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It's not freedom when you are advocating taking away the liberty and rights of other human beings. It is not religious, especially not "Christian," to be intolerant and bigoted against your fellow citizens. And while I admire Kirsten Powers for being a reasonable and at times progressive voice at.... |
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Robert Frank and June Leaf in Mabou. Credit Katy Grannan for The New York Times. Sixty years ago, at the height of his powers, Frank left New York in a secondhand Ford and began the epic yearlong road trip that would become ‘‘The Americans,’’ a photographic survey of the inner life of the country.... |
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As the first rays of morning light wash over the eastern seaboard -- a flag is unfurled with broad stripes and bright stars. A soldier stands guard over sleeping heroes - known only to their Maker.
A resting place for the Common Man. A farmer in the heartland gathers his crop as golden wheat shimmers in the breeze. |
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Welcome back to The Verge 's roundup of the most important music from the week that was. I'm Jamieson, I'm still your host, and I'm happy to be taking you into the long weekend with a few new and worthwhile jams. America! Let's do this!
There's a Spotify playlist at the end for your listening.... |
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The winning song will accompany ceremonial proceedings during the pope's visit to the country on July 10 through 12. The song has received major airplay on Paraguayan radio stations and went viral in the country through social media. Some parts of the song , originally published on Youtube in May,.... |
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Rome, July 2 - Pope Francis on Thursday renewed calls for politics to be approached as a form of charity and for world leaders to protect the environment. Francis invited the faithful to pray so that "political responsibility is lived at all levels as a high form of charity," Vatican Radio said. |
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“This whole week,” said President Obama, “I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace.” That was the turning point of last Friday’s eulogy for Clementa Pinckney, the Charleston, S.C. minister who was, with eight of his congregants, murdered by a racist terrorist two weeks ago. It was the moment a memorable speech became a speech for history. |
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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?" asked Frederick Douglass of the crowd gathered at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, N.Y., on July 5, 1852. "I answer," he continued, "a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which lie is the constant victim. |
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"The ecological crisis is essentially a spiritual problem." These words spoken by an Eastern Orthodox theologian, Metropolitan John Zizioulas, at the Vatican news conference on the papal encyclical are profoundly important. The release of the encyclical was soon followed by a new study that.... |
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Chief of Mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana Jeffrey DeLaurentis (L) talks to Cuba’s interim Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina in Havana July 1, 2015. REUTERS/Enrique de la Osa. The United States and Cuba formally agreed on Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations on July 20, setting up.... |
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AsOne Knocks Out Susan Boyle for the No. 1 Spot After 35 Weeks in That Position; Album Receives Great Reviews From Music Critics.
NASHVILLE, TN, Jul 02, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- History-making duo AsOne -- the first-ever interracial female duo in music history across all genres -- knocks.... |
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