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☆ My son dropped out of high school to teach himself and later decided against college. I supported him every step of the way.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Rachel Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewA few weeks before he turned 16, my older son pitched us a plan to leave high school on his upcoming birthday. So, I wasn't surprised when my son told me he wanted to drop out of high school to teach himself. AdvertisementOne day, I took them for a trial run at a K-8 Expeditionary Learning school that had recently formed in our small town. Related storiesPerhaps it was inevitable, then, that my older son felt increasingly hemmed in by his year-and-a-half at a public high school. Between 16 and 18, he began contracting as a filmmaker with the K-8 EL school he'd once attended.

Persons: —, I'd, he'd, He'd, We'd, who'd, He's, I've, he's, Rachel Clark Organizations: Service, Business, Kahn Academy, Newsweek, Salon, Today Locations: Idaho, Iceland, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Europe, It's, www.rachelclarkauthor.com

☆ Opinion: I’m a daughter of Holocaust survivors. These German students and I are learning about the power of listening
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Opinion Elizabeth Rosner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Sometime in late April, the Jewish cemetery in upstate New York where both of my parents are buried was vandalized. For now, the perpetrators remain unknown, though their motivation seems obvious to everyone in the Jewish community, near and far. Elizabeth Rosner Tora SmartRecently, CNN reported that nearly 180 gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati were vandalized. Having been immersed in my highly autobiographical pages for two semesters, the students ask me questions that are respectful yet probingly intimate. For now, I sit with the German translation students in silence.

Persons: Elizabeth Rosner, CNN —, Elizabeth Rosner Tora Smart, I’ve, Robert Frost, Gustav Klimt, —, General George Patton’s Organizations: Art, CNN, General George Patton’s Third Army Locations: New York, Cincinnati, Germany, Buchenwald, Hamburg, Vietnam, Israel

☆ Opinion: For Black people, there’s an important history of flight as fight
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Opinion Kellie Carter Jackson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

All throughout African American history, leaving has been a form of refusal — something Black people have done in response to White supremacy for centuries. Flight is one of the most common actions in the history of Black resistance. Everything in the South depended on enslaved labor. Cities were already fragile from White flight: White families that were not interested in integration left cities for the suburbs decades earlier, in the 1940s and 1950s. But in America, as a Black American, what is home?

Persons: Kellie Carter Jackson, Michael, Denise Kellen ’, “, Read, ” Marvin Germain, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Ida B, Wells, Jackson, Paul Robeson, James Baldwin, Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Mabel, Robert Williams Organizations: of Africana Studies, Wellesley College, CNN, American, Poor, Mortgage, realtors, Act, Europe, NAACP, Black Panthers Locations: Canada, Ghana, Portugal, Charleston, Georgia, Virginia, Midwest, Northeast, West Coast ., masse, White, United States, States, Europe, Cuba, China, Detroit, Tanzania, Algeria, America

☆ 10 historical photos that capture turning points of gay liberation in America
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Myron Caringal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case that legalized same sex marriage nationwide. Eric Gay / AP PhotoOn June 26, 2003, same-sex sexual activity was legalized in Lawrence v. Texas. The Supreme Court of the United States held that criminalizing consensual, same-sex sexual conduct violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. On June 26, 2015, exactly 12 years after Lawrence v. Texas, the United States Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriages are recognized under the 14th Amendment in the Obergefell v. Hodges case. More recently, on June 28, the Texas Supreme Court upheld its 2023 ruling that bans transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming medical care.

Persons: Jim Obergefell, Hodges, Eric Gay, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton's, Lawrence, Momo Takahashi Organizations: Lawrence v . Texas, . Texas, United States Supreme Locations: Lawrence v ., United States, ., Texas

☆ There won't be an Asian NATO, says ex-Chinese military officer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThere won't be an Asian NATO, says ex-Chinese military officerZhou Bo, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy and a retired officer of the People's Liberation Army, says that's because Article 5, which is core to NATO, would be difficult to apply to the region.

