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Last Saturday, a day after the opening of “Peter Rabbit,” Will Gluck’s new and free adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s stories, Kenneth Mendez, the president and C.E.O. of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, issued both a statement on Facebook…
The End of Outrage, Breandan Mac Suibhne, Oxford University Press, 320 pages What is the Irish Catholic experience? This question is harder to answer in an age of acceleration and fragmentation. After all, filtered photos, snaps, and Twitter characters dictate…
If you ask President Donald Trump how he’ll end the opioid crisis, his planned wall at the US-Mexico border is almost certain to come up. With his 2019 budget plan released this week, the Trump administration once again cited the…
After years of abhorrent conditions and abuses, New York City is finally shutting down the notoriously troubled Rikers Island jail. “New York City will close the Rikers Island jail facility,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last year. “It will take…
“I expect that virtually every issue under the sun will come up during this floor debate and that’s fine,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told reporters last week. “That’s the way the Senate always used to operate, that is a good…
What’s due first, though, is scrutiny of the White House process that allowed Rob Porter’s alleged background to go either excused or unnoticed for as long as it was. If this process counts as “reasonable and normal” – to quote…
