Jeffrey Goldberg, Amanda Knox, John Green
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg has released nearly all of the transcript of the Signal group chat that he was included in, where Trump administration officials planned a deadly military strike on Yemen earlier this month.
In an interview with Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes, Goldberg defended his decision to release the Signal chat that has put a spotlight on how the administration handles sensitive information.
“The White House issued some sort of anodyne statement about how this is sensitive and it shouldn’t be out, but there was no specific request on data,” Goldberg said. “So we decided since they said that this is not a problem and that there’s nothing secret or classified in it, we decided that we should put it out and let people decide for themselves.”
Read or listen to the full interview.
Critics and the internet are angry about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex — again.
This time, the viral uproar is about Meghan’s Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, which premiered on Netflix in early March. The lifestyle show follows Meghan as she offers tips on homemaking and entertains celebrity guests at a beautiful California estate.
Netflix has renewed the show for a second season slated to stream in the fall.
The first season, though, was met with harsh critiques. Some reviews labeled the show as being out of touch, while memes and TikToks lambasted the actress-turned-princess’ on-screen persona.
So why all the hate, the snarky memes, the takedown pieces?
Leslie Gray Streeter, a columnist for The Baltimore Banner, thinks she knows why. Earlier this month, she published a column headlined “The real reason people are mad at Meghan Markle’s new lifestyle show.”
She joined Morning Edition host Michel Martin to discuss why she believes Meghan is being subjected to such criticism.
Meghan Markle’s Netflix show angered critics. This columnist says she knows why
Different people have different reference points for John Green. He is most famous as the young adult author who wrote the massively popular book The Fault in Our Stars, which was turned into a movie by the same name. But then there are the millions of people who know and love him from his many YouTube channels, especially Vlogbrothers, and Crash Course, which he does with his brother Hank.
John Green’s latest project is another book, but it’s way different from the coming-of-age stories that catapulted him into the culture. It’s titled Everything Is Tuberculosis, and it is, as advertised, a nonfiction account of the most deadly disease on the planet, and how simple it would be to wipe it out — if societies just made it a priority.
But the truth is, this book makes sense coming from John Green. Because everything he creates — books, essays, YouTube shows — they are all designed to make you engage with the broader world and to care about other people.
A Chinese scholar who studies the United States has some opinions about the early moves of the second Trump administration.
Now the U.S. has a new president, so we asked to meet Da Wei again to hear what he’s thinking now.
A Chinese scholar has some thoughts about what Trump is doing to the U.S.
American Amanda Knox was catapulted into global infamy after being accused of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, during a study abroad program in Perugia, Italy. Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison before her conviction was overturned, and she was eventually exonerated. Still, Kercher’s murder remains the defining moment of Knox’s life.
“Two very young women went to Perugia and one of them didn’t get to go home and one of them came home completely and utterly changed,” she says. “It’s a grieving process for me for both of us.”
Why Amanda Knox returns to Italy — and how she talks with her daughter about injustice
Some of the most touching scenes in Việt and Nam happen underground, when the two young coal miners at the center of the film embrace each other in silence. Those are moments when they can love each other freely.
But their relationship almost takes a backseat in the film, which will hit select theaters in the U.S. on Friday. Set in 2001, it follows the lovers’ quest to find the body of Nam’s father — a soldier who died during wartime in Vietnam — and Nam’s decision to leave the country for a better life.
Read the full interview here.