{"id":16193,"date":"2022-08-25T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=16193"},"modified":"2022-08-25T17:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:16:36","slug":"todays-headlines-25-aug-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2022\/08\/25\/todays-headlines-25-aug-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Headlines, 25 Aug 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s do this again. One headline each from a bunch of sites I look at every day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/08\/26\/opinion\/25krugman\/25krugman-superJumbo.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>New York Times, Paul Krugman, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/25\/opinion\/student-debt-relief-biden.html\">Student Debt Relief Versus the Scaremongers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post, Marisa Iati, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2022\/08\/25\/texas-arabic-in-god-we-trust\/\">Texas requires \u2018In God We Trust\u2019 signs in schools. A man wants some in Arabic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slate, Zachary D. Carter, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2022\/08\/student-loan-forgiveness-long-history-debt.html\">What the Critics of Loan Forgiveness Are Forgetting<\/a>, subtitle: &#8220;Functioning societies eliminate burdensome debt all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salon, Brian Karem, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/08\/25\/america-has-a-chance-to-retreat-from-madness-will-the-midterms-save-us--or-doom-democracy\/\">America has a chance to retreat from madness: Will the midterms save us \u2014 or doom democracy?<\/a>, subtitle: &#8220;Some Trump voters are ripe for deprogramming. Instead of calling them names, let&#8217;s work together to save America&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vox, Constance Grady, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/23316541\/publishing-antitrust-lawsuit-merger-department-justice-penguin-random-house-simon-schuster\">Book publishers just spent 3 weeks in court arguing they have no idea what they\u2019re doing<\/a>, subtitle: &#8220;The Justice Department is suing to block Penguin Random House and Simon &amp; Schuster\u2019s proposed merger. The publishers\u2019 defense hinged on their own incompetence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Week, Brigid Kennedy, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/lgbtq\/1016194\/court-blocks-arkansas-ban-on-health-care-for-transgender-kids\">Court blocks Arkansas ban on health care for transgender kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Axios, Russell Contreras, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/25\/catholic-saints-narco-latin-america-us\">More alienated Latinos are turning to unofficial saints<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boing Boing, Jason Weisberger, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2022\/08\/25\/the-white-house-points-out-marjorie-taylor-greenes-duplicity-on-loan-forgiveness.html\">The White House points out Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s duplicity on loan forgiveness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Think, Don Lincoln, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/hard-science\/big-bang-jwst-james-webb\/\">No, the James Webb Space Telescope did not disprove the Big Bang<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Atlantic, Ed Yong, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2022\/08\/eyes-body-twitch-rem-sleep-dreaming\/671232\/\">A New Test for an Old Theory About Dreams<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;When a sleeping animal\u2019s eyes twitch beneath its eyelids, is it looking around a dream world?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Republic, Maria Laurino, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/167525\/safe-haven-baby-boxes-medieval\">Safe Haven \u201cBaby Boxes\u201d Are a Medieval Horror Show<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;The right touts them as proof that the need for abortion rights is pass\u00e9. But they\u2019re rooted in an old Catholic practice that scarred and stigmatized women for centuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Evolution Is True, Jerry Coyne, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.com\/2022\/08\/25\/all-the-light-we-cannot-see-many-thumbs-up\/\">\u201cAll the Light We Cannot See\u201d, a fantastic book<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Matters, 25 Aug 2022<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/right-wing-media-erroneously-claim-biden-facilitated-search-mar-lago\">Right-wing media erroneously claim Biden \u201cfacilitated\u201d search of Mar-a-Lago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s do this again. 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