A decade after Texas passed landmark legislation to address flawed forensics, the courts have refused to apply it as intended.
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So, this was true once:
A 2023 Column Contest grand-prize winner, Laurence Pevsner’s Sorry Not Sorry investigates why we’re sick of everyone apologizing all the time—and how the collapse of the public apology leaves little room for forgiveness and grace in our politics and culture.
Last month, a Korean pop star and a legendary MMA fighter found themselves doing the same thing: apologizing for their apologies. BTS’s Suga had drunk driven an electric scooter, while Ronda Rousey had shared a Sandy Hook conspiracy video. They both immediately apologized—and then they both had to apologize again, for the shortness and shallowness of their initial apologies.
1. Are you sure you’re really trapped? You don’t look that trapped.
2. But you’re too smart to be trapped in a well.
3. Yeah, I was trapped in a well once too. It was pretty dank. But the well just went away when I made sure to sleep more every night, eat protein at breakfast, and cold plunge every ninety minutes.
4. Are you sure this is even a well?
5. It could be worse. You should do some gratitude journaling.
6. Have you tried getting out once in a while? Call a friend. Go to a movie. Rent a luxury sedan, drive yourself to a remote Airbnb in the woods, and go on a three-day-long hiking adventure searching for the perfect gnarled walking stick.
7. Nobody wants to be around you if you’re just gonna dwell on this well stuff.
8. Have you even bothered to look outside of the well? It’s beautiful out. The sky is cyan, the sun is shining, and the dewpoint is a perfect fifty-four degrees. All of us out here love how it’s just sultry enough to skip the lip balm but not so much that our hair’s all frizzy.
9. Maybe there’s something you need to learn from this well, like resilience?
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When racist pogroms flared up across Britain in the Summer, many people highlighted the similarity to the riots which broke out in 1919 in British port cities. But they were alike in other ways too, not least the role that sections of the labour movement’s leadership played in promoting the racist tropes which motivated the […]
