Новости за 12.05.2024

Cartoon by Clay Bennett.

Not Donald Trump. Not Ted Cruz. But a little known Republican from West Texas ranks as the top recipient of fossil fuel money.

He's a criminal defendant, a businessman, and a politician. But to his most loyal supporters, Donald Trump will always be Mr. President. As for the guy currently serving in the White House, they call him Biden, or maybe just Joe.

It was déjà vu all over again for me on April 30, when the NYPD removed pro-Palestinian protesters sitting in at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall. That brought back memories of April 30, 1968, when the NYPD forcibly broke up sit-ins at Hamilton Hall and other campus buildings by students protesting plans to build a de facto segregated gym on public parkland. The students were also protesting the Vietnam War by demanding that Columbia cut ties with the Institute for Defense Analysis, a consortium... Читать дальше...

It’s a Mother’s Day tradition here on Black Music Sunday to celebrate mothers and other nurturing folks with music from multiple genres. This Mother’s Day installment will be no different. Our fourth annual maternal music exploration will include both jazz and blues tunes about mothers—loving them, treasuring their advice to us, and sadly, how it feels when we lose them.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet

Cartoon by Pedro Molina.

Dominoes has a new promotion that rewards customers for tipping. For every $3 that customers put into a tip, they’ll get $3 off a future order. The ad campaign for this promotion is meant to play off the big attention given to stories about “tipping fatigue” and so-called “guilt tipping.”