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1 month ago | 
thespread.media | Rachel Baker |Val Monroe |Heather Richardson
Two veteran editors read it ALL and deliver to you only the best: juicy yarns, big ideas, deeply personal essays, and hot goss—aka, the full Spread. Plus: original interviews, podcasts, and more. Come hungry!Want the full Spread, with all the fixins, every week? Become a paid subscriber here.
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1 month ago | 
newyorkcartoons.com | Jason Chatfield |Ann Telnaes |Heather Richardson |Steven Levitsky
(Do me a favour and just click the title of this post so it doesn’t cut off while you’re reading it. Email apps are the worst.)I’m still reeling from the documentary I saw last night at the IFC, featuring former Washington Post cartoonist and now Substacker, . The documentary is called Democracy Under Siege and was completed before the election last November. Its prescience is chilling.
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2 months ago | 
publicseminar.org | Alex Rossen |Katherine Kelaidis |Heather Richardson |Ihar Babkou
Putin’s Retrotopia | Canva / Generated by Magic Media AI Image GeneratorIn September 2024, the United Nations convened for the Summit of the Future. In it, diverse global communities came together to dream of the utopia tomorrow might offer. Yet as the Russian state declares its desire to restore the territorial holdings of the old Russian empire, these same global communities face a difficult quandary: Why is the past more tantalizing than the future?
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theashlandchronicle.com | Alex Baumhardt |Heather Richardson |Robert Reich |Raphael Rashid
Editor’s note: The Capital Chronicle has launched a $10,000 end-of-year fundraising campaign to help us continue our first-class coverage next year. A lot is a stake, and there’s a long legislative session in 2025. We’re completely dependent on donor dollars, which are tax deductible. Please contribute to us if you can.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theashlandchronicle.com | Heather Richardson |Robert Reich |Raphael Rashid |Josh Butler
Oregon’s largest investor-owned electric utility has enjoyed a 34% rise in power demand from industrial customers such as semiconductor manufacturers and data centers in the last five years, requiring the company to buy more, and more expensive, energy and build more infrastructure.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theashlandchronicle.com | Heather Richardson |Robert Reich |Raphael Rashid |Josh Butler
The fires that burned down the Santiam Canyon over Labor Day weekend in 2020 were a disaster for the communities from Idanha all the way to Stayton. Recovery started right away, but rebuilding homes and public infrastructure has been tragically slow, delaying the healing of the community. Likewise in the burned forests; healing started right away, but logging those burned forests delayed healing. Oregon forests — from the coast to high desert — need fire to be healthy.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Mike Harrington |Justin A. Joyce |Dwight A. McBride |Heather Richardson
Jackson, Mississippi (2017) | Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress / Public DomainJackson is the capital city of the state of Mississippi and was named after the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson (who was responsible for the Trail of Tears—one of many forced relocation marches for people who were Indigenous to the land—and a slave owner).
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
mariashriversundaypaper.com | Heather Richardson
“The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the most influential spiritual voices of our time. She is the author of numerous bestselling books including The Places That Scare You and Living Beautifully.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
mariashriversundaypaper.com | Heather Richardson
This week at The Sunday Paper, we're sharing a new documentary, insightful podcast, delicious recipe, and a book that move the needle and spark inspiring change. We hope these suggestions open your heart and mind and encourage you to come together for meaningful conversations!What We’re ReadingFor the last several years, we at The Sunday Paper have looked to Nedra Glover Tawwab to help us navigate our lives and relationships.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Alexa Joy |Asha Hassan Nooli |Heather Richardson |Claire Potter
Breakdancers at Brooklyn Bridge subway stop, City Hall Park, Lower Manhattan (2015) | Jeffrey Zeldman / CC BY 2.0The inclusion of breakdancing in the Paris Olympics this year turned out to be nothing short of a spectacle. From the beginning, the sport was met with hostility and confusion. Australian squash player Michelle Martin, frustrated after years of lobbying for the inclusion of her sport, called breaking’s debut a mockery of the Olympics.
