Professor Ashley Hope Pérez's book Out of Darkness explores school segregation in 20th century Texas through a fictional love story between a young African-American boy and a Mexican-American girl. But the YA novel has been banned in a number of places and effectively pulled out of several school libraries. In today's episode, the author tells NPR's Rob Schmitz how sexual content is used as a scapegoat to target books addressing race, gender and other identity-based topics – and how those battles ultimately set back strides in diversifying children's literature.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - They need to talk about Kevin: America’s near-shutdown
The literal 11th-hour deal to avert a government shutdown is only a stopgap—and the battle may end up costing Kevin McCarthy his post as leader of the House of Representatives. The uptake of electric scooters is significantly outpacing that of four-wheeled vehicles in Asia (10:30). And Britain’s curious “risk registers” put numbers to how the world might end (16:47).
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Start the Week - The Iliad and the right to rule
After her translation of Homer’s The Odyssey the classicist Emily Wilson tackles his epic, The Iliad. She brings to life the battle cries between the Greeks and the Trojans, the bellicose leaders, the political manoeuvres and the deals with the gods.
Mary Beard looks at the expression of power in the ancient Roman world in her new study of Emperor of Rome. From Julius Caesar to Alexander Severus nearly two hundred years later, she explores just how much control and authority these rulers had, and the lengths they had to go to in order to cling on to power.
The Westminster journalist Ben Riley-Smith looks at how the Conservative Party has clung on to power over the past dozen years in his story, The Right to Rule. With five Prime Ministers in the last decade, this tale of political control involves betrayal, rebellion and the merciless ousting of leaders, in the bid to remain in government.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 10.2.23
Alabama
- AL Congressional members split votes over Stop Gap spending bill
- State of Al joins in challenging Pornhub over minor video loopholes
- State senator to bring bill to get ABC board out of retail on liquor
- Brawl at AL High school football game involves both teams on field
- Hiring fair in Jefferson county on 10/17th to help give second chance
National
- Speaker McCarthy gets 45 day CR passed and signed by Biden
- McCarthy draws ire from Matt Gaetz who plans to make motion to vacate
- RFK jr. addresses conspiracy theory charges while on live C-span
- KY congressman reveals research to put mRNA vaccine in food
- 6th circuit court rules in favor of transgender surgery bans in TN and KY
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Partition of India and Pakistan
In 1947, India and Pakistan became independent countries after almost 200 years of British colonial rule.
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That partition had wide-ranging implications, many of which are still being felt today.
Learn more about the partition of India and Pakistan, the reasons for it, and its legacy on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Rik Peels, “Life without God: An Outsider’s Look at Atheism” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the highly polarized debate about arguments for and against God's existence. Since our beliefs about the most important things in life are not usually based on arguments, we should look beyond atheistic arguments and explore what truly motivates the atheist. Are there certain ideals or experiences that explain the turn to atheism? Could atheism be the default position for us, not requiring any arguments whatsoever? And what about the often-discussed arguments against belief in God-is there something that religious and nonreligious people alike can learn from them? This book explores how a novel understanding of atheism is possible - and how it effectively moves the God debate further. Believers and nonbelievers can learn much from Peels's assessment of arguments for and against atheism.
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The NewsWorthy - Shutdown Avoided, Arrest in Tupac Case & New iPhone Bug- Monday, October 2, 2023
The news to know for Monday, October 2, 2023!
We're telling you about a last-minute deal to prevent a government shutdown: what it does and doesn't include and how long the funding lasts before it might get down to the wire again.
Also, we're remembering one of the most prominent members of the U.S. Senate who passed and letting you know who will be replacing her.
Plus, who killed 2Pac? There's a breakthrough in a case that's been baffling the hip-hop community for decades.
There's a concerning problem with Apple's new iPhones.
And Simone Biles made her mark on gymnastics once again.
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What A Day - Shutdown, Swerved
Just hours before the Saturday night deadline, a bill to fund the government through mid-November passed both chambers of Congress and was signed by President Biden. The bill – which ensures the federal government can keep paying its workers for about 45 more days – included funds for natural disaster relief, but notably did not include any added funding for Ukraine.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday night from natural causes at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 90 years old. Now, it's up to California Governor Gavin Newsom to choose her replacement ahead of next year's primary election, though he has promised to name a Black woman for the role.
And in headlines: at least 13 people were killed after a fire broke out at a nightclub in the Spanish city of Murcia, New York City is still drying out after Friday’s round of heavy rain, and Beyoncé's Renaissance tour could be coming soon to a theater near you.
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The Daily Signal - Inside the Defamation Lawsuit That Could Blow Southern Poverty Law Center Wide Open
The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty “hate groups” or “antigovernment extremist groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2019, the SPLC put D.A. King’s Dustin Inman Society on the “hate map,” years after it had told the Associated Press that King’s organization was not a “hate group.” King has sued, and a judge has allowed his defamation lawsuit to go forward.
The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil sat down with D.A. King to discuss the lawsuit and what it's like to be branded a "hate group."
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Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Hate-Pay-Corruption-Southern/dp/1642934399
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