- 27th September
2011 - 27
- 26th September
2011 - 26
…despite the small gains, a solid half of the country still rarely, if ever, picks up a book for pleasure. In the same press release, the N.E.A. said that “The U.S. population now breaks into two almost equally sized groups—readers and non-readers.”
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(Source: thesmithian)
- 23rd September
2011 - 23
Former President Bill Clinton is offering up a plan to fix the economy and push the United States into the future in a new book to be published by Knopf in November.
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art: painting by Ashley Cecil
(Source: thesmithian)
- 9th September
2011 - 09
Today in politicians playing tennis: Michelle Obama at the U.S. Open. (Photo: Mike Segar/Reuters)
(via apsies)
- 8th September
2011 - 08
- 8th September
2011 - 08
The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black Panthers—the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there’s no resolution in sight.
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art: painting by Dan White
(Source: thesmithian)
- 23rd August
2011 - 23