Persons: Zhou Bo Organizations: Tsinghua University's Center for International Security, People's Liberation Army, NATO Locations: Asian NATO

☆ Belarus and China conduct joint military exercises right next to NATO and EU’s border
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Isaac Yee | Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —China and Belarus announced they were holding joint military training exercises just miles from the border of Poland – a NATO and European Union member. Belarus’ Ministry of Defense said troops from China’s People’s Liberation Army arrived in Belarus over the weekend. The exercises are taking place near the Belarus city of Brest on the Belarus-Poland border which is around 130 miles from the Polish capital of Warsaw and some 40 miles from Minsk’s border with Ukraine. Moscow partly used Belarus as a launching pad for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 after amassing troops on the Ukrainian border during what it said were joint military exercises. The Chinese troops arrived in Belarus just days after that country joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on Thursday.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky Organizations: CNN, NATO, European Union, Belarus ’ Ministry of Defense, China’s People’s Liberation Army, EU, Washington , D.C, China’s Ministry of Defense, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO Locations: China, Belarus, Poland, China’s, weaponizing, Washington ,, Brest, Warsaw, Minsk’s, Ukraine, Moscow, Ukrainian, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Beijing, Central Asia, United States

☆ What to Know as Israel and Hezbollah Stand on Brink of New War
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Vivian Yee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For months, concerns have grown that the war in Gaza might ignite a second conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the well-armed militia that is loosely allied with Hamas and based just across Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. The two sides have repeatedly traded strikes since the Gaza war began in October, killing civilians and combatants in Lebanon and Israel, with most of the civilian casualties in Lebanon. The hostilities have also forced more than 150,000 people on both sides of the border to leave their homes for temporary shelters. Here’s a look at Hezbollah as it stands on the brink of a new fight, and why that could still be averted. Hezbollah has opposed Israel since the group’s very beginnings.

Organizations: Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestine Liberation Organization Locations: Gaza, Israel, Lebanon

☆ Far Right’s Surge in France Lays Bare Deep Divisions
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For many, France feels like a very different place on Monday. The results from the first round of legislative elections, held on Sunday, revealed a country deeply fractured, with a surging far right winning a record number of votes and the near collapse of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party. “The far right at power’s door,” the cover of Le Parisien, a daily newspaper, pronounced the morning after the first half of the snap election called by Mr. Macron. “Twelve million of our fellow citizens have voted for a far right party that is clearly racist and anti-Republican,” the left-leaning Libération newspaper declared in an editorial, referring to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party. If the National Rally takes an absolute majority in the runoff on Sunday, Mr. Macron will be forced to appoint a prime minister from its ranks, who will in turn form a cabinet.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron’s, Le Parisien, Macron, ” Organizations: Republican, Rally Locations: France

☆ China’s ‘military readiness’ questioned with dramatic downfall of two defense ministers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

At the height of their careers, former defense ministers Li and Wei often struck a tough tone before the world’s top military officials. Former Defense Ministers Li Shangfu and his predecessor Wei Fenghe have both been expelled from the Communist Party over corruption allegations. Most of the generals dismissed or disappeared without explanation last year were linked to the Rocket Force or military equipment, including Li and Wei. An engineer by training, the 66-year-old spent decades launching rockets and satellites in southwest China before being promoted to the PLA headquarters to deal with military equipment procurement. “The gun barrel must always be held in the hands of those who are loyal and reliable to the party,” Xi told the PLA elites.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN —, Xi, Li Shangfu, Wei Fenghe, Xi Jinping, Li, Wei, “, James Char, ”, Former Defense Ministers Li Shangfu, Wei’s, Joel Wuthnow, ” Wuthnow, ” Char, Weidong, Char, Jason Lee, Xu Caihou, Guo Boxiong, Xu, Guo, Wuthnow, Jiang Zemin, haven’t, ” Wei, Li “, Bill Bishop, ” Xi Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Communist Party, People’s Liberation Army, PLA, Rajaratnam, of International Studies, Former Defense Ministers, AP, Reuters, Rocket Force, Development Department, Second Artillery Corps, Pentagon, National Defense University, CCP, China’s Naval University of Engineering, Central Military Commission, Military, People's, CMC, Communist Locations: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United States, Singapore, People's Republic of China, Beijing, Yan’an

☆ Why I Won’t Be Marching in the N.Y.C. Pride Parade - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Amichai Lau-Lavie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I’ve been marching in Pride parades since 1995, but I won’t be marching this year in New York, where I live. Pride Month has always been about a political and progressive embrace of our rainbow of choices. Long before Oct. 7, 2023, Jewish progressives like me protested the Israeli occupation and preached a just two-state solution. I have helped to pioneer faith-led Pride programs that are grounded in Jewish values, fighting for freedom and liberation for all. So it’s painful to admit that I don’t feel welcome as my full self in many queer public places that once felt like home.

