Hundreds of millions of Americans will gather Thursday to watch football, catch up with family and friends and eat themselves into a food coma — and it will be a miracle.One year ago, a return to traditional Thanksgiving celebrations seemed unimaginable. Covid-19 was still raging across the country. Vaccines had been developed, but no Americans…Continue Reading
A number of non-governmental organizations that have long worked to rebuild communities in countries beset by violent and intractable conflicts — places that have collapsed under the weight of mass atrocities, political assassinations, authoritarian take overs, and widespread citizen violence — have shifted focus to a new subject: The United States.For a country that has…Continue Reading
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Lawyer Cleta Mitchell was on the infamous Trump phone call trying to bully Georgia officials into overturning the election. Now she’s advising the agency responsible for making elections more secure.Nov. 25, 2021 Read MoreContinue Reading
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. The three white men who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 while he was jogging were found guilty of felony murder by a jury of their peers. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on the reaction to the…Continue Reading
This is the perfect time of year to consider things we’re thankful for, and although we’re facing a period of political tumult, there are still many things and people in politics deserving of our gratitude. Ahead of any holiday festivities you may have planned, here are just a few things that have me saying, “Thanks.”Progressive…Continue Reading
November 25, 2021 6:00 AM The Pilgrims Signing the Compact, on board the Mayflower, Nov. 11th, 1620, engraving by Gauthier (Library of Congress) On Thanksgiving, take care to remember that this pilgrim republic, fearfully and wonderfully made, was made for better and higher things. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W illiam Bradford, the Pilgrim leader who organized…Continue Reading
A poem for late autumn. There — a ruby-throated hummingbird in the raspberry beebalm, like a word just now on the tip of your tongue. The square inch of air it hovers in is shirred, and when it flies, is bare. Minutes later a hummingbird moth, its wings like the froth of tiny waves. Bird…Continue Reading
Janis and Uri Segal celebrate Thanksgiving with a Zoom call with their family before a small dinner together in Detroit, Mich., November 26, 2020. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) Let’s just come right out and say it: Last year’s socially distanced holiday family gatherings were awful. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F rom the perspective of Thanksgiving 2021, we can…Continue Reading
Let us again celebrate so that we might preserve, and feast so that we might build. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T hanksgiving is a conservative holiday. Not so much in the mode of contemporary partisanships of “Left” and “Right” but in its broadest, purest sense. Ultimately, true conservatism seeks to preserve. It desires to safeguard and…Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, November 24, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Tribal animists influenced by Hindu extremists in central India last month forced Christians to exhume the body of a 25-year-old man buried on relatives’ private land because they didn’t want a Christian interred in their village, sources said.Laxman Markam had been dead for two days when…Continue Reading