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☆ Casting a Bright Light on the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The boy had been asking, “Why?” about a perceived injustice — an order to leave the playground before he was ready. But merits decisions turn out to be “only a small sliver” of the Supreme Court’s output, Vladeck writes. All the soaring rhetoric and painstaking legal analysis amount to little more than 1 percent of the court’s decrees. The shadow docket doesn’t just serve as a neutral realm of routine case management; instead, “the court’s new conservative majority has used obscure procedural orders to shift American jurisprudence to the right.”Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and an analyst at CNN, chronicles how the shadow docket came to be. But it was capital punishment, he says, that really gave rise to the shadow docket as we know it.

☆ Tracing the Angry Path From Timothy McVeigh to Trumpism
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

HOMEGROWN: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, by Jeffrey ToobinIt was the dog whistle heard ’round the world. Along with the standoff at Ruby Ridge, in 1992, Waco became a galvanizing moment for the radical right. Exactly two years later, on the morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove a Ryder truck loaded with a 7,000-pound fertilizer bomb to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Contrary to media portrayals of him at the time, McVeigh wasn’t just some lone-wolf drifter or survivalist oddball. Jeffrey Toobin’s “Homegrown” adds to this chorus, but where those other books contain a chapter on Oklahoma City, the entirety of Toobin’s book is given over to McVeigh and the ensuing trials.

☆ Craving Beauty, but at What Cost?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

THE UGLY HISTORY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS: Essays on Desire and Consumption, by Katy KelleherActivities that we tend to think of as distinctly human often have nothing to do with immediate survival. In “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things,” Katy Kelleher writes about the extreme and sometimes hideous lengths that people have gone to in order to obtain coveted objects of beauty: ruining their health, wrecking the planet, inflicting suffering on others. “I’ve never found an object that was untouched by the depravity of human greed or unblemished by the chemical undoings of time,” Kelleher writes. A journalist who writes about home and design, she realizes that it has been her job to encourage others to do the same. Kelleher points out that an element of ugliness can be part of an object’s appeal, distinguishing between the intriguingly beautiful and the boringly pretty.

☆ With His Tale of Shipwreck, David Grann Is Steady as He Goes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

THE WAGER: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David GrannThere were multiple moments while reading David Grann’s new book, “The Wager,” about an 18th-century shipwreck, when it occurred to me that the kind of nonfiction narratives The New Yorker writer has become known for share something essential with a sturdy ship. A vessel freighted with historical controversy, tangled facts and monomaniacal characters needs to be structurally sound, containing and conveying its messy cargo. It should be resilient yet nimble enough to withstand the unpredictable waters of readers’ attentions and expectations. The men were survivors of the H.M.S. Wager, a British man-of-war that had left England nearly a year and a half before, part of a squadron that had been tasked with capturing a Spanish galleon filled with treasure.

☆ A New York Times book critic says Ron DeSantis' memoir reads like it was 'churned out by ChatGPT'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The New York Times' nonfiction book critic Jennifer Szalai tore into Ron DeSantis' book on Monday. Szalai wrote that DeSantis' new book "reads like a politician's memoir churned out by ChatGPT." Szalai is a full-time book critic and writes weekly book reviews for The Times. The new DeSantis book gives readers a closer look at his life"The Courage to Be Free," a deeper look into DeSantis' life, was released on February 28. I didn't want Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck in our wedding photos," DeSantis wrote.

☆ Ploaie de goluri în ultimele meciuri din faza grupelor ale Euro 2020. Portugalia a remizat cu Franța
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-24 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Cristiano Ronaldo a marcat primul gol al întâlnirii, din penalty, în minutul 31. Lusitanii au obținut apoi încă un penalty, iar Cristiano Ronaldo l-a transformat și de această dată impecabil. Astfel, superstarul Portugaliei a egalat recordul absolut de goluri marcate la nivel de echipe naționale - 109, deținut de iranianul Ali Daei.În celălalt meci al grupei F, disputat la Munchen, Germania a remizat cu Ungaria cu același scor, 2-2. Pentru scandinavi, Emil Forsberg a marcat două goluri, iar Viktor Claesson - unul. La selecționata poloneză, Robert Lewandowski a reușit dubla.Astfel, Suedia a câștigat grupa cu 7 puncte, iar Spania s-a calificat în faza următoare a Campionatului European cu 5 puncte acumulate.

Persons: Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Lusitanii, iranianul Ali, Adam Szalai, Andras Schafer, Leon Goretzka.Astfel, Aymeric, Pablo Sarabia, Torres, Martin Dubravka, Emil Forsberg, Viktor, Robert Lewandowski Organizations: Real Madrid, iranianul, Campionatului European Locations: franceză, Portugaliei, Munchen, Germania, Ungaria, Franța, Portugalia, Spania, Slovacia, Sevilla, Suedia, Polonia, dubla.Astfel

Mbappe a ratat şi el, trimiţând cu capul puţin alături (17), la centrarea lui Digne. Atacantul lui PSG a fost din nou imprecis câteva minute mai târziu (21), la centrarea lui Benzema. Acelaşi Mbappe a fost servit bine de Giroud, dar şutul său a fost respins de portarul Gulacsi (82). Franţa are patru patru victorii în ultimele sale şapte partide în grupele EURO, dar de fiecare dată nu a reuşit să câştige meciul din 19 iunie. Franţa nu a reuşit să confirme evoluţia bună din meciul cu Germania (1-0), în care deşi a fost dominată a etalat un fotbal de nivel înalt.

Persons: Attila Fiola, Antoine Griezmann, Didier Deschamps, Mbappe, Digne, PSG, Benzema . Karim Benzema, Lloris, Gulacsi, Dembele, Attila Szalai, Orban, Cristiano Ronaldo, Michel Platini, Tolisso, Griezmann, Bleus, Agerpres . Sâmbătă Organizations: Pogba, Barcelonei, Franţa, EURO, Franţei, Agerpres Locations: Portugalia, Ungaria, României, colţ, Franţa, Mbappe, Leipzig, Germania, Portugaliei, Munchen ), Budapesta

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