Since the election of President Trump,

45-year-old ruling that equal access to a quality education is not a constitutionally guaranteed right.

outsiders,

he stayed in the closet all those years

Female candidates have had experiences similar to his; candidates of color, too. These pioneers

his candidacy is a metaphor for our lives:

As a gay man and an American, I felt a surge of pride.

You can

Dog ignored the rules and then read his fortune: “You will pass a big upcoming test.” He laughed hard, before coughing. His face got redder and redder, but then he smiled. “I better,” he said.

Meanwhile, in early 2016, Ms. Chapman was elected president of the Professional Bail Agents Association, which opposes bail and bond reform.

Dog’s daughter Barbara died in a stolen car in Alaska

No actual deer were harmed in the making of this picture — Dog doesn’t support taxidermy

He said it didn’t matter to him who is in the White House. “

Big Poppa

I’m tested once a week, guys looking to see how tough the Dog is. That’s what the Taser is for.”

I’m praying for you and Beth

Dog says he has 12 children,

In September, three months after the death of his wife, Dog the Bounty Hunter was angling under the Colorado sun at a trout pond in the backwoods of the Rocky Mountains.

The island is very dry, arid even, Mr. Carrión said, but to Diego, it’s home

a big personality — quite aggressive, active and vocal in his mating habits and so I think he has gotten most of the attention.”

Why did he attract so many mates and garner such international attention, especially if another male was more productive?

Another more reserved, less charismatic male — ‘E5’ — has generated about 60 percent,” he said. “

he was one of 15 tortoises in a captive breeding program at the Fausto Llerena

Diego, the Tortoise Whose High Sex Drive Helped Save His Species, Retires

Good job, Diego.

Mr. Simmons, who is 33 and known as Patches,

All David Simmons needs is a chuckle, a smile even, to set the hook and reel people back to his booth with more stinging insults — the weight of a man’s date, or the cheap finish of a woman’s fake gold hoop earrings.

anymore

uts t

Righteousness simply can’t be this transactional and situational.

surrender of the white racist patriarchy.

Indeed, Jim Crow was born out of a fear of “Negro domination” in which white Southerners were deadly afraid that they could be forced to live under black rule in the wake of the Civil War.

Trump like he’s made of rainbows and cotton candy.

President Trump is the new doctrine, and Republicans bought it. There is no amount of cruelty or crudeness he can display that Republicans won’t cheer and defend. His corruption has become theirs.

That which was once forbidden is now embraced. That which they once condemned they cheer.

The terrains of acceptability and respectability have shifted under the American conservative.

acceptability and respectability

o be sure, the confidence gap is hardly the only thing keeping women out of top jobs.

So how do we get hyper-conscientious girls (and boys, as there certainly are some with the same style) to build both confidence and competence at school?

From elementary school through college, girls are more disciplined about their schoolwork than boys; they study harder and get better grades. Girls consistently outperform boys academically. And yet, men nonetheless hold a staggering 95 percent of the top positions in the largest public companies.

In principle, I’m for every story being told, irrespective of its implications, because erring the other way threatens to lead to the sort of censorship-for-the-greater-good you see in totalitarian states. And I have some dumb idealistic conviction that every awkward, heterodox, contradictory truth adds up to create a larger, truer picture of the world.Get our newsletter and never miss an Op-DocWatch Oscar-nominated short documentaries from around the world made for you.Sign Up* Captcha is incomplete. Please try again.Thank you for subscribingYou can also view our other newsletters or visit your account to opt out or manage email preferences.An error has occurred. Please try again later.You are already subscribed to this email.View all New York Times newsletters.

Gettysburg Address or “I Have a Dream” speech — but is there one we could all agree on anymore?

I suspect one reason American life spans are plummeting is a deficiency of meaning: We’ve lost the thread of our story. W

I suppose the worry underlying all these calculated evasions is that a story of, say, a woman fabricating a rape, or someone using a gun to stop a home invasion, or a Muslim being the perpetrator of a mass killing, will be used to undermine larger, more important truths, like the Republican senator Jim Inhofe tossing a snowball on the Senate floor to “disprove” climate change.

Very well, then they contradict themselves.

and assured me that I had been a good influence. We’re now on friendly terms again. This is a very different story, one that awkwardly complicates the previous narrative.

shouldn’t every story get to be told?

are these the stories the public most needs to hear?

It’s not a question of truth but utility: whether particular stories appropriately conform to or inconveniently contradict certain fashionable, or even ideologically mandatory, narratives.

In 17th-century England, work was lauded as a cure for vice, Mr. Spencer said, but the unrewarding truth just drove workers to drink more

An entire generation was raised to expect that good grades and extracurricular overachievement would reward them with fulfilling jobs that feed their passions. Inste

Aidan Harper, who created a European workweek-shrinkage campaign called 4 Day Week, argues that this is dehumanizing and toxic. “It creates the assumption that the only value we have as human beings is our productivity capability — our ability to work, rather than our humanity,” he told me.

In San Francisco, where I live, I’ve noticed that the concept of productivity has taken on an almost spiritual dimension. Techies here have internalized the idea — rooted in the Protestant work ethic — that work is not something you do to get what you want; the work itself is all.

