we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness mitch mcconnell, it s time for you to use the word, gun. they won t make schools safer. that is a lie. that is not true. it will save lives. your ideas have been shown to get people killed. do not tell me that th
Welcome to arts twenty one today we check out the life sequel there. Is just. The event is held every spring it is really popular with the reading public because it would simply takes a lot of Walking Around to see and do everything but its all really interesting. And there is celebrated writers lots of new releases in great literature from a midsized country the Czech Republic is the Twenty One Thousand likes the book fairs country of honor just good luck i think its great that people can discover all kinds of books here but they may not be familiar with. So lets get lost in good books but first a brief review of the state of publishing. No
signs of gloom and doom at the lips of book for despite the fact that a major german Book Wholesaler recently the clear bankruptcy turned over stagnant but this time the book fairs bigger and more international than ever. Canadas making its debut here with publishers from across the country and theyve brought along books in a wide variety of genres
larger argument. we have to essentially play this out to the hilt. so destroying that pipeline has severe effects in every single sector of our society. but in a university, as someone who has the privilege of of teaching the youth of america on a daily basis, when you re in a classroom and you re looking out on 35 students when i teach my intro to politics classes and they re from all over and we have diverse class backgrounds, we ve got diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, we ve got diversity when it comes to generational status, some people are first generation, some people are third, some people are tenth. like myself. i m more than tenth generation american. so we have to understand it s more than just, you know, what i teach on the page. it s the conversations that students had. the reason why the price tag of universities is so high is you re paying to interact with so many students from around the country and around world where you re not going to get that in your local neigh
change now, the way war reporting has changed now, is that there are more women. more people from different backgrounds and different class backgrounds. that contributes to an ability to empathize, and an ability to get into spaces we have not been able to get to before. and we can tell those important stories. and we are also grateful that you are all telling these really important and difficult stories. appreciate and admire you all. molly hunter and hind hassan and sabrina tavernise. thank you all. from those amazing women to another, the high drama lightning round in this year s national spelling bee. we will tell you how many words they champ spelled in 90 seconds when the 11th hour comes back.
a modern country to the i. world yet the nation is deeply divided for her book marsha gessen conducted interviews with russian men and women who were born in the one nine hundred eighty s. and lived with an inner turmoil to this day. i wanted to look at that generation i wanted to look at people who grew up in the ninety s because i think it s a very specific condition that hasn t been described that the condition of being a child in an extremely unstable society they need to remember the collapse of the soviet union when they were just seven years old they needed to be from different backgrounds from different cities but also different class backgrounds with a different relationship to power i want to to use them in the sense as a vehicle to understanding some of the politics both of the perestroika error and of the ninety s i. guess since family immigrated to the us from the soviet union in the one nine hundred eighty s. jewish intellectuals who saw no future there. was fourteen at t