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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Gates Notes</span></p><p class="caption">Bill Gates shares his favorite books about tech.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Bill Gates <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-book-recommendations-in-2018-2018-12">likes to read and recommend books</a>.</li><li>This year, ahead of choosing <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612950/10-of-bill-gatess-favorite-books-about-technology/">MIT Technology Review's breakthrough innovations</a>, Gates read 10 books on tech that helped inform his choices.</li><li>Here are Bill Gates's 10 best books on tech.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul><p>Like <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-successful-people-read-2017-7">most successful people</a>, Bill Gates is an avid reader.</p><p>The tech billionaire pours through 50 books a year, choosing mostly nonfiction books that teach him something new, he said in a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-bill-gates-reads-50-books-a-year-2015-11">2016 interview with the New York Times</a>.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-bill-melinda-gates-drive-daughter-to-school-2019-4">Something interesting happened when Bill Gates started driving his daughter to school</a></em></p><p>This year, Gates took a special interest in books about technology to help him curate <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2019/">MIT Technology Review's 10 breakthrough technologies of 2019</a>. The philanthropist chose which gadgets or inventions will have the most impact on society. The tech ranged from cancer vaccines to robot hands to a lab-grown burger.</p><p><span>"Reading is my favorite way to learn about a new subject - whether it's global health, quantum computing, or world history," Gates told the <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612950/10-of-bill-gatess-favorite-books-about-technology/">MIT Technology Review</a>.</span></p><p><span>Here are Bill Gates' top 10 books about technology in 2019:</span></p><h2><span>1. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598">Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark</a> </span></h2><h2><span>2. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Should-Eat-Meat-Evolution-Consequences-ebook/dp/B00BY2M0KQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=should+we+eat+meat&amp;qid=1556631319&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Should We Eat Meat? by Vaclav Smil</a></span></h2><h2><span>3. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Contain-Multitudes-Microbes-Within-Grander/dp/B01FY85L38/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=i+contain+multitudes&amp;qid=1556631339&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong</a></span></h2><h2><span>4. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/dp/1439170916/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1556631362&amp;sr=1-1-catcorr">The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee</a></span></h2><h2><span>5. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Beautiful-Forevers-Mumbai-Undercity/dp/081297932X">Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo</a></span></h2><h2><span>6. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Homo-Deus-Brief-History-Tomorrow/dp/0062464310">Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari</a> </span></h2><h2><span>7. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Enlightenment-Now-Science-Humanism-Progress/dp/0525427570">Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker</a></span></h2><h2><span>8. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Energy-Without-Hot-Air/dp/0954452933">Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David MacKay </a></span></h2><h2><span>9. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Energy-Myths-Realities-Bringing-Science/dp/0844743283">Energy Myths and Realities by Vaclav Smil</a></span></h2><h2><span>10. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Most-Powerful-Idea-World-Invention/dp/0226726347">The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen </a></span></h2><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p class="tagline">Get the latest Microsoft stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/MSFT-Quote"> here.</a></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jk-rowling-harry-potter-net-worth-author-millions-fortune-lifestyle-2019-4">J.K. Rowling, who denies being a billionaire, made $54 million last year. Here's how the famous 'Harry Potter' author makes and spends her fortune.</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

The 10 best books about technology, according to Bill Gates

