold. “The era of the fact,” Lepore wrote in The New Yorker two years ago, “is coming to an end.”
Whatever secret reservations Mitch McConnell and other traditional Republican leaders have about Trump’s character, governing style, and possible criminality, they openly rejoice in the payoff they have received from their alliance with him and his base: huge tax cuts for the wealthy, financial and environmental deregulation, the nominations of two conservative Supreme Court justices (so far) and a host of other conservative judicial appointments, and a significant reduction in government-sponsored health care (though not yet the total abolition of Obamacare they hope for). Like Hitler’s conservative allies, McConnell and the Republicans have prided themselves on the early returns on their investment in Trump.
Family separations, multibillion-dollar border-wall schemes, unleashed ICE officers —the Trump presidency has taught the Democrats what they stand against. Now they have to figure out what they stand for.
Profit-sharing plans for rank-and-file employees are vanishing as corporate America has adopted a new approach toward who reaps a healthy company’s gains.
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