“The vast majority of people beating the drums of hustle-mania are not the people doing the actual work. They’re the managers, financiers and owners,” said David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder of Basecamp, a software company.

ut 20 years ago next month, feels like science fiction from a distant realm

toil glamour,

Gary Vaynerchuk,

Kool-Aid drinking metaphors

Do what you love.”

eWork locat

nd that’s on them

We can’t privilege the incremental over what should be the enduring.

with him, you never know

the tally of Trump’s sins had little bearing on that.

We interpreted fairness as a similarly apportioned mix of complimentary and derogatory stories about each contender, no matter how different one contender’s qualifications, accomplishments and liabilities were from another’s. If we were going to pile on Trump, we had to pile on Clinton — or, rather, keep piling on her.

In retrospect, that’s madness.

unlike the coverage of Clinton, which remained mostly negative.

the number of stories about Trump in the country’s most influential newspapers and on its principal newscasts significantly exceeded what his support in polls at the time justified.

they’re starved of information about the fraudulence of his supposed populism and the toll of his incompetence.

“When you cover this as spectacle,” Rather said, “what’s lost is context, perspective and depth. And when you cover this as spectacle, he is the star.” Spectacle is his métier. He’s indisputably spectacular. And even if it’s a ghastly spectacle and presented that way, it still lets him control the narrative.

century of presidential elections,

We had to weigh a request in line with precedent against a president out of line when it comes to truth. We had to wrestle with — and figure out when and how to resist — his talent for using us as vessels for propaganda.

Trump tortures us.

we

Will we sprint to Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker or Mike Bloomberg for a reaction to what Trump just called one of them and then rush back to him for his response to that response?

“Pocahontas” won’t be lonely for long.

Ben Wiseman

Staffwide training is a way to glean the perspectives of secretaries and custodians, who may not be trained on the simulation.

neutralize an active shooter

months before dozens were killed by a gunman shooting through the windows of a Las Vegas hotel.

Police officers training at a school in Methuen, Mass., in 2014. Real-life drills have logistical and financial drawbacks compared with computer simulations.

rather than leave that to the software.

theme

In “Watershed,

Groff’s use of the second person point of view turns the reader into the character of the dead husband,

As the story continues

person narration

happy endings

However,

Washington liberals like nothing more than spending other people’s money.

Revenue Service (IRS) making expensive parody videos and targeting conservatives

he First Amendment Defense Act, an important RSC Initiative introduced by Representative Raul Labrador, seeks to protect Americans’ right to live according to their beliefs -without discrimination, persecution, or retaliation from the federal government.

by prohibiting federal funds from going to entities, including Planned Parenthood, that provide abortions

This budget would prevent any funding from being directed to admit refugees from Syria and Iraq until the stringent requirements to ensure American’s safety are in place

the blessings of freedom to the next generation

America’s energy potential

a flatter and fairer tax code

President Reagan

regulatory regime

he U.S. Constitution is clear about the role and limits of government. The President has stretched, bent, and broken these limits. Despite the Obama Administration’s best efforts to undermine our nation’s founding principles, however, the strength of our system of checks and balances has been upheld by the courts and continuing congressional oversight.

iberty, opportunity, and security of the American people

DO some people have a special talent for serendipity?

But our desire to acknowledge that is barely stronger than our determination to cut them down to size.

Cleave the cleavage

whatever she needed to hold the audience’s interest.

It’s also hard not to reflect on the relationship between these two movie-industry legends as a case study — upsized for Hollywood, sensationalized accordingly and on display to the entire world — of the currents between almost every parent and child: the pride and the shame; the protectiveness and the destructiveness; the gratitude and the resentment.

it’s impossible not to regard the head-turning coincidence as a heartbreaking confirmation of the singular embrace in which Fisher and Reynolds held, and sometimes smothered, each other.

about her memories of “Star Wars,” about her electric shock treatments, about Diet Coke, about everything

Did I know that they shared a driveway? And that they saw each other daily?

Yellowstone National Park’s best-known wolf, beloved by many tourists and valued by scientists who tracked its movements, was shot and killed on Thursday outside the park’s boundaries, Wyoming wildlife officials reported.

Yellowstone National Park’s best-known wolf, beloved by many tourists and valued by scientists who tracked its movements, was shot and killed on Thursday outside the park’s boundaries, Wyoming wildlife officials reported.

The wolf, known as 832F to researchers, was the alpha female of the park’s highly visible Lamar Canyon pack and had become so well known that some wildlife watchers referred to her as a “rock star.” The animal had been a tourist favorite for most of the past six years.

This year’s hunting season in the northern Rockies has been especially controversial because of the high numbers of popular wolves and wolves fitted with research collars that have been killed just outside Yellowstone in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

Many ranchers and hunters say the wolf hunts are a reasonable way to reduce attacks on livestock and protect big game populations.

The deaths have dismayed scientists who track wolves to study their habits, population spread and threats to their survival.

Wildlife advocates

marking important quo-tations or passages with an asterisk while readingwould help with the problem of interrupting theflow. These students would then go back into thetext to reflect on the importance of the passage andrecord their thoughts in the margins of the textand/or write about these important passages in theirjournals or use some other writing-to-learn strategy

commentscan change with the demands of the text

using annotation as a reading strategy

a visible record of the thoughtsthat emerge while making sense of the reading.

highlight key ideas and write marginalnotes that helped me make connections, pose ques-tions, and interpret ideas.