Persons: I’ve, I’m, Long Locations: New York, Israel, Gaza, American

☆ China and Russia are in a bad marriage that the West shouldn't try to break up
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Already, Russia's military and China's People's Liberation Army have held around 25 joint exercises since 2005, involving ships, aircraft and ground troops. Equally important is that China has become a key enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine. Advertisement"Policymakers and planners should avoid overestimating the state of military cooperation and operational integration that exists between Russia and China," RAND warned. AdvertisementDespite boasting of their military ties, Russia and China don't have much faith in each other's military prowess. In their 2001 friendship treaty, China and Russia did agree to consult with each other should either nation be attacked.

Persons: Mladen Antonov, Russia's, Mark Cozad, Cozad, Hitler, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Communist, Business, NATO, RAND Corp, Liberation Army, British, RAND, PLA, People's, Army, Russian, Grand Alliance, Western Allies, Central, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Soviet Union, China, Beijing, Moscow, U.S, Russian, Europe, Taiwan, Ukraine, Russia, Britain, South Korea, America, Vietnam, Korea, Syria, West, Central Asia, United States, Forbes

And they were everywhere, although, naturally, New York City was a magnet, as it has always been for L.G.B.T.Q.+ people looking for a place in which they can be themselves. New York City was where you lost your soul, and we wanted to be closer to the earth. I wore an eight-and-a-half-foot-tall Statue of Liberty costume to the Easter Parade in New York City, and Kirsten came along with me. By the time I turned 30, I’d been telling people I was older for years, because I’m not the type to bemoan the loss of my youth. Going to New York felt like this moment of emerging to a wider audience, and then I started to travel a lot.

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☆ Thailand is now the Myanmar junta’s favored banking destination as military attacks ramp up, UN expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Helen Regan | Kocha Olarn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Hong Kong/Bangkok CNN —International banks are playing a significant role in the Myanmar military junta’s ability to carry out its systematic and deadly assault on its people, a new United Nations-backed report has found. Athit Perawongmetha/ReutersThe Thai connectionSingapore-based entities were Myanmar’s third largest source of weapons and military materials. In 2022, Singapore-based banks facilitated more than 70% of the junta’s purchases passing through the banking system. Looking for other financial institutions, the junta found neighboring Thailand. “Our banking and financial institutions follow banking protocols as any major financial hub.

Persons: Tom Andrews, ” Andrews, Banks, ”, Athit Perawongmetha, “ Organizations: Bangkok CNN — International, United Nations, UN, Administration Council, SAC, “ Banking, Military Junta, States, Karen National Liberation Army, Siam Commercial Bank, CNN, Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Economic Bank Locations: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Myanmar, Singapore, Myawaddy, Thailand, Thai, Siam

☆ Opinion: How South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma used Trump’s playbook – and lost
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Opinion Sean Jacobs | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

But the figure of former President Jacob Zuma and his new political party uMkhonto – or simply “MK” – provoked more reaction. Jerome Delay/APMoreover, according to Herman, pro-Zuma conspiracy theories and propaganda, some with Russian fingerprints, had been flooding South African social media in the lead-up to the election. And even as Zuma takes pages from Trump’s playbook, South Africans may be telling a different narrative. Facing pressure, Zuma resigned as South African president in 2018. Though some South Africans still admire the US’ capitalist spirit, I find that the South African friends who visit me in the US don’t always feel at ease anymore.

Persons: Sean Jacobs, Cape Town CNN —, Read, Nelson Mandela –, Jacob Zuma, uMkhonto, ”, –, Herman Wasserman, Herman, Zuma, Donald Trump’s, Jerome Delay, Trump’s, Mandela, Michele Spatari, Duduzile, Jacob Zuma's, MK’s, Zuma’s, “, jestingly liken Donald Trump, Jacob Zuma of, Putin, playbook, Nelson Mandela, Alexander Joe, Trump, “ I’ve, it’s Biden, won’t Organizations: CNN, New School, Cape Town CNN, African National Congress, Zulu, Stellenbosch University, Former South, ANC, Getty, Democratic Alliance, DA, South, Trump, Jacob Zuma of America, Durban, International Court of Justice, Global Locations: Africa, South Africa, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, America, Taiwan, Germany Riding, United States, Orlando, Soweto, Johannesburg, Trump’s playbook, South, Robben, Orange Farm, AFP, Cape, Durban, Russia, States, China, Israel, New York City

