Burger King s Women belong in the kitchen ad is a cautionary tale, experts say
Emily Heil, The Washington Post
March 8, 2021
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Burger King signage outside its restaurant in Toronto. Burger King is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in Florida, United States. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images
Burger King on Monday served up more than just a whopper of a controversy when it announced an initiative aimed at getting more women into the culinary field. It offered a case study in what not to do when promoting a social cause, marketing experts say.
How the U.S. and China could go to war
Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post
March 9, 2021
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Chinese paramilitary policemen change shifts on the streets of Beijing near the Great Hall of the People Wednesday, March 3, 2021. In a sign of confidence China has reverted back to holding its annual Congress meetings to march this year after delaying them due to the outbreak of the coronavirus last year.Ng Han Guan/AP
It s 2034 and a war is about to begin. A flotilla of three U.S. naval destroyers is furrowing a path through the South China Sea, a contested body of water that is the thoroughfare for a significant proportion of global trade. Near the ominously named Mischief Reef, they encounter and board a Chinese vessel. And then things start to spiral.
Book World: A bizarre, arresting mystery you won t be able to put down
Joan Frank, The Washington Post
March 9, 2021
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By Sara Davis
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Is The Scapegoat, Sara Davis debut novel, in fact a propulsive and destabilizing literary mystery, per its back-cover blurb? It is - and then some. Reading this bizarre, arresting tale, you may not always feel clear about what you are tracking - but you ll absolutely want to track it.
The novel s power and steady control manifest in its voice: that of an eerily inward, single male, perhaps in his 30s, who lives monkishly, working at a Stanford-like university in a fog-veiled setting (California s Bay Area). From the start this nameless narrator exudes shyness, loneliness and social ineptitude; monotony makes him hyper-watchful. But soon his observations begin to disturb and puzzle us. When a colleague named Kirstie (presumably youngish and attractive, though it s never stated) enters the department s break room afte
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Teen Vogue s new editor apologizes for past racist tweets after staff complaints: There s no excuse
Jaclyn Peiser, The Washington Post
March 9, 2021
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FILE: Alexi McCammond speaks onstage at Politicon 2018 at Los Angeles Convention Center on October 20, 2018 in Los Angeles.Michael S. Schwartz/Getty Images
On Friday, Condé Nast named political reporter Alexi McCammond as Teen Vogue s new editor in chief. By Monday, some of the digital publication s staff members raised concerns about her hiring.
In a statement widely shared on Twitter, more than 20 Teen Vogue staff members pointed to anti-Asian racist and homophobic tweets McCammond posted in 2011 that resurfaced over the weekend, noting they were especially concerned given the recent spate of violence against Asian Americans.
Biden signs executive order promoting voting rights on 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Felicia Sonmez and Amy Gardner, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at promoting voting rights amid a push by Republican-led state legislatures to roll back voting access in the wake of former president Donald Trump s 2020 loss and his baseless effort to cast doubt on the integrity of U.S. elections.
The order comes on the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day on which state troopers violently beat hundreds of marchers, including John Lewis, the late civil rights icon and Democratic congressman from Georgia, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.