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Sofia News Agency 

Hungary May Sue EU for Border Protection Expenses

Hungary is considering legal action to compel the European Union’s executive commission to reimburse the costs it has incurred for border protection, according to a minister's statement on Thursday. This move could intensify Hungary's ongoing dispute with the EU over its stringent immigration and asylum policies, reports AP. The Hungarian government has directed its Minister for European Affairs to enter into negotiations with the European Commission to address the issue....

Vox 

How do kids have fun? Inside the state of child’s play in 2024.

Do kids still play? Specifically, do they play in active, imaginative, kid-directed ways, off screens and in the real world? It’s a question I’ve gotten in many forms since I started this newsletter, from the reader who asked if kids are still learning “Ring Around the Rosie” to the dad who wondered if it’s possible […]

The New York Review of Books 

Savvy in the Grass

Some botanists maintain that peas are capable of associative learning, others that tropical vines have a sort of vision. If plants possess sentience, what is the morally appropriate response?

The New York Review of Books 

The Divinity Within

Sometimes I write to try to figure something outI hadn’t understood before, that somebody else has said.I’ve no idea what “the divinity within” might mean,And yet I’ve heard it said so often that it must mean somethingEveryone recognizes, whether they know what      it really means or not.It could mean we’re created in God’s image, if […]

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from Mojave Ghost

Now there are creases that curve from the flanges of my nose to the scissure of my lips. And a deep cleft, like something left by a hatchet, above the bridge of my nose. The brusque, impersonal obstinacy of aging. Weeding around the bushes in front of our house, I breathe in the slightly licorice […]

The New York Review of Books 

An Entry of One’s Own

A collection of excerpts from women's diaries written over the past four centuries offers a vast range of human experience and a subtle counter-history.

The New York Review of Books 

The End of a Village

Jonathan Schell published “The Village of Ben Suc” in the July 15, 1967, issue of The New Yorker when he was twenty-three years old. (That same year the article came out as a book, published by Knopf.) I’d been Schell’s classmate and friend since we were very young, and in 1967 I had thought we […]

The New York Review of Books 

The Posthumous Autobiographer

Michel Leiris’s literary memoirs belong to a form almost unrecognizable today; they are driven not by plot—the narrative arc—but by words.

The New York Review of Books 

Bring Me to the Window

and ask, when does it come to you? Is it a blue mountain or a blushing expanse? Are you most preoccupied with the details or the general shape? In most cases, I am unambiguous. I research from before and wait for movement or light to have a sense. Don’t have a sense. Do you? Yesterday […]

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A Prophet for the Poor

In order to build a mass movement for economic justice, Reverend William Barber argues, we need to let go of the idea that poverty is an exclusively Black or urban issue.

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The Bliss and the Risks

The painter Paula Modersohn-Becker’s ascension to greater visibility raises questions about how we assess artistic talent, how reputations are made, and how we reevaluate once-neglected artists, particularly women.

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Duterte’s Cruel Tricks

Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing is both a reporter’s notebook and a contemporary political history of the Philippines.

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China’s Iconoclast

Perry Link and Wu Dazhi’s biography of China's most famous dissident, Liu Xiaobo, doubles as a history of Chinese political thought and activism over the past half-century.

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Are Sheriffs Above the Law?

For many of us who grew up watching the weekly adventures of Robin Hood on a black-and-white television screen, the word “sheriff” conjures the dogged lawman of Nottingham chasing the noble bandit through Sherwood Forest. Today’s most recognizable sheriff may be the rabidly anti-immigrant Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. Thrown out of office by […]

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Elegy for a ‘Separate Civilization’

Scott Preston's The Borrowed Hills is the strangled, savagely beautiful swan song of the world of the Cumbrian peasant farmer.

The New York Review of Books 

Living the Nakba

In his memoir Going Home (2020), the Palestinian human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh recalls taking a walk around Ramallah and standing outside the house where his father, Aziz Shehadeh, was murdered. “In my sixty-sixth year I’ve come back to visit where you last lived to tell you how much I miss knowing and befriending you,” […]

Adweek.com 

How Ahold Delhaize Creates Custom Retail Media Plans Using Social Media and CTV

While it might not be a household name in most American homes, Ahold Delhaize USA is one of the biggest grocery players in the country. Based in the Netherlands, parent company Ahold Delhaize has a presence in Indonesia and Europe as well as the U.S. Ahold Delhaize USA has about 2,000 stores between Georgia and...

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Intrepid Travel Targets Climate Week NYC Attendees With Biggest Ad Blitz Yet

Last year, sustainable tour company Intrepid Travel spent $1 million on an ad blitz during Climate Week NYC. This year, the brand is doing it again but with a $5 million budget and a campaign called "Only Intrepid." The goal of last year's campaign, "Good Trips Only," was to expand the Australia-based company's brand awareness...