☆ Casa Susanna: How an upstate New York home became a safe haven for trans women in 1960s America
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Suyin Haynes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Her name is Susanna Valenti, and her home is Casa Susanna, located in the Catskills, in upstate New York. Pictured above, guests with Susanna Valenti (right) in her wife Marie Tonell's New York City apartment, circa 1960-63. Susanna (right) and two friends are pictured on a swing set at Casa Susanna, circa 1960. In discoveries of other Casa Susanna photographs, multiple copies of the same image have been found. I think people find it somewhere between charming and mind blowing.” Pictured above, guests at Casa Susanna circa 1964-68.

Persons: Susanna Valenti, Casa, Casa Susanna, “ Casa, Valenti, Marie Tonell, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawrence, Harvey Fierstein’s “, Valentina ”, Sophie Hackett, Marie Tonell's, Susan Stryker, “, ” Stryker, I’ve, ’, ‘, Virginia Prince, Stryker, “ Transvestia ”, Susanna, Lili, Wilma, Prince, Virginia, ”, Susanna Says, Casa Susanna ., Tonell, Gloria, Jessica, Lee Miller, ” Lili, that’s, Hackett, ” Hackett, Transvestia, ” Prince, Transvestia ”, Isabelle Bonnet Organizations: CNN, Art, Ontario’s, First Trans Network, Louise Lawrence Transgender, Casa Susanna, Hudson, Casa, Virginia, of Ontario, Prince Locations: New York, United States, New York City, York City, Los Angeles, America, Casa, Chile, Michigan, Colombian, Thames, Hudson

☆ Ukraine needs to stop fighting the war Russia wants
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Build up Ukrainian military power and compel Russia to agree to peace, argues a Ukrainian security expert. It's also clear that even with robust EU and US support, Ukraine is still at a disadvantage against the Russian war machine in a years-long fight. Related storiesDanylyuk also worries that political divergences between Ukraine and its allies are undermining Ukrainian military effectiveness. REUTERS/Sofiia GatilovaThe result is that the Ukrainian military isn't sure what kind of war to prepare for. Interestingly, Danylyuk blames the West for failing to adapt its equipment to the lessons of the Ukraine war.

Persons: Oleksandr Danylyuk, Danylyuk, Carl von Clausewitz, Biden, It's, Ukraine's, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Business, Royal United Services Institute, Century, [ Armed Forces, REUTERS, Ukrainian, Russian, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Ukraine, Russia, USSR, British, Europe, Ukrainian, Kostiantynivka, Donetsk, Crimea, Soviet, Afghanistan, Russian, Moscow, China, North Korea, Iran, Forbes

☆ How China could take Taiwan without even needing to invade
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

“China has significantly increased pressure on Taiwan in recent years, stoking fears that tensions could erupt into outright conflict. China’s escalating gray zone tactics were on stark display this week as China Coast Guard vessels clashed with Philippine Navy boats in the South China Sea. In the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. Friday, 36 Chinese military aircraft crossed into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says. Meanwhile, a quarantine, rather than a blockade, would not require China to close or restrict access to the Taiwan Strait, the CSIS report notes. Under its claims that Taiwan is Chinese territory, Beijing could require customs declarations to be filed before vessels can call in Taiwan.

Persons: CNN —, Beijing’s, Xi Jinping’s, Bonny Lin, Brian Hart, Matthew Funaiole, Samantha Lu, Tinsley, stoking, Adm, Dong Jun, ”, Dong, China’s, “, Joe Biden, Rong Xu, Carl Schuster, ” Schuster, Alessio Patalano, Sidharth Kaushal, Patalano Organizations: CNN, Communist Party, Center for Strategic, International Studies, China Coast Guard, CSIS, TAIWAN, GUARD, People’s Liberation Army, PLA, Chinese Defense, Philippine Navy, Taiwan Relations, White, PLA Navy, Maritime Safety Agency, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry, Bloomberg, Getty, “, Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center, Taipei, King’s College, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, Imports, Royal United Services Institute Locations: Taiwan, Ukraine, China, Washington, United States, Pengjia, Beijing, Singapore, South China, Manila, Second, Philippines, Taiwan’s, Taiwan Strait, Port, Taichung, Kaohsiung, London, Covid

