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Radio Conciencia: Florida Community Station Aims to Keep Immigrant Farmworkers Safe During Hurricanes

We look at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in southwest Florida, which runs a radio station called Radio Conciencia that helped immigrant farmworkers prepare for Hurricane Milton and other storms. Established in 2003, the community radio station broadcasts in Spanish, Creole and other languages to share crucial information during natural disasters. “This is always scary for us whenever a hurricane hits in our area,” says organizer Gerardo Reyes Chavez.

How to Find a New Hobby

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America has a love affair with hobbies, my colleague Julie Beck wrote in 2022. Part of this is an obsession with what scholars have called “productive” or “serious” leisure, which puts efficiency and progress ahead of less clearly defined accomplishments such as rest and time with loved ones.

Two of the Weirdest Albums of the 1970s

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It’s Friday, and in the world of politics, it’s been a week that—to me, anyway—seems like a year. Monday was the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.

‘Politics Can Do Strange Things to Demented People’

In a race where only a few states are up for grabs, Pennsylvania may determine the fate of the 2024 election. Polls suggest that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are virtually tied in a fight for the state’s 19 delegates. Both Democrats and Republicans are pouring millions into messaging through advertisements, town halls, and large rallies.

The Lessons of Aging

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Over the past few months, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about old age. Earlier this year, most Americans seemed to share my fixation, as voters debated President Joe Biden’s mental fitness for a second term.

This Time, Bob Woodward Gets It Right

At this late stage in Bob Woodward’s career, it would be possible to publish an entertaining anthology of the negative reviews of his books. Although there’s an ongoing debate about the journalistic merits of Woodward’s reportorial mode, he has no doubt succeeded in bringing out the vitriolic best from the likes of Joan Didion, Christopher Hitchens, and Jack Shafer.
A few years back, I wrote to Woodward, hoping to get his help with an article I was reporting.

“The Apprentice”: New Film Opens Despite Trump’s Attempts to Block Anyone from Seeing It

We speak with the director of The Apprentice, “the movie Trump doesn’t want you to see,” which opens today in theaters despite legal threats from the former president. The film looks at how Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn, former chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. He went on to represent Trump as he built his New York real estate empire, and “was the person who sort of built Trump, as a person, as a brand, as an identity,” says Abbasi.

Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize, Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago

A Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, has won the Nobel Peace Prize as fears grow of a new nuclear arms race. The head of the group has compared Gaza today to Japan 80 years ago when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We feature a Democracy Now! interview with Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and an anti-nuclear activist, and get response from Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, a U.

“Death Is Everywhere”: Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza and Lebanon Condemns Israeli Attacks on Hospitals

As the Israeli military continues its assaults on Gaza and Lebanon, which have included the targeting of hospitals and ambulances and the killing of medical personnel, among other violations of international law, we speak to a doctor currently volunteering in Beirut. Dr. Bing Li is an emergency medicine physician and U.S. Army veteran who also volunteered at Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza earlier this year.