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Arsenal receive worrying update on Odegaard injury that comes as a boost to Spurs

TheSpursWeb 

The news coming out of Norway’s camp is that the injury that Martin Odegaard picked up against Austria does not look encouraging, with the attacking... The post Arsenal receive worrying update on Odegaard injury that comes as a boost to Spurs appeared first on The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News.

The Acceptance Stage of Lost Evangelical Influence

Christianity Today  

American Christianity is in cultural and political decline. In 1937, 70 percent of Americans reported that they belonged to a church. These numbers held relatively steady through much of the 20th century. But in the past 25 years, an estimated 40 million Americans have stopped attending church. As Ernest Hemingway said, bankruptcy comes gradually and Read more...

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I Had a Horrific Childhood. I’m Glad I Exist.

Christianity Today  

It is midnight, and my phone is ringing. Blinking the sleep out of my eyes, I roll over to see my older sister’s name flashing across the screen. “Hello?” My sister says nothing at first. She is crying. The sound jolts me awake. “Are you okay?” I ask. Finally, she speaks: “I killed my baby.” Read more...

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Joseph and the Unintended Authoritarian Politics

Christianity Today  

As an Old Testament scholar, I’ve been spending much of my time writing a commentary on Exodus. And as I worked through the first chapter, considering the predicament of the enslaved Hebrews in Egypt, it hit me: The exploitation of the Israelites was made possible by the drastic administrative policies Joseph implemented during the years Read more...

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Stone: A look at your lawn

The Toledo Blade 

I used to work with a colleague that once said “the lawn is the canvas where the rest of the landscape is painted.”

The GOP Is Playing Chicken at the Worst Possible Time (for the GOP)

The New Republic 

When the political history of our era is written, the story line will be that the Republican Party, in its death throes, declared war on the government and then on the voting public. Our grandchildren will ask why a half-century of decline played out so very slowly that before it was over even Dick Cheney went over to the other side. We asked ourselves that at the time, we’ll explain, repeatedly concluding, erroneously, that this or that debasement would finally sever the Republican Party from the electoral minority sustaining it. Читать дальше...

He Rebuilt After 9/11. But Was It the Right Plan?

The New Republic 

The year 2001 was a bad one for Larry Silverstein, the New York real estate developer. First, he got hit by a car. In the true fashion of a Manhattan real estate boss, he was coming back from a celebratory dinner at Le Cirque carrying a jeroboam of wine when someone ran a red light, smashing into him and breaking his pelvis in 12 places. His recovery was certainly improved by the news that the preferred bidder on the World Trade Center property had dropped out due to problems with the Port Authority... Читать дальше...

Kamala Harris Can’t Keep Running Like This

The New Republic 

After seven weeks of euphoria over Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, panic finally returned to the party on Sunday. The New York Times published a poll showing Donald Trump with a slim lead over Harris nationally and a dead heat in the seven swing states that will decide the November election. With Tuesday’s debate fast approaching, the momentum that had sustained Harris since President Biden withdrew from the race has clearly dissipated.

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Season 3, Episode 9: Patient #8

The New Yorker 

For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Marines in Haditha on November 19, 2005. But maybe everyone was wrong.

The War Crimes That the Military Buried

The New Yorker 

The largest known database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators.

How Should We Create Things?

The New Yorker 

In a new documentary, the musician Brian Eno shows that playfulness can substitute for inspiration.