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Donald Trump is suing the Pulitzer Prize Board for awarding coverage of his ties to Russia.</li><li>The board said two independent reviews concluded the prizes should stand.</li></ul><p>In an overlooked lawsuit, Donald Trump's lawyers are exhibiting a habit from his White House days: Hunting for anonymous sources.</p><p>In transcripts of four depositions obtained by Business Insider, Trump's attorneys had the opportunity to question journalists about a mystery that has vexed them for years: Who are the anonymous consultants who reviewed the Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of Trump's connections to Russia?</p><p>The depositions were taken last year for a lawsuit Trump brought in December 2022, suing the Pulitzer Prize Board, which administers American journalism's highest honors. He accused the board and its 18 members of defaming him by awarding the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting to The Washington Post and The New York Times for their coverage of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the country's connections to Trump's presidential campaign and administration.</p><p>In his lawsuit, Trump complained that journalists and the Pulitzer board conspired together as part of a larger "Russia Collusion Hoax," which the former president claimed was "fully debunked."</p><p>In reality, investigations from Robert Mueller and a US Senate intelligence committee found <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-russia-government-contact-timeline-2018-7">numerous connections between Russian efforts and the Trump campaign</a>, even as they did not conclude that Trump personally fostered them.</p><p>Much of Trump's lawsuit focuses on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pulitzer-board-rejects-trump-rescind-awards-new-york-times-post-2022-7">a July 2022 statement from the Pulitzer board</a>, where it announced the prizes would stand after <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-demanding-nyt-and-wapo-journalists-get-their-pulitzers-rescinded-2021-10">Trump called on it to rescind the awards</a>.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.pulitzer.org/news/statement-pulitzer-prize-board-2">The board announced</a> that it commissioned "two independent reviews" of the work submitted by the Times and the Post that won the 2018 prize, which "were conducted by individuals with no connection to the institutions whose work was under examination, nor any connection to each other."</p><p>Each review independently concluded the prize-winning stories were not "discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes," the board said.</p><p>To this day, the Pulitzer board has not disclosed who did the reviews and what they consisted of. Nor have its members explained why they are keeping the information a secret.</p><p>Trump's lawyers are trying to get to the bottom of it. In the depositions Business Insider obtained, Trump's lawyers question the defendants — all journalists — about what they describe as their "use of anonymous sources" with the Pulitzer statement.</p><p>"Without identifying those individuals, I guess we have no way to verify the truth of the statement," Trump's lawyer R. Quincy Bird asked investigative journalist Katherine Boo in her deposition, taken in August 2023. "So Ms. Boo, I'll ask it directly, who conducted the external review?"</p><p>At each turn, a lawyer for the Pulitzer Board members stopped their clients from answering.</p><p>The hunt for the identity of the Pulitzer board's reviewers demonstrates how some of Trump's attitudes toward media — an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-white-house-bunker-leaker-treason-executed-book-2021-7">obsession with anonymous sources</a> and paranoia of supposed shadowy figures he claims to believe are conspiring against him — have leaked beyond the political arena and into <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7">his lawsuits</a>.</p><p>Chad R. Bowman, an attorney at the law firm Ballard Spahr, said in a deposition transcript that the identities of the people who conducted the reviews for the Pulitzer board were subject to "First Amendment privilege to protect sources."</p><p>"I'm going to instruct the witness not to answer on the basis of First Amendment privilege," Bowman said in the deposition.</p><p>Trump's lawyers indicated they disagreed with Bowman's assertion, but haven't yet filed any court motions asking the judge to force the defendants to identify the reviewers — a step normally taken when lawyers don't get the answers they want during a deposition.</p><p>Marjorie Miller, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pulitzer.org/news/journalist-marjorie-miller-elected-administrator-pulitzer-prizes">the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes</a>, declined to comment on the lawsuit.</p><p>"We are not at liberty to discuss this case," she told Business Insider.</p><p>The journalists whom Trump's lawyers deposed did, however, offer some characterization of the "consultants" who conducted the reviews. Miller, who sat for a deposition on May 23 last year, testified the people were "widely recognized as leaders" in American journalism.</p><p>Boo told Trump's lawyers that she was not involved in the first review, which took place in 2019. She said she had confidence in the results of the second review, which took place in 2021, and took additional information into account.</p><p>"It was a person who had no relationship and person who had the stature and, I believe, ethical clarity and the moral rigor to be frank with the board should problems with those submissions be submitted," Boo said.