House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is set to retire in 2027 and recently spoke about her decades-long career advocating for LGBTQ+ rights. “Anything that we accomplished, whether it was fighting HIV and AIDS, ending discrimination, passing hate crimes legislation, or ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ would never have happened without outside mobilization,” she humbly
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Hot summer sun, charming flights of fancy and a juicy red watermelon add up to superb summer fun in Bonsoir Lune’s Watermelon Pool, translated from Korean by Frances Cha.   In this lushly illustrated fantastical tale of “opening day at the watermelon pool” (rumor has it that “the coconut pool in the next town is
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By Howard Bloom Donald Trump has now told us for the 38th time that we are on the brink of a peace deal with Iran, a Memorandum of Understanding in which we both agree to turn the Strait of Hormuz back into a free passage zone, in which we agree to stage a next level of
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the biggest headlines from last week, from Amazon’s picks for the best books of 2026 so far to the winners of this year’s Nebula awards, and more. Amazon’s List of the Best Books
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Dads are notoriously hard to shop for, but we guarantee that these foolproof gift ideas will wow even the toughest of critics. Whether you choose freezable beer glasses ideal for summer sipping, an ultra-luxurious hoodie he’ll never want to take off, or an intricate Lego set that’ll feed his inner child, these gifts are a
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Ethel Just, a fluent German speaker, earned degrees from Ohio and Boston universities, then taught languages at Howard University and Washington, D.C., public schools for many years before ultimately becoming a college administrator. But when she was laid off at 59 during an economic downturn, the U.S. government only grudgingly hired her into a job
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