The New King of ‘Jeopardy!’ Is the Nicest Champ Ever Jamie Ding is on a historic winning streak, but his superpower has nothing to do with gameplay. It’s his likability.

Reading. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Reading “Born In Blackness”
I am not a learned woman (started working young) but I have learned some things in the university of my world.

@hofrench.bsky.social whew the elision is real.

Foreign carmakers turn to Chinese technology to remain relevant Western executives hope ‘in China for China’ strategy will halt sales decline in world’s largest car market

Reading. www.ft.com/content/b17b... Foreign carmakers turn to Chinese technology to remain relevant

Sadly underappreciated.

It is my understanding that Columbia University quietly killed its own research efforts into its ties to slavery.

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.

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In Angola, Pope Faces the Legacy of Colonialism

Born in Blackness. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/w...

Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine The president is directing federal agencies to boost research into the drugs and support clinical trials, moves championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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A profoundly moral and eloquent statement by a former French PM. Dominique de Villepin, on Europe's unlearned lessons from its imperial past, channeling Aimé Césaire. in the original.

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters The scene was concerning enough to prompt the homeless shelter staff to call the fire department. A woman using a walker had shown up, incontinent and carrying “a large bag of medications.”

The most American headline you'll read this weekend. apnews.com/article/ohio...

Who Is Blake Whiting? - The American Scholar The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet

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Pope Leo decries world ravaged by ‘tyrants’ following Trump’s insults The pontiff did not specifically name the president during his speech in Cameroon. He sharply criticized those who manipulate religion “for their own military, economic or political gain.”

Speak. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

New York City to Spend $4 Billion From Pension Funds on Affordable Homes

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Thanks. And good luck, Max!

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So honored that "Wakara's America" is now a finalist for the @biographersintl.bsky.social's Plutarch Award.

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My books came @hofrench.bsky.social
@africanacarr.bsky.social
@mrlamontking.bsky.social
“Born In Blackness” & “The Second Emancipation” 🫶🏾
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How the U.S. Is Uniting Libyan Rivals to Squeeze Out Russia Peace in Libya could unlock oil and mineral wealth, as well as expanding American influence.

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Just gutter bigotry now, 24/7.

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

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Stop abusing the cliché "banana republic."

Congratulations!

Vance achieves immortality.

Vance achieves immortality.

Exclusive | Europe Drafts Postwar Plan to Free Up Hormuz Without U.S. U.K. and French plan aims to give shipping companies confidence to use the strait after the fighting ends.

Farewell indispensable power. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

abigail spanberger is out here canceling tax breaks for confederate groups and getting rid of confederate license plates and i for one think this is absolutely wonderful for the centrist wing of the democratic party

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

Really, WaPo?

Saudi Arabia Is Pressing U.S. to Drop Its Hormuz Blockade Gulf energy exporters worry Iran could escalate and close the Bab al-Mandeb, the main exit route for bottlenecked Persian Gulf oil.

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I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

The ‘Terrible Intimacy’ of Black and White Americans Amid Slavery’s Horror

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