The world wakes up to an exhausted country.
Desperation has long been an all too common aspect of life in Lebanon. This week, after a deadly explosion in Beirut that killed more than 150 people and injured thousands, the world became acutely aware of that truth. “Decades of rot,” Faysal Itani argued, allowed a bomb-in-waiting to sit in a warehouse for almost six years. Lina Mounzer, who earlier in the week described the country’s misery, agreed. “This is not some lamentable accident,” she wrote, but a “spectacular and lethal” result of incompetence that one day shattered the lives and livelihoods of everyone who came close. |
He Predicted Trump’s Win in 2016. Now He’s Ready to Call 2020. |
Forget the pollsters. For over four decades, Allan Lichtman has successfully predicted U.S. presidential elections — and that includes Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. So what does he think will happen this November? Watch and find out. |
‘Racism Makes a Liar of God’ |
 | | Gloria Purvis hosts a popular Catholic radio show, “Morning Glory,” and a limited television series, “Authentically Free at Last.”Johnathon Kelso for The New York Times |
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“It should not be so difficult for so many Christians to affirm that yes, Black lives matter, without conditions or complaints.” |
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“For weeks I have been trying to understand my own tears in the presence of a dying cat I did not love.” |
You Deserve to Know the Truth About America’s Golden Era |
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Talking to the Dead in the Sunshine State |
 | | Illustrations by Xia Gordon |
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“When it came my turn, I stepped to the water. I turned my palms upward and closed my eyes. I invited Daniel into my energy. I heard, in his voice, the text message he sent me when I failed to return his last phone call.” |
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