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Front Page: The New York Times – December 27, 2022
Retirees Are One Reason the Fed Has Given Up on a Big Worker Rebound
Workers are in short supply three years into the pandemic job market rebound, and officials increasingly think they aren’t coming back.
Russian Air Base Is Attacked, as Ukraine Discounts Escalation Threat
Russia said falling wreckage from a Ukrainian drone had killed three servicemen at the base, some 300 miles from Ukraine, which would be the third such long-range attack this month.
George Santos Admits to Lying About College and Work History
The congressman-elect confirmed The New York Times’s findings that he had not graduated from college or worked at two major Wall Street firms, as he had claimed.
The Last Holdouts
What it’s like to wear masks for Covid when most others have long since moved on.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Jan 2 & 9, 2023
Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine
Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver.
What Donald Trump’s Trial Might Look Like
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition, Who Owns the Narrative?
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.
Tilt-Shift Travel: A Look At ‘Melbourne In Miniature’
I was in Australia to shoot an ARTE documentary in the Outback and decided to stay one week longer and team up with Visit Victoria to shoot my first Little Big World episode in Australia. Melbourne consistently ranked as the world’s most liveable city for much of the 2010s and I can toally see why! It’s a big vibrant city with impressive architecture, amazing cultural offers, from museums to street art, live music and theatre.
Also there are some pretty great food places in the city. Many beautiful parks in the area invote to relax and the the Yarra River for water activitie. Oh, and the Ocean is just a quick tram ride away.
Stories Of 2023: Support For Ukraine, The Cost Of Living, Global Economy
Monocle’s head of radio, Tom Edwards, looks ahead to 2023 with Rachel Cunliffe and Barbara Serra including a global response to Russia, a cost of living crisis, what’s next for the global economy at Davos and how the UK will cope with Eurovision.
Front Page: The New York Times – December 26, 2022
Democrats, Feeling New Strength, Plan to Go on Offense on Voting Rights
After retaining most of the governor’s offices they hold and capturing the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, Democrats are putting forward a long list of proposals to expand voting access.
In Memphis, the Phonics Movement Comes to High School
Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Even in biology.
How Citizen Spies Foiled Putin’s Grand Plan for One Ukrainian City
A partisan cell in Kherson spied on, undermined and even hunted down Russian soldiers. Now that Vladimir V. Putin’s forces are gone, people feel free to talk — and to brag a little.
Casinos Target a Vulnerable Clientele: Older Asian Gamblers
The industry’s efforts to lure Asian customers will be a significant factor looming over the upcoming application process for new casino licenses in New York.
Winter Views: Good Earth State Park, South Dakota
Good Earth State Park southeast of Sioux Falls is an important cultural and historical site as well as a unique nature retreat adjacent to the most developed and populated part of our state. The site itself is one of the oldest sites of long-term human habitation in the United States. The river, abundant wildlife, fertile flood plains, availability of pipestone (catlinite) and protection from winds made the area an important gathering place for seasonal ceremonies and a significant trading center for many tribal peoples from 1300-1700 A.D.
During this time, occupants were primarily Oneota Tradition Peoples, including Omaha, Ponca, Ioway and Otoe, but many other tribes were attracted and participated in trading agricultural product as well as hides, pelts and pipestone (catlinite).
This is the largest Oneota cultural site discovered to date in the upper Midwest. There are two other significant Oneota cultural sites located respectively in southwest Iowa and central Missouri.
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Dec 25, 2022
The New York Times Book Review @nytimesbooks (December 25, 2022):
Courtly Love Can Be Deadly
In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance.
Newly Published, From Worker Justice to Sound Waves
A selection of recently published books.
AUDIOBOOKS
The Power of a Good Narrative, in Your Ear or Otherwise
From Bloomsbury to the Billboard Hot 100, these audiobooks will hook you based on story alone.
Village Views: Marsaxlokk In Southeastern Malta (8K)
Inhabited and well-known since antiquity, Marsaxlokk was used as a port by Phoenicians, Carthaginians and also has the remains of a Roman-era harbour. Marsaxlokk is sometimes referred to as Portus Herculis, due to the association of Marsaxlokk Bay with the Roman and Punic remains at Tas-Silġ.
Front Page: The New York Times – December 25, 2022
How the Worst Fears for Democracy Were Averted in 2022
A precariously narrow but consequential slice of the electorate broke with its own voting history to reject openly extremist Republican candidates — at least partly out of concern for the health of the political system.
As Applications Fall, Police Departments Lure Recruits With Bonuses and Attention
Many police chiefs say staffing levels have not rebounded from a wave of resignations that started with the pandemic and the 2020 unrest.
Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa
As Moscow wages war in Ukraine, its mercenaries have already established control in the Central African Republic — with scant Western reaction.
Winter Storm Leaves Buffalo and Its Region Reeling
Here’s the latest on the bitter cold weather.
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