</p><h2>The depositions shed light on the Pulitzer's secretive reviews</h2><p>Trump's attacks on journalism remain a pillar of his political message. And he has extended his language railing against a "witch hunt" against him to include his many legal problems — including <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-criminal-cases-ranked-how-much-legal-trouble-2023-8">four separate grand jury criminal cases</a> — as he runs in the 2024 presidential election. In 2023, a PAC Trump controls <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-legal-fees-pac-donor-money-personal-cases-2024-2">gave over $260,000 in donor money</a> to Weber, Crabb, &amp; Wein, the law firm representing him in the Pulitzer case, according to a Business Insider analysis of disbursement records.</p><p>The Pulitzer Prize Board is hosted by Columbia University, in Manhattan, which manages the small organization's payroll and offers institutional support. But Trump brought his lawsuit in Florida, arguing the state has jurisdiction in the defamation lawsuit because he lives at Mar-a-Lago.</p><p>His lawsuit also points out that the Pulitzer board includes Neil Brown, a Florida resident who serves as the president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and worked as the top editor at the Tampa Bay Times.</p><p>A judge overseeing the case blocked Trump's lawyers from issuing subpoenas for depositions and records for the merits of the case, allowing only jurisdictional discovery.</p><p>The defendants — which include New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick, USA Today editor in chief Nicole Carroll, former Columbia University president Lee Bollinger, former Los Angeles Times executive editor Kevin Merida, and novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, among others — all submitted paperwork describing their lack of connections to the state of Florida.</p><div type="image" title="marjorie miller" height="6602" width="8803" msid="108310028" hostid="261"></div><p>Trump's lawyers deposed Miller, along with three board members who served as cochairs when the 2022 statement was issued: Katherine Boo, New York Times opinion columnist Gail Collins, and Associated Press standards editor John Daniszewski.</p><p>Those depositions were supposed to focus on obtaining information to bolster Trump's jurisdictional arguments. But his lawyer's questions frequently went outside those lines, Bowman complained during them.</p><p>During Miller's deposition, for instance, Bird attempted to ask questions about how the Pulitzer board came to hire her in the administrator role.</p><p>"Counsel, I don't want to engage in argument with you," Bowman snapped. "I disagree that you can ask any question whether or not it's relating to jurisdiction because it has some tie to a document."</p><p>Though the Pulitzer board members declined to identify who conducted the reviews, their depositions shed some light on the process.</p><p>Daniszewski said the Pulitzer board had "engaged two outside consultants" toward the end of the tenure of the administrator who preceded Miller, the publisher Dana Canady, to consider "five or six complaints" about the prizes. Some of those complaints were about historical issues, and one was about Trump's complaint about the prizes to the Times and the Post.</p><p>"They recommended to the board that no action be taken and that the basis for the complaint was unfounded," Daniszewski said in his deposition.</p><p>As more complaints from Trump rolled in, the Pulitzer board debated whether to conduct another review. Boo, Miller, and Daniszewski all said the board gets occasional complaints and doesn't always find them worth addressing, but the Pulitzer board took Trump's criticism seriously.</p><p>"Not everyone on the board agreed that the facts in the case warranted external review, and there was a debate, and the majority decided that it did warrant external review," Boo said.</p><div type="image" title="2018 pulitzer prize winners" height="3258" width="5570" msid="108310031" hostid="261"></div><p>Because Trump and his lawyers had explicitly demanded that the Pulitzers rescind the prize — and made a series of specific complaints in a series of letters — the board decided to commission a reexamination of the articles.</p><p>"Even though we believed that we had already looked at it, we thought we should do our diligence and reexamine the question because it was coming from him," Daniszewski said.</p><p>The board members said that the people who conducted the two independent reviews of the Times' and Posts' Pulitzer submissions did not live in Florida, nor did they have an affiliation with the Times or Post. Collins said she recused herself from the 2018 deliberations for the national reporting prize because the Times was in contention, and had been recused from the subsequent discussions about independent investigations.</p><p>"You get up, you sit in the hallway for a very long time, but that's what I did basically," Collins recalled in her deposition, recounting the 2018 board meeting where they deliberated the awards.</p><p>"At some point, somebody opens the door and says come on back in, we've awarded the prize to 'X,' and then you come back and the next series comes up," she later added.