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Songs From A Mountain Goats Album In Which Cicero Is Not Mentioned And Everybody’s Marriages Work Out on October 28, 2015in Albums In Which /end .article-byline The Mountain Goats – John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, December 2010. /end .figure “I Love You. Let’s Stay Away From Fire Accelerants” “This Motel Isn’t A Symbol…
“Funny, right?” she says, smiling. It was her job to rip out the news as it came into the newsroom and hand it to the men in charge. It went on like that for a while. Even when she finally scored a position in the White House press corps, she knew where she stood….
AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 For some publishers, such as The New York Times, metered paywalls have provided a much-needed revenue stream by converting free, loyal readers into paying digital subscribers. But Newsweek is going in the other direction, opting to drop its paywall Wednesday morning. “The general strategy is to open up and…
Over the past few days, women leaders have gotten a lot of attention for calling on other women to vote for Hillary Clinton. Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be secretary of state, told a crowd at a Clinton rally, “Just remember, there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”…
Workers trying to leave Levi’s Stadium after Super Bowl 50. Gabriel Thompson This article was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. On Super Bowl Sunday, a few minutes before 7 a.m., I park in a crowded dirt lot behind Avaya Stadium, home to the San Jose Earthquakes soccer team. I’m carrying…
He claimed the UN has spent less than half a billion dollars in the crisis and said member nations could instead be told to take in more migrants. “Shame on you! Shame on you!” said Mr Erdogan. In recent days, the UN, EU and other organisations have called on Turkey to take in Syrian refugees…
At least 58 people were killed and another 78 injured when two female bombers detonated their suicide vests, according to emergency relief officials. The victims were in a camp for people who had been displaced by Boko Haram violence in Nigeria’s Borno State. As horrendous as the attack was, it could have been worse. One…
SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) announced Wednesday it will lay off 107 employees in the first of what is expected to be more than 1,500 job cuts. The layoffs take effect April 11 and affected employees received 60-day advance notice of the move, Yahoo said in a notice filed with the California Employment Development…
The US intelligence chief has acknowledged for the first time that agencies might use a new generation of smart household devices to increase their surveillance capabilities. As increasing numbers of devices connect to the internet and to one another, the so-called internet of things promises consumers increased convenience – the remotely operated thermostat from Google-owned…
Airbnb’s efforts to become an “open and transparent” company might not quite line up with traditional definitions of transparency. A report released Wednesday suggests that Airbnb manipulated listing data in New York City prior to publicly releasing that data to regulators in December, in an effort to quell concerns that the platform was enabling professional…