Showing results for "To the Death" in Politics & Government

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for 23 hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt?

Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Contrary to the popular view of the troll as an exclusively anonymous online prankster, Hannan asserts that trolls have emerged from the cave, so to speak.

A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Doyle writes beautifully, trenchantly, near-irrefutably' Richard Dawkins 'Thought provoking and entertaining. Andrew Doyle's intellect dazzles' Jimmy Carr 'A lovely blend of righteous polemic and wishful thinking' Julie Burchill 'A magisterial read...

The Frozen To Death Podcast investigates the cause of the deadly 2021 Texas power outage. What happened? Who profited?

First and foremost, this is a show about comic books. Where it goes from there, not even we know.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Osama bin Laden, Qasem Soleimani: assassination—the murder of a specific individual by an organized conspiracy in pursuit of political ends—has rarely failed to grip the imagination. In this incisive new history, Simon Ball shows how targeted political murder has become a tool of democratic states but also a key strategy of those who wish to topple them.

The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. and a 2024 presidential candidate makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victimhood culture. Hardship is now equated with victimhood. Outward displays of vulnerability in...

"Families Blame Each Other after Afghan Child Bride Burns to Death" is from the July 18, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mujib Mashal and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"China Sentences Man to Death for Espionage, Saying He Sold Secrets" is from the April 19, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Louisiana Floods Lead to 6 Deaths" is from the August 15, 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Christine Hauser and narrated by Kristi Burns.

For decades, government pundits have dismissed these "coincidental" deaths, even regarding them as "myths" as "urban legends." Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these 'coincidences'. After all, events don't "consult the odds" prior to happening; they simply happen. Then someone comes along later and figures out what the odds of it happening were. Some of the deaths seemed purely coincidental; heart attacks, hunting accidents.

Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski's most deeply held values were put to the test when she arrived as a travel nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After serving in Iraq, she was back on the front lines - and this time, she found, the situation was even worse. Rooms were filthy, nurses were lax with sanitation measures, and hospital-acquired cases of COVID-19 were spreading like wildfire.

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration. In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to...

"Eagles of Death Metal Return to Paris for Concert" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Alissa J. Rubin and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Star’s Death Is Believed to Be Suicide" is from the Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Liam Stack and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"To Be Happier, Start Thinking More About Your Death" is from the Health section of The New York Times. It was written by Arthur C. Brooks and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Supreme Court to Hear Two Major Death Penalty Cases" is from the June 06, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Adam Liptak and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"2nd Officer's Trial over Freddie Gray's Death Nears as Baltimore Tries to Move On" is from the May 09, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jess Bidgood and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Shooting in North Carolina Draws Comparisons to Trayvon Martin's Death" is from the August 11, 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Daniel Victor and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"British Restaurateur Sentenced to 6 Years after Peanut Allergy Death" is from the May 23, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Kimiko De Freytas Tamura and narrated by Kristi Burns.