☆ U.S. and China hold first informal nuclear talks in 5 years, eyeing Taiwan
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing's representatives telling U.S. counterparts that they would not resort to atomic threats over Taiwan, according to two American delegates who attended. The United States and China resumed semi-official nuclear arms talks in March for the first time in five years, with Beijing's representatives telling U.S. counterparts that they would not resort to atomic threats over Taiwan, according to two American delegates who attended. The Chinese representatives offered reassurances after their U.S. interlocutors raised concerns that China might use, or threaten to use, nuclear weapons if it faced defeat in a conflict over Taiwan. The two countries briefly resumed Track One talks over nuclear arms in November but those negotiations have since stalled, with a top U.S. official publicly expressing frustration at China's responsiveness. The Pentagon, which estimates that Beijing's nuclear arsenal increased by more than 20% between 2021 and 2023, said in October that China "would also consider nuclear use to restore deterrence if a conventional military defeat in Taiwan" threatened CCP rule.

Persons: interlocutors, David Santoro Organizations: The, Reuters, People's Liberation Army, State Department, U.S, Pentagon Locations: States, China, Taiwan, The United States, Beijing, Taipei, U.S, Washington, Shanghai

☆ 102-year-old Holocaust survivor is Vogue Germany’s cover star
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor whose family was murdered at Auschwitz is the cover star for the July/August edition of Vogue Germany. In her interview with Vogue Germany, Friedländer said: “I am grateful. To many she is known as a Holocaust survivor. Friedländer told Vogue Germany that she was “appalled” by the growth of right-wing populism and the rise of antisemitic attacks. That this never comes to happen again.”Although more than 100 years old, Friedländer is not Vogue’s oldest cover model.

Persons: Margot Friedländer, née Bendheim, Friedländer, Ralph, ” Friedländer, ”, “, they’d, Kerstin Weng, Mark Peckmezian, Weng, ’ Friedländer, Adolf, Apo, Maria Oggay Organizations: CNN, Vogue Germany, Berlin’s Jewish, Gestapo, Nazi, Vogue, Federal Locations: Auschwitz, Berlin, Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, Nazi Germany, “, New York, Vogue Philippines

☆ What Does Retirement Really Mean?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Some see it as a state of stillness. We asked readers to submit their stories of retirement, and almost 1,500 of you responded. The responses make it clear that retirement is not just one thing. It could be doing nothing, relishing quiet moments in the morning to linger over coffee or walk the dog without rushing. Some were frank about needing time to adjust, saying retirement felt like “jumping off a cliff.” For at least one responder, it has been “a black hole.”

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☆ Plummeting fertility rates are making Asian countries worry about running out of soldiers
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewEast Asia has some of the world's lowest fertility rates, forcing countries in the region to think hard about how to maintain their military strength. This is particularly concerning given the rise in tensions between North and South Korea, and between China and the US. China, Japan, and South Korea have fertility rates below the global replacement rate — resulting in declining populations. South Korea's fertility rate was 0.72 in 2023, the lowest in the world, compared to the global average of 2.2, according to The Lancet. Hughes said that, like South Korea, Japan has been left thinking about how automation and AI can mitigate the worst effects of a shortage of an army-age population.

Persons: —, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Pardo, Chris Hughes, Hughes, They've, it's, China's Organizations: Service, Business, KF, VUB, Brussels School, Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, South Korean, North, - Defense Forces, University, Warwick, Self - Defense Forces, Japan Times, Liberation Army, Nikkei Asia Locations: Asia, North, South Korea, China, Japan, Korea's, VUB Korea, Vrije, North Korea, Korea, Israel, Pardo, Ukraine, Russia

☆ A comprehensive recap of everything that happened on 'House of the Dragon' season 1
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Palmer Haasch | Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Read previewWarning: spoilers ahead — obviously — for all of "House of the Dragon" season one. "House of the Dragon" season two is finally almost here — but it's been a few years since season one aired on HBO. AdvertisementHere's everything you need to know before diving into "House of the Dragon" season two. Paddy Considine as King Viserys in "House of the Dragon" season one. That's about where things end in season one, leaving plenty of aftermath for "House of the Dragon" to tackle in season two.

