| A Thanksgiving lesson for the #MeToo movement Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:08 PM PST ![A Thanksgiving lesson for the #MeToo movement]( "A Thanksgiving lesson for the #MeToo movement") When he proclaimed the national holiday called Thanksgiving in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln did more than ask Americans to be grateful for God's blessings during a time of civil strife. The #MeToo movement has now helped lift a social stigma for many abused women while bringing to light past wrongs.
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| Europe ponders prospect of life after Merkel Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:26 AM PST ![Europe ponders prospect of life after Merkel]( "Europe ponders prospect of life after Merkel") Earlier this spring, when President Trump threatened to drop out of a major climate accord and berated fellow NATO members on his first trip to Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rallied the continent. Implicit in that message was the reassurance that it was Ms. Merkel who would shepherd Europe in the reshuffled order. Germany found itself in uncharted waters, facing its worst political crisis since World War II. Many have begun to see Merkel as a weakened caretaker chancellor with an uncertain future.
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| Pixar's Day-of-the-Dead film 'Coco' aims to shake up image of Mexico Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:15 AM PST ![Pixar's Day-of-the-Dead film 'Coco' aims to shake up image of Mexico]( "Pixar's Day-of-the-Dead film 'Coco' aims to shake up image of Mexico") Nearly a month after its release in Mexico, the new Pixar film "Coco," out Nov. 22 in the United States, is already the country's top-grossing animated film in history. Recommended: How much do you know about Mexico? At a time when the US is casting a bright spotlight on Mexico and Mexican-Americans, frequently stereotyping them as everything from drug-runners to overall "bad hombres," Coco is an animated salve of sorts.
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| From Texas to Congress: Will 'rare' friendship cost politicians their careers? Posted: 21 Nov 2017 10:59 AM PST ![From Texas to Congress: Will 'rare' friendship cost politicians their careers?]( "From Texas to Congress: Will 'rare' friendship cost politicians their careers?") In that pause for breath, bipartisanship went viral in the form of two young Texas congressmen taking a road trip together. Will Hurd, a Republican and former undercover CIA operative from Helotes, and Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat and former software company founder from El Paso, spent two days in a car with each other – and with Williberto, the trip's piñata mascot – talking music, food, their first cars, and politics. "One reason it captured so much attention is because it's so rare," says Harold Cook, a Texas Democratic strategist.
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