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Willie Mays Was Baseball’s Last Mythic Hero
The Nation· 4 hours agoWillie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for 22 years with the Giants and Mets, died on June 18, 2024. With his death, the era of the living,...
Remembering Vint Lawrence
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThe preeminent highbrow caricaturist at that time was David Levine of The New York Review of Books. Levine had a dark and often angry style; he once drew...
Reports of the petrodollar system’s demise are ‘fake news’ — here’s why
MarketWatch via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoStories about the collapse of a longstanding “petrodollar” agreement between the U.S. and Saudi...
Most popular Republican in America will surprise you (it’s not Donald Trump)
Birmingham News· 4 days agoIn fact, the GOP-er with the highest approval rating doesn’t currently hold any elected office nor...
Opinion: The great powers are itching for another nuclear arms race. Who will stop them?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoAs the former CIA deputy director for intelligence rightly said to then-national security advisor ...
No, We Are Not Living in ‘Late Soviet America’
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt’s vintage Ferguson, brimming with interesting insights, facts, and more than one dyspeptic I-told-you-so. Maybe it’s because he spent so much time...
Donald Sutherland, veteran actor known for roles in “M*A*S*H,” “Klute” and “The Hunger Games, dead...
CNN.com· 19 hours agoDonald Sutherland, a veteran actor known for roles in “M*A*S*H,” “Klute” and “The Hunger Games,” has...
Noam Chomsky isn’t dead yet
The Verge· 3 days agoEveryone dies eventually, and famed linguist Noam Chomsky will be no different — but at the time of this writing, he is alive. Chomsky, 95, has been...
Orbán goes full Trump with MEGA mission
Politico· 1 day agoThey’ll take another run at it next week when they meet in Brussels for a two-day summit. Power vacuum: At this point the answer to the old (likely apocryphal) adage ascribed to Henry ...
William Donaldson, SEC chief who bolstered watchdog powers, dies at 93
Washington Post· 7 days agoHe was 93. Mr. Donaldson had been planning to ease into semi-retirement in late 2002 after a career...
