Important | 1 | | Today in Tulsa, Oklahoma, President Donald Trump will revisit his favorite place: the center of attention. His first in-person rally since March 2, held in the city that saw a 1921 massacre of Black Americans, puts him squarely in the sights of the nationwide anti-racism movement. He’s also challenging those who worry about holding public events that could spread contagion, so much that one sued to stop it, but lost in Oklahoma’s Supreme Court. Setting the stage, the president threatened protesters, praised Tulsa’s mayor for not imposing a curfew and told supporters to “enjoy themselves.” | |
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| 2 | | He will not be moved. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, whose office is prosecuting associates of President Donald Trump, is refusing to leave office despite an announcement of his resignation by Attorney General William Barr. Noting that he was appointed by federal judges, Berman said he’d leave only after the Senate confirmed his successor. The standoff has added to Trump opponents’ assertions that Barr is politicizing the Justice Department during a week in which former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book described obstruction of justice as the administration’s “way of life.” Check out five voices resetting America on OZY. | |
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| 3 | | While Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wasted no time in dishing out bellicose pronouncements, China waited until today to point the finger at its neighbor for inciting Monday’s bizarre clubs-and-rocks encounter at 14,000 feet that left 20 Indian soldiers dead. But Beijing still hasn’t enumerated its losses, which may be a sign that it’s giving more than lip service to de-escalation. On the other side of the coin, the clash has given hope to U.S. hawks anxious for New Delhi to lend its weight to a wider global confrontation. Read this OZY feature about the woman confronting India’s citizenship law. | |
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| 4 | | Many progressive felt crushed when their champion, Sen. Bernie Sanders, dropped his repeat presidential bid after a string of early primary triumphs. That led to an angry defeatism some feared could keep many home in November and lead to Donald Trump’s reelection. But hope now springs from the same well that vaulted liberal light Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into Congress: Bronx principal Jamaal Bowman has a shot at taking out veteran Rep. Eliot Engel in Tuesday’s primary, while in Kentucky, the country’s most powerful Republican senator, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, could well end up facing another Black progressive this fall. | |
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| Intriguing | 1 | | The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week that prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees came too late for Layleen Cubilette-Polanco to celebrate. The transgender woman died in New York City’s infamous Rikers Island prison in 2019. Today, her family and friends can thank fellow trans person Aimee Stephens, whose firing from her job as a Michigan funeral director led her to bring a lawsuit against her former employer. Those faced with similar discrimination can now rely on the common law and the common sense of a conservative chief justice and the Congress of 1964, which couldn’t have imagined its Civil Rights Act would open an even wider umbrella than expected. | |
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| 2 | | Tumso Abdurakhmanov managed to beat back his attacker with the hammer that was meant to kill him. Authorities in Sweden, where the Chechen blogger is seeking asylum, report the attempted assassination was the work of Abdurakhmanov’s semiautonomous Russian homeland, the target of many of his posts. He’s the latest in a series of Russian dissidents across Europe targeted for violence — a trend that European experts say can often be traced back to the Russian secret service. Still, investigations continue into how a deeply indebted Kazakh-born Russian became a long-range, blunt-force weapon. OZY examines Russia’s reach into elections. | |
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| 3 | | If you’re like the average consumer, there’s a very good chance you have slaves in your workforce. No, not directly, but there are some 27 million people around the world in bondage, including people in the Congo producing coltan for your smartphone and cotton for your shirt in Uzbekistan, OZY reports. U.S. State Department human-trafficking fighters teamed with nonprofit Made in a Free World to push back. Slavery Footprint is a website and an app that, with your handy device, shows you how your consumer choices support forced labor — and how to make informed choices that could eventually benefit more-responsible sourcing. | |
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| 4 | | Watch any pre-pandemic real estate porn and it’s all you’ll see: rooms that “flow” and walls that buyers and/or renovators feel compelled to destroy with sledgehammers. But the pandemic has changed that, journalist Kyle Chayka writes. We want to build those walls, erect barriers to keep contagion on one side and to prevent the third-grade Zoom class from disrupting the fifth-grade Zoom class in what was once called “the next room.” In the workplace, it’s leading to windowed cubicles and “the 6-foot office,” with each workstation inside an autonomous circle. This OZY op-ed wonders why working from home was impossible when disabled employees sought it. | |
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| 5 | | Last year, Maya Moore shocked the basketball world by announcing she’d be sitting out the 2019 season. Moore was on top of her game but said she had to focus on family. She had racked up wins, championships and awards, including WNBA 2011 Rookie of the Year, but she spent the season fighting for the release of a family friend imprisoned on charges of a violent burglary. Spurred on by a deep sense of Christian social justice, Moore has poured her passion into one case — with hopes it will start a wave of innocent inmate releases. OZY looks at the future of organizing. | |
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