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Important clergy symposium hosted by FASPE and the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. November 10 at YDS. https://www.theologyandpolicy.yale.edu/blog/public-theology-in-a-time-of-authoritarianism-a-clergy-symposium

Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism: A Clergy Symposium — Center for Public Theology & Public Policy
Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism is presented in partnership with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics . The program will explore ethical possibilities of religion in today’s world, amidst politicization of religious communities, the deepening of moral and cul

A look at the system for distribution of direct media subsidies developed for the government of Denmark, which spends ~0.2% of its GDP on direct media subsidies (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2…

As the U.S. starves its public media, Denmark wants to figure out a better way to subsidize private news publishers
"A foundation can pick winners on the basis of its own values and priorities and support them from private sources. But if the state does the same with public funds, we risk the appearance (or even worse, the reality) of politicians picking winners on the basis of their own ad hoc, pa…

#writingcommunity Please, I'd love your thoughts, insights, advice. I have two books trad published, very different, different publishers. One is a big publisher and has been in print for 30 years. But even with that, what I am writing now is so out there, I don't think a trad publisher is going to pick it up. So where and how to publish? 1/2

Despite some polls showing the public would blame the party in power for a shutdown this fall, Trump is betting that he can frame the public debate around Democrats’ demands — and their readiness to risk the type of shutdown that many of them have opposed in the past.
A senior White House official told Semafor that in the administration’s view, “the aggressor ultimately is blamed by the American public for a shutdown.”
“And what you’re seeing here with the Democrats is, they have…

Why Trump welcomes this government shutdown fight
The president has already gotten everything he wants from the Republican Congress.

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Q&A with Variety's new publisher and co-president, Dea Lawrence, on her career, on AI and digital creators being "crucial" for the outlet, and more (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dea

Variety's Publisher and Co-President Dea Lawrence Sets Her Agenda
Top Variety business executive Dea Lawrence talks about her plans to push the venerable brand forward.

The Trump administration is dismantling the last of the public commons.
It’s cutting billions to state programs tracking disease,
repealing emissions and drinking water regulations,
revoking hundreds of millions in funding for life-saving research,
canceling local food programs for schools and food banks,
rolling back vaccinations,
and shutting down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Commi…

“Make America Healthy Again” Aims to Make Public Health Your Private Responsibility
The message coming from the Trump administration is: “Take care of yourselves — because we won’t.”…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …

RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC’s new guidance on vaccines and autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

Business Insider joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace pilot, which compensates publishers when their content is used in AI-generated results (Barbara Peng/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/announcing-our-new-ai-partnersh…

Announcing our new AI partnership with Microsoft
This pilot creates a framework for a lasting, usage-based partnership between publishers and technology platforms to ensure quality content is credited and rewarded.