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How Arizona author Ayanna Thompson is taking Hollywood to task over racism in TV and film, just in time for the 2021 Academy Awards.

Updated / Wednesday, 21 Apr 2021 16:50 Colm Tóibín introduces Boland: Journey of a Poet, a new online production from Druid Theatre exploring the life of poet Eavan Boland through her own poetry and autobiographical prose, edited by Tóibín and performed by actor Siobhán Cullen, and premiering online this Thursday, April 22nd. I knew Eavan Bolands voice from the radio. Her tone was both questioning and authoritative. Poetry mattered to her. It did not survive solely in a private realm, bu...

The claim was big, the letters bold across the top of the Time magazine cover for November 2-9, 2020: “The Great Reset.” At the beginning of the special double issue of this well-respected international magazine, readers were informed that “the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a unique opportunity to think about the kind of future we want.”1 Inside the magazine, thought leaders from around the world offered their vision for a new kind of world— reimagining just about every aspect of li...

February 23, 2021 TomorrowTalks brings the thought leaders of today in conversation with the changemakers of tomorrow Anybody who has had the opportunity to hear Michael Eric Dyson speak will tell you how powerful an experience it can be. That includes former President Barack Obama, who once said that anyone unlucky enough to follow him was sure to “pale in comparison.” Fortunately for students at Arizona State University, where the famed author and one of America’s fo...

3 Min Read Published on: 01-22-2021 “Lift up the trumpet, and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again!” As Seventh-day Adventists, we have sung this song for many years, looking forward to the Second Coming of Christ. However, as the decades have rolled by, some have wondered if Christ is really coming soon. Today, however, it seems that more and more people are waking up to the fact that the world is on the verge of a stupendous crisis—one described in the Bible as l...

Print this article Of the many things I would not, as a young man, have predicted about my life at present, perhaps the most surprising is that I would spend dozens or perhaps hundreds of hours drinking gin in Spanish airports and train stations (I am writing this in Terminal Four of Barajas Airport in Madrid, where the cashier in duty free was kind enough to ask whether I needed — no, gracias — the customary sealed bag for my half-pint of Gordon’s). I didn’t start learning Spanish un...

3 Min Read Published on: 12-29-2020 As a child I enjoyed a series of biblical cartoons that were very well done, both for their artistic quality and for their respectful adaptation of the biblical text. These cartoons re-created various stories from the New Testament. Now that I am a father, I still find myself watching these Bible lessons from time to time with my children. One of the stories included in this animated series is the well-known parable of the 10 virgins (Mat...

At once fascinating, fun and scholarly, ‘Gin’ distills appreciation for an enduring quaff Shonna Milliken Humphrey has written a memoir, a novel and now an ode to gin. By Thomas Urquhart Share Some years ago, I discovered Greenall’s gin – on special at Heathrow’s Duty Free shop. It was love at first sip. From then on, a bottle was a prize from every trip abroad. Until last January. At the airport, Greenall’s was everywhere I looked: wild berry gin, blueberry gin, blood orange and ...

Staff writer at the new yorker and cnn global affairs analyst. great to see you. one of the defining characteristics of republicans in the senate has been their reluctance to criticize or speak out against lots of things over the past couple of years with president trump. so why now? why has this syria decision changed things for them? >> thats right. its been one of the central paradoxes of the trump era. the silence of the republicans. and, you know, they have these object lessons in what happ...

Time space continuum. and we are here on a crucial day, in all seriousness, in american history. we can lift up beyond the question of impeachment by talking about lawlessness for a moment. do you think the president understands right from wrong? its a very serious question. do you think he has the capacity to understand that -- remember, this phone call happened, just using it as an example, it happened the day after mueller testified. theres some object lessons in the whole mueller case for a ...