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Why is the 'Where the Crawdads Sing' author wanted for questioning over a murder? What you need to know

Delia Owens' 2018 novel "Where the Crawdads Sing" has sold more than 12 million copies and been adapted into a feature film produced by Reese Witherspoon; starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, the movie opens in theaters this weekend.

Los Angeles Times

Where the Crawdads Sing: Author’s past resurfaces ahead of film release

Delia Owens is wanted for questioning as a possible witness, co-conspirator, and accessory to felony crimes over a murder that happened in Zambia in the Nineties

The Independent UK

Nina Metz: How can we come together with our world in tatters? Hollywood’s answer: Don’t even bother

Right now, it can feel like the walls are closing in. The coronavirus persists and keeps mutating. Incomes haven’t kept pace with soaring expenses. Rights and protections are being rolled back, with the promise of more to come. Another Black person killed by police. Another gun massacre. I could go…

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Unionists fume at claim UK is 'relatively poor and in comparative decline'

THE top journalist said the UK is a “relatively poor country in comparative decline” ...

The National (Scotland)

MSNBC appoints Alex Wagner as 4-night prime-time anchor

MSNBC says that journalist Alex Wagner will take over Rachel Maddow's prime-time slot four nights a week, beginning in August

The Independent UK

Fake ‘The Atlantic’ article on Biden’s bike fall goes viral

The American magazine debunked a spurious screenshot of an article calling the president’s bike fall ‘heroic’

The Independent UK

Michael Hiltzik: Progressives have ruined San Francisco. Just ask this heiress

Say what you wish about the recall last week of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's liberal district attorney, it has been a gift for pundits searching for signs of a pushback against progressive criminal justice reforms.

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Boebert on guns: No plane ban after 9/11

The owner of "Shooters Grill" gets called the "dumbest member of Congress" after Fox News interview

Salon

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 14 May 2022

It's been a bad week (month, year) to be a Web3 booster. Coinbase conceded that it may not be able to protect all the deposits it holds if it goes under. NFT's are evaporating and not even a CGI model of Madonna's vagina can save them. But in this edition…

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Love Canal disaster gets book treatment

Keith O’Brien’s “Paradise Falls” tells the story of how local mothers put the Love Canal disaster on the map

Salon

Why Pro-Choice Blue States Should also be Pro-YIMBY

Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas argues that blue states can't give "refuge" to people fleeing abortion restrictions if they don't cut back on zoning restrictions that lead to sky-high housing costs.

Reason

COUNTERPOINT: Masks remain an essential tool to protect against COVID

In his recent article in The Atlantic, Ed Yong posed a poignant question: “What does society owe immunocompromised people?”

Tribune News Service

Prof. Jeffrey Rosen on Musk and Twitter

Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at the George Washington University Law School, President of the National Constitution Center, and former legal correspondent for The New Republic, has an essay about this at The Atlantic; an excerpt: Elon Musk, in his effort to buy Twitter, signaled that under his ownership, the…

Reason

7 Corporate Titans Who Took Over Media Companies: Adelson, Bezos And More

As opposed to expectations for a drawn-out soap opera, it took just three weeks for Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk to force the Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) board into yielding.

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Axios

Structural stupidity: How historians will view social media's destruction of democracy

It's going to get much worse, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 16 April 2022

Have you heard this one? Twitter's largest individual shareholder, its biggest troll, and the world's richest man walk into a boardroom meeting. The chairperson says, "Good afternoon, Mr Musk."

Salon

"Killing Eve" boss on that shocking end

As the series comes to a close, Salon spoke to writer Laura Neal about killer road trips & ultimate destinations

Chicago Sun-Times

Former President Barack Obama warns Chicago audience of ‘anger-based’ journalism and social media cashing in on conflict

The former president said he believes platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube “appear to have some insight into what’s more likely to prompt insurrectionists, white supremacists, misogynist behavior and internet bullying.”

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In Chicago, Obama warns that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a warning of how ‘flabby’ and ‘feckless’ democracy has become

CHICAGO — Russia President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a warning that world democracy has gotten “flabby and confused and feckless” at a time of growing boldness and misguided support for authoritarianism, former President Barack Obama told a Chicago audience Wednesday.

Reason

California Can't Mandate Diversity on Corporate Boards

Plus: Prayer on football field faces SCOTUS, Mike Tyson's ear-shaped edibles banned in Colorado, and more...

The Guardian - US

‘I didn’t win the election’: Trump admits defeat in session with historians

The ex-president also said that Iran, China and South Korea were happy Biden won, adding that ‘the election was rigged and lost’

Tribune News Service

Unvaccinated Tom Cruise had COVID months after chiding ‘Mission: Impossible’ crew, report says

A new report raises questions about Tom Cruise’s presentation of himself as the safety-conscious star of “Mission: Impossible 7,” who was so vehement about protecting the production from COVID-19 that he notoriously yelled expletives at crew members who purportedly violated COVID safety protocols.

The Guardian - UK

Taking back control: Charli XCX and Olivia Rodrigo’s films celebrate craft, not drama

New documentaries about two pop icons at work eschew the obligatory turmoil of films about female stars to focus on creativity as a marker of growth

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: UCLA advertised a faculty job that carries no pay whatsoever

For those bemoaning the systematic devaluation of university teaching as a career and a calling, UCLA just put a hard number to the complaint.

Reason

"Of Course Journalists Should Interview Autocrats"

An article in The Atlantic by Graeme Wood, about his profile of Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman; here are the closing paragraphs: Various journalists complained that I described MBS as personally "charming" and "intelligent." To this my reply is twofold. First, MBS was indeed charming and intelligent, and if…

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