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too much. “That was something I was penalized for in school — like, I was annoying,” says the comedian in a video chat. “But now it serves a purpose.” The 29-year-old New Yorker is known for her frank, funny conversations about sensitive issues, especially race. It all began with a YouTube series, “Baited,” where she’d needle her comedian friends by asking humorously uncomfortable questions like, “On a scale of Malcolm to Martin, how much do you hate white people?” When the ...

A couple of additional data points since I submitted my column on Tucker Carlson to GBH News. • The white nationalist organization VDARE tweeted enthusiastically about Carlson’s endorsement of ideas that sound very much like “white replacement theory”: “This segment is one of the best things Fox News has ever aired and was filled with ideas and talking points VDARE.com pioneered many years ago. You should watch the whole thing.” (See the Southern Poverty Law Center’s take on VDARE...

Don Clippinger Nearly three centuries ago, the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, “A Modest Proposal,” in which he advocated that Ireland’s poor families sell their infants to the rich as food. The point of his straight-faced advocacy for infanticide and cannibalism was inequality, an issue that persists today. Let’s imagine that Swift or one of his successors landed in America today, in the midst of a pandemic, and surveyed our society and its challenges. One issue ...

During a December visit to New York City, writer E. Jean Carroll says she went shopping with a fashion consultant to find the "best outfit" for one of the most important days of her life - when she'll sit face-to-face with the man she accuses of raping her decades ago, former President Donald Trump.

  New York System Weiners, 424 Smith Street. PHOTO: Will Morgan Such a potential grand boulevard offers a colorful mosaic of churches, restaurants, bars, ethnic groceries, stores, fast food joints, and bodegas. Not least of all is the nearly century-old New York System Weiners with its fabulous neon moniker. Smith Hill is as close to the State House as is College Hill, yet it has some positive elements that need reinforcing. It definitely could use an infusion of capital and commitment. But le...

The Globe and Mail Linda So Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images During a December visit to New York City, writer E. Jean Carroll says she went shopping with a fashion consultant to find the “best outfit” for one of the most important days of he...

My Turn: Love your enemy? How? A modest proposal Electoral College votes are brought as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Mike Pence officiate as a joint session of the House and Senate reconvenes to confirm the official results of the presidential election at the Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6. AP Published: 2/21/2021 6:41:01 AM (Editor’s note: The following address was originally presented to the Kearsarge Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Feb. 14. The author ...

Years ago I discovered a shocking early English political satirist when a professor urged me not study her. Dismissing what I assumed was his liberal bias, I claimed bipartisan curiosity and dove in anyway. You could say I fell for the clickbait. What I found went beyond politics. To explain why I later stopped studying her, I said she sounded like “the Ann Coulter of 1709,” after the modern right-wing commentator. The satirist, London playwright Delarivier Manley, wrote and flourished betw...

Originally published on January 4, 2021 2:15 pm Learning isn’t easy for students or parents during a pandemic, with classrooms closed and lessons delivered remotely. It’s not easy for teachers, either. In front of a computer screen instead of a classroom, they work to keep their often distracted students engaged, but not overwhelmed. They miss the interaction in-person schooling affords – the chance to help with emotional issues or simply to give and receive a reassuring hug. And many ...

I Promise teacher Melissa Beitko and intervention specialist Kelsey Kent are online with their 4th grade students. Learning isn’t easy for students or parents during a pandemic, with classrooms closed and lessons delivered remotely. It’s not easy for teachers, either. In front of a computer screen instead of a classroom, they work to keep their often distracted students engaged, but not overwhelmed. They miss the interaction in-person schooling affords – the chance to help with emotional ...