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Review: 'The Magic Kingdom,' by Russell Banks

FICTION: An ambitious look at the promise of America through a tiny Florida Shaker community in the early 1900s.

Tribune News Service

Banned Books: Author Ashley Hope Pérez on finding humanity in the 'darkness'

Ashley Hope Pérez published Out of Darkness in 2015 to critical acclaim. The novel re-contextualized contemporary issues of race providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America.

WEKU

Editorial: Greene's sick 'joke' about Jan. 6 speaks volumes about McCarthy's cravenness

Did you hear the latest knee-slapper from Marjorie Taylor Greene? The Georgia congresswoman quipped that if she had “organized” the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, “we would have won,” and that she would have brought weapons. Greene later insisted that she was kidding — just a little joke,…

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Joe Battenfeld: Millions of disgruntled voters fleeing the Democratic and Republican rolls

The two major political parties’ long hold on America could be finally starting to slip, setting the stage for an exodus of disgruntled voters to the independent side of the ballot.

Boston Herald

‘A blow against hate and all its forms’: Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act, repealing 1996 anti-LGBT+ law

Mr Biden’s signature on the Respect for Marriage Act repeals a 1996 law banning federal recognition of same-sex marriage that he voted for as a senator, 16 years before he endorsed letting same-sex couples marry during his term as vice-president

The Independent UK

BBC The Traitors confirmed for second series following 'no-brainer' decision

The Record also revealed that the show is also going to America, and will be hosted by Alan Cumming.

Daily Record

Michael Hiltzik: Solar and wind energy are killing off fossil fuel, despite the right's best efforts

American conservatives may be trying to hold back the tide, but solar and wind power are surging worldwide, leaving coal, natural gas and oil in the dust as energy sources.

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Schools could add extra days to make up for snow closures, Ofsted chief warns

Ofsted's Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman suggested heads could bring in American-style make-up days if schools are forced to shut their doors to pupils due to extreme weather

Daily Mirror

Last Hawaiian princess dies with wife by her side at America's only royal residence

The last of a line stretching back 100 years, Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa passed away at her home ʻIolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii, US

Daily Mirror

GOP's big plan: Hold America hostage

GOP readies another round of legislative terrorism in search of spending cuts. Biden needs to fight back hard

Salon

Commentary: Congress must raise the debt ceiling now to avoid an economic calamity

America is facing an unprecedented fiscal and economic threat next year and Congress has until Jan. 3 to avoid it. Sometime in 2023, probably around June, the United States will hit the debt ceiling, which is the maximum amount the government can borrow.

Chicago Tribune

Living with Children: This approach to quirky child behaviors may sound familiar

When America’s mental health industry sees the opportunity to broaden its influence, it pounces. If said opportunity presents itself in the form of odd behavior on the part of certain children, the first thing the industry does is invent a new diagnosis, thus securing their claim to “treatment rights." In…

Tribune News Service

Sunderland singer Faye Fantarrow to fight for life in America as she battles rare brain tumour with help of Annie Lennox

Faye Fantarrow is set to travel to America to start a medical trial that could save her life

Chronicle Live

‘It’s been very dark for all of us’: film-maker Alexandra Pelosi on a family on America’s political frontline

With her father recovering from a brutal hammer attack, the director’s latest film shows her mother Nancy Pelosi resisting the January 6 insurrection

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Why does Biden want to buy Venezuelan oil again?

The fix is in. During the Thanksgiving holiday, the Biden administration announced it was quietly reversing policy and allowing limited petroleum imports from Venezuela. The Treasury Department lifted restrictions permitting a six-month deal to ease sanctions so that Chevron petroleum may buy and then ship Venezuelan crude oil to American…

Chicago Sun-Times

A Senate win for all Americans

Rev. Raphael Warnock’s win shows us that a way forward to a better America now runs through the Deep South.

The Independent UK

Will the Idaho college murders become America’s next cold case?

It’s been one month since four Idaho students were brutally murdered, and fears are growing that the case is going cold. Rachel Sharp and Josh Marcus explore a troubling trend in America’s homicide clearance rates - and what happens to the families and communities left without answers

Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: Are you worried about another American civil war? It's not imminent, but...

I don't believe the United States is on the verge of civil war.

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Trudy Rubin: The US-China conflict to watch is the Chip War — which centers on Taiwan

Most Americans are unaware that the United States is already fighting a war with China that involves Taiwan.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: How tariffs are raising the cost of Christmas presents and more

This time of year, most inflation-weary Christmas shoppers—and perhaps even the inflation-fighting Fed—would welcome an end to our government’s effort to raise the prices of the goods we buy in high volume. In this year’s third quarter, the federal government collected tariffs on imported goods putting us on track for…

Axios

Democrats show signs of life in rural America

Biden's rural performance in 2020 was a low point for Democrats.

Salon

A prayer before dying: GOP faces the end

I was a Republican for years. I can testify that GOP leaders know their party is doomed, and there's no escape

The Independent UK

Biden aims to narrow trust gap with US-Africa leaders summit

President Joe Biden is set to play host to dozens of African leaders in Washington this week as the White House looks to narrow a gaping trust gap with Africa

Tribune News Service

Mac Engel: Brittney Griner owes the United States of America because she could have been Austin Tice

FORT WORTH, Texas — Trading a person whose crime is possessing a tiny amount of hash for someone who is convicted of dealing military grade firearms, many to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, doesn’t feel fair, or right.

Salon

Challenging stereotypes of Iranian men

The assumption that Iranian men are exceptionally sexist, especially compared to American men, is not my experience

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