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August 1, 2016 by

How I Came To Fall for Taylor Swift Big Time

If Taylor Swift sat next to me on a bus – an unlikely confluence — I wouldn’t know that she was a famous singer, an idol to millions of young people (who call themselves Swifties), and especially to young women. But I have fallen for her big time. Popular culture – with which I’ve never […]

Joe Madison Thinks Voting Rights Are Worth Risking His Life For

Llewellyn King

Election Day isn’t celebrated, and for most of us, voting is inconvenient. So much so that only presidential elections draw a decent turnout. In 2020, a record year, 66.8 percent of the electorate voted. The ballot box towers in significance in its consequence, but it seems banal when you traipse to a church hall, an […]

Echoes of the Vietnam War: Journalists Begin To Take a Stand

Llewellyn King

I remember the feeling in newsrooms back in the 1960s, as many journalists began to have doubts about the Vietnam War. In those big workspaces where newspapers come together and broadcasts are assembled, the Vietnam War was taken by journalists to be the good guys versus the bad guys — the way it had been […]

The 2022 Climate Debate: Will Population Growth Dominate?

Llewellyn King

It wasn’t front and center at the climate change summit, COP26, in Glasgow, but it was whispered about informally, in the corridors, and over meals. For politicians, it is flammable. For some religions, it is heresy. Yet it begs a hearing: the growth of the global population. While the world struggles to decarbonize, saving it […]