</p><h2>Trump's other lawsuits over 'Russiagate' have failed</h2><p>Trump filed an updated version of the suit in December 2023, further arguing he was subsequently vindicated by Justice Department Special Counsel John Durham, who investigated the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/durham-special-counsel-report-fbi-investigation-trump-russia-links-2023-5">roots of the FBI's investigations</a> into the 2016 Trump campaign's links to Russia.</p><p>Lawyers for the Pulitzer board members asked the judge to dismiss the case, noting that a different judge dismissed a separate "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/a-federal-judge-throws-russia-trump-lawsuit-fbi-hillary-clinton-2022-9">Russian collusion hoax" suit Trump filed against Hillary Clinton and James Comey</a> and issued nearly $1 million in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lawyers-sanctioned-by-courts-election-lawsuits-2022-12">sanctions against the former president's lawyers</a> in that case.</p><p>"It is a petty effort by one of the most powerful men in the world to silence speech he dislikes, filed in a county where neither he nor any of the defendants lives or works or has any meaningful connections whatsoever," they wrote.</p><p>The lawyers filed a separate motion for Brown, arguing the judge should dismiss the suit because the awards were simply not defamatory.</p><p>Bird didn't respond to multiple requests for comment. Chad Bowman, a Ballard Spahr attorney representing the Pulitzer board members, directed Business Insider to court filings.</p><div type="image" title="donald trump at mar a lago florida" height="1875" width="2500" msid="108310032" hostid="261"></div><p>Trump has also previously filed separate lawsuits against the Times and Post in the United States over opinion articles about his 2016 campaign's ties to Russia, as well as a UK lawsuit against Christopher Steele, who wrote a dossier he falsely claimed formed the basis of Mueller's inquiry. All of those lawsuits have been dismissed by judges as meritless.</p><p>Bird also demonstrated familiarity with the vast universe of media criticism about press coverage of the so-called "Russiagate" scandal. He asked about former Times journalist Jeff Gerth's four-part examination in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.php">the Columbia Journalism Review</a> of the coverage, which argued that the media organizations misused anonymous sources and withheld information in ways that misled readers. Daniszewski said he was familiar with the critique, and that Gerth was not one of the prize reviewers.</p><p>The depositions sometimes touched on other subjects, such as the perennial debate of whether aspiring journalists should go to graduate school. While some of the four journalists obtained master's degrees, none went to graduate school for journalism.</p><p>"I will say as an aside, it is remarkable the — I guess the achievement of several people that we've deposed that have not gone to J-school have found themselves on the board is interesting to me," Bird mused in one deposition.</p><p>The journalists also had a chance to reflect on the experience of being deposed.</p><p>"I appreciate your time," Bird told Boo at the end of her deposition. "You've now had your first deposition, I hope you look upon it fondly."</p><p>"Hopefully it's my last," Boo said.</p><p><em>Disclosure: Ballard Spahr represents a coalition of over 30 media organizations, which includes Business Insider, in media access litigation in Donald Trump's criminal cases in Florida and Washington, DC.</em></p>

Trump's lawyers are hunting for the identities of secret consultants who approved Russiagate Pulitzer Prizes

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5508457680/sizes/l/in/photostream/">The White House</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Four years ago, a few months before he got re-elected, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/us/politics/obama-seeking-re-election-asks-for-patience.html">President Obama read a book</a> on the science of decision-making that he now considers one of his favorites.</p><p>The book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1477059791&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=thinking+fast+and+slow">"Thinking, Fast and Slow,"</a> by <span>Daniel Kahneman, </span>features insights into the pitfalls of human rationality that might just transform how you think about intelligence.</p><p>Obama's recommendation comes alongside <a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/10/president-obama-reading-list/?mbid=social_twitter">nine other books</a> on the president's list of required reading in the November issue of Wired.</p><p>Others include "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro and "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity" by Katherine Boo.</p><p>In "Thinking, Fast and Slow,"Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning psychologist and inventor of behavioral economics, explores two modes of thinking, which he calls System 1 and System 2.</p><p>System 1 thinking is gut-driven, instinctual. System 2 is thoughtful, reflective. Too often, Kahneman notes, people's decision-making gets mired in System 1 when really they should be taking a few seconds to study the problem at hand.