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News Roundup: Trump gets booed, Tony Blair has thoughts, and DO NOT TAKE HORSE MEDICINE

In the news today: Donald Trump held an Alabama rally to tell stories and spread COVID … and got promptly booed for asking his loyal audience to get vaccinated. Former British prime minister Tony Blair resurfaced 20 years after his support for invading Afghanistan to criticize Biden for his pullout, because sure, that’s a guy we’ve all been waiting to hear from.

Parents Are Not Okay

It was two weeks, originally. Who couldn’t do two weeks with the kids at home? Two weeks to bend the curve. It was simple.

All These Simultaneous Disasters Are Messing With Our Brains

Last week, the psychologist Steven Taylor was at a socially distanced get-together with some relatives and their friends when the conversation turned to the chaos in Afghanistan. Someone mentioned the sickening footage of desperate Afghans clinging to American military aircraft as they departed. Then one man made a remark that caught Taylor off guard: The videos, he said, were funny. Others agreed.Taylor was appalled. It was one of the most disturbing things he’d heard all week.

Why Is Hugh Jackman Still Underappreciated?

Hugh Jackman has spent a surprising amount of his career floating in water tanks. In Reminiscence, the new sci-fi noir thriller on HBO Max from writer and director Lisa Joy, the actor plays Nick Bannister, a former soldier turned private investigator of the mind, probing people’s memories while they’re submerged in a big, futuristic bath.

Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good

As a child in eastern Kentucky, I often helped my grandmother work in her large garden, lush with tomatoes, beans, okra, potatoes, and peppers. Granny was born in 1909, 62 years before me. As we hoed the long rows, I loved to hear her stories of living through the Great Depression and World War II.

The Noisy Minority

The connection between Republican political views and skepticism about COVID-19 precautions, such as mask mandates and vaccine passports, is clear but not intuitive.While not all unvaccinated people are Republicans, nearly half of Republicans have yet to receive even a single shot, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll from late July.