Kate Baer Is Speaking Truth. From Her Minivan.
Who says motherhood can’t be literary, even poetic?
“I guess my message is,” Kate Baer said, “that this narrative of what is ‘good art’ is tired and no longer up to you.”Credit.Andrew Mangum for The New York Times
Published March 13, 2021Updated March 15, 2021
Before the pandemic, when she could afford a babysitter, Kate Baer would write from a Panera Bread near her home in Hummelstown, Pa., where her favorite staffer, Annemarie, would save her the booth with the power outlet and didn’t mind if she brought her own food.
Jaime Herrera Beutler Is Undaunted
After seeing her eldest child through a medical nightmare, the six-term Republican from Washington was not intimidated by the idea of breaking with her party to support Donald J. Trump’s impeachment.
“I am not choosing a side; I’m choosing truth. It’s the only way to defeat fear,” Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler said of her vote to impeach former President Donald J. Trump.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
March 12, 2021
It was well past bedtime when Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler caused a stir during the first impeachment of President Donald J. Trump by bringing her 6-year-old daughter to the House floor to witness history and watch her mother vote “no.”
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How a British Gardening Show Got People Through the Pandemic
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March 12, 2021
The television show “Gardeners’ World” is an institution in Britain, where it has aired for coming up on 54 seasons, having premiered way back in 1968. It broadcasts on Friday nights, welcomed by viewers as a gentle usher into the weekend.
Monty Don, a British garden writer and author of some 21 books on the subject, has been the host since 2003. If Mr. Don’s sturdy appearance and deep, reassuring voice don’t comfort audiences, there’s the constant presence of his dogs napping at his feet.
China is having its techlash moment.
The country’s internet giants, once celebrated as engines of economic vitality, are now scorned for exploiting user data, abusing workers and squelching innovation. Jack Ma, co-founder of the e-commerce titan Alibaba, is a fallen idol, with his companies under government scrutiny for the ways they have secured their grip over the world’s second-largest economy.
But there is one tech figure who has managed to keep the Chinese public in his thrall, whose mix of impish bomb-throwing and captain-of-industry bravado seems tailor-made for this time of dashed dreams and disillusionment: Elon Musk.
“He can fight the establishment and become the richest man on earth and avoid getting beaten down in the process,” said Jane Zhang, the founder and chief executive of ShellPay, a blockchain company in Shanghai. “He’s everybody’s hope.”