Persons: —, it's, We've, King Viserys, Rhaenys, Targaryen, Rhaenyra's, Lucerys, that's, Viserys, Rhaenyra, King Jaehaerys, Paddy Considine, Ollie Upton, Jaehaerys, Daemon, Alicent Hightower, Baelon, Prince, Laena Velaryon, Emily Carey, Alicent, Daemon Targaryen, Matt Smith, Velaryon, Steve Toussaint, Craghas Drahar —, Daniel Scott, Smith, Laenor Velaryon, John MacMillan, Corlys, Ser Criston Cole, Otto Hightower, Ser, Otto, she's, all's, Hightower, Ser Criston, Laenor's paramour, Joffrey, they're, Laenor, Tyraxes, Lyonel Strong, Alicent's, King, Lyonel, Harwin Strong, Viserys doesn't, Harwin, Larys, Otto reassumes, Nanna Blondell, HBO Daemon, Lady Rhea, The, Lord Corlys, Baela, Rhaena, Laena, Vhagar, Aemond, Jacaerys, Helaena, Ser Qarl, Visenya, Lucerys —, Vaemond, Driftmark, he's, Simba, Sonoya Mizuno, Mysaria, isn't, Rhaenys doesn't, Ser Erryk, Elliot Tittensor, Elliot Grihault, Emma D'Arcy, Arryn, House Stark, Lord Borros Baratheon, Lord Borros Organizations: Service, HBO, Business, Aegon, Council, Grand, Aemond, Aemond's, Aegon II, Prince Aegon, Small Council, Greens Locations: Rhaenyra, Lys, Vale, Harrenhal, Pentos, Driftmark, Jacaerys

☆ China wants a fleet of aircraft carriers for pride and power, and it's building it at a breakneck pace
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewChina is building a fleet of aircraft carriers, making technological and capability jumps at a breakneck pace. An aerial drone photo taken on May 1, 2024 shows China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, during its maiden sea trials. The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford transits the Strait of Gibraltar, Jan. 5, 2024. For China, having aircraft carriers allows it to enjoy many of those perks. A composite image shows the American flag flying near the bridge of the US Navy's first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and the Chinese flag flying near China's aircraft carrier Shandong.

Persons: —, Pu, would've, Matthew Funaiole, Xi Jinping, Kyle Amonson, Dane Egli, Xi, Funaiole, Gerald R, Navy Petty, Jacob Mattingly, Trenton, Li Gang, Cmdr, Michael Dahm, Peter W, Singer, Guy Snodgrass Organizations: Service, Business, Ford, Getty, China Power, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Jiangnan Shipyard, Getty Images, People's Liberation Army, Communist Party, US Coast Guard, Pacific Affairs, Chinese Communist Party, US Navy, Navy, DoD Aircraft, South China Seas, Pacific, Communication, Trenton Edly, US, New America, Defense, PLA Navy's Locations: China, Fujian, Shandong, Liaoning, Xinhua, Getty Images China, Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Gibraltar, Jan, South, Beijing

☆ A France in Turmoil Mourns Françoise Hardy, Its Voice of Melancholy Cool
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Roger Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was like Françoise Hardy, the wistful singer and songwriter of a certain French melancholy and style, to slip away in the midst of a political storm, for it was never the clamor of power struggles that interested her, but rather an inner world of solitude, love betrayed and loss. With France in turmoil after President Emmanuel Macron’s sudden plunging of the nation into an unexpected legislative election campaign, the country’s leading newspapers nevertheless devoted much of their front pages to Ms. Hardy’s death this week at the age of 80, hailing “the icon” of French music. For Gabriel Attal, the prime minister, it was the loss of “this singular voice of a fierce tranquillity that cradled generations of French people” that felt overwhelming. For Brigitte Bardot, “France has lost with her a little of that nobility, of that beauty and that luminous talent, of that elegance that she conveyed all through her life.”It was as if the country through Ms. Hardy’s life had come full circle, from her birth during an air raid in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, seven months before the city’s liberation, to a moment when a far-right party once led by a man who belittled the Holocaust is now possibly on the brink of power.

Persons: Françoise Hardy, Emmanuel Macron’s, Gabriel Attal, Brigitte Bardot, “ Locations: France, “ France, Nazi, Paris

☆ Plumbing the Depths of Darkness, and Finding Liberation
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Robert Eggers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: What do we fear? You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page. I hear the wind moaning through the pine boughs above, causing the thick trunks to sway and groan, but it is unnaturally still near the forest floor. The air is thick. It is increasingly difficult to walk through the dense, pungent air.

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