January 2020

Costa Book of the Year: Auschwitz resistance biography wins £30,000 prize

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Fairweather said his winning book contained “a strong message for us today” The Volunteer, a biography of a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has won the Costa Book of the Year award. The book, by former war reporter Jack Fairweather, beat four other titles

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Why Random Government Accounts Are All Over Your Timeline

Nathan Allebach, a social media manager who counts among his successes the Steak-umm Twitter account, believes the voguish disregard for the established rules of institutional social media traces back to the beginning of the Trump administration. For the first time in American history, he said, we have a president who constantly tweets in his own

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The One About Iowa, Black Voters and Barack Obama

DES MOINES — It has become political lore, repeated on cable airwaves and by Democratic campaign consultants, even presidential candidates. In 2007, as the story goes, black voters were uncertain about Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy until he won the Iowa caucuses, after which they rallied around him over the onetime front-runner, Hillary Clinton. Some Democrats

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Trevor Noah: John Bolton Is No Longer Invited To The Fox News Family Cookout

Fox News hosts seem to have removed John Bolton from their friends’ lists. Tuesday night’s installment of “The Daily Show” highlighted the conservative network’s drastic-180 in how it views the former national security advisor whose forthcoming book reportedly contains allegations that confirm the main charge against President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial. According to

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