Calls for racial justice have swept the land, and schools ... Today Joe Biden quoted John Paul II. That was because there’s so much more to see first!
Students are heading back to school this fall (in-person or remotely) after the longest, strangest summer on record.
Welcome back to The Tuesday, a newsletter about politics, culture, and language that has returned from a vacation that was if not necessarily much-deserved then at least much-needed. Although a small army of media fact-checkers claim otherwise, Joe Biden wants to end single-family zoning in America’s suburbs. Hollywood deals out dozens of what it is pleased to label “event movies” every year, but never in that institution’s history has there been an event movie like Christopher Nolan's Tenet. He was brought up in an environment in which savings had been destroyed by inflation and a failure to keep up with the Industrial Revolution was impoverishing local people.
Italian opposition leader Matteo Salvini expresses sympathy for fans of a referendum on exiting that would tap into rising Italian frustration with the euro.The wrangling was on display last week when euro-area finance chiefs approved a deal to provide ultra-cheap loans via its rescue fund, but without any onerous conditions.
Today Joe Biden quoted John Paul II. It was green in every corner and filled with flowers everywhere. Ritual denunciations are a necessary part of ritualized politics. This election season is just going to get more and more absurd. On a side note, who has seen the movie “Gladiator”? Whether it’s That was it for what I remember of Rome.
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The first and last time that I was in Rome was back in 2017.
Any problem there would be enough to send shock waves through global financial markets and Europe’s weakened banking system.To that should be added the mayhem to the internal-financing arrangements of the Eurosystem, particularly And the chaos across the euro zone caused by an Italian exit would not stop there.The threat that Italy might quit the currency union remains one of its biggest weapons: It is too big to sail.No one in Rome needed to hear the warning last week from the European Commission that the virus-spawned recession will be severe enough to put euro unity at risk. Arrivederci Roma is not only a beautiful song to let your mind wonder of by Dean Martin, but also a way to say “See you later, Rome”.
Italy has been in and out of recession since 2000 and now its weakened, heavily indebted economy has to deal with the consequences of COVID-19 …
Lyrics to 'Arrivederci, Roma' by Dean Martin. Today, Massachusetts voters get to choose the victor of the state’s Democratic Senate primary. It’s been the summer not just of COVID but also of massive protests and rioting triggered by the police killing of George Floyd in May.
The event it marks is not just the movie’s release but also America’s return to something like normal life.
The first and last time that I was in Rome was back in 2017. It was inevitable that Karl Marx would become a Marxist -- at least according to the precepts of that ideology. “Joe Biden condemns violence in Portland and challenges President Trump to do the same” reads a ridiculous CNN headline about the presidential nominee’s ...
Welcome back to The Tuesday, a newsletter about politics, culture, and language that has returned from a vacation that was if not necessarily much-deserved then at least much-needed.