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Amazon</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Several months after Obama read "Thinking, Fast and Slow," CNN's Christiane Amanpour <a href="http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/11/president-obama-a-slow-thinker/">interviewed Kahneman</a> and asked him whether he thought the president was a System 1 thinker or a System 2 thinker.</p><p>"He is a slow thinker. He deliberates," Kahneman said. "He doesn't follow his gut immediately. He considers things. He is very thoughtful."</p><p>Deliberation may seem like a presidential trait, but Kahneman is quick to dispel the idea that commanders-in-chief must be System 2 thinkers. George W. Bush was a classic System 1 thinker, he says. "<span>President Bush was proud of acting on his intuition, acting on his gut."</span></p><p><span>If you're curious which kind of thinker you might be, consider the following puzzle:</span></p><p><em>If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?</em></p><p>System 1 thinkers are more likely to rely on their snap judgment to supply the answer of "100 minutes." But the answer is actually "5 minutes," since it doesn't actually matter how many machines you have. Each machine takes 5 minutes to make a widget.</p><p>Don't feel bad if that problem stumped you. It's designed to exploit gaps in System 1 thinking. By drawing your eye to the quick succession of 5s, you naturally look to make the same connection in the solution. It's only through the slower, more deliberate thinking involved with System 2 that brings the correct answer into focus.</p><p>Obama's recommendation seems to suggest that even those of us who aren't making careful choices in the Oval Office could stand to think more with System 2.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/celebrities-politicians-obama-last-state-dinner-mario-batali-2016-10">Obama pulled out all the stops for his last state dinner, including food prepared by Mario Batali</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="JhNmF1NjE6Orf06ulOavCUXu9o3pGSGv" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Trump vowed to commute Ross Ulbricht's sentence at the Libertarian National Convention.</li><li>Libertarians view Ulbricht's life sentence as a symbol of government overreach.</li></ul><p>Donald Trump made an address at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday, promising to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the jailed founder of the infamous online drug marketplace Silk Road.</p><p>"If you vote for me, on Day One, I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht," Trump declared to enthusiastic applause from the crowd in Washington, DC. </p><p>The move to highlight Ulbricht was strategically catered to Libertarian voters.</p><p>Ulbricht, now 40, who was imprisoned for life in 2015, is a hero of the US libertarian movement.</p><p>The Libertarian Party, with its long-standing advocacy for drug legalization and criminal justice reform, has consistently lobbied for Ulbricht's release, viewing his life sentence as a symbol of government overreach.</p><p>Ulbricht became interested in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/">libertarian values</a> at university, according to a Wired report, where he discovered the ideas of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, an advocate of the moral purpose of free-market capitalism and staunch opponent of interventionism. Ulbricht embraced these ideas of uncompromised freedom, per Wired.</p><p>"When I created Silk Road, I wasn't seeking financial gain,"<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/convicted-silk-road-mastermind-please-leave-me-my-old-age-2015-5"> Ulbricht's </a><a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2086668-gov-uscourts-nysd-422824-251-1.html"><u>wrote in a heartfelt letter</u></a> to the trial judge in 2015.</p><p>"I created Silk Road because I believed at the time that people should have the right to buy and sell whatever they wanted so long as they weren't hurting anyone else," he wrote.</p><p>In 2015, he was given<a target="_blank" href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-manhattan-federal-court-life-prison"> life in prison without the possibility of parole</a>. He was also fined $183,961,921.</p><p>Ulbricht is being held at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson.</p><p>The majority of goods sold on Silk Road were illegal hardcore drugs, said the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York at his trial.</p><p>"Silk Road was supposed to be about giving people the freedom to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness," wrote Ulbricht. "While I still don't think people should be denied this right, I never sought to create a site that would provide another avenue for people to feed their addictions."</p><div type="image" title="Members of the Libertarian Party stand in chairs while chanting and demanding the release of Ross Ulbricht during the party's national convention" height="1333" width="2000" msid="110444542" hostid="261"></div><p>Trump, who was loudly <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-confronted-with-loud-boos-and-heckles-at-libertarian-convention-2024-5?mrfhud=true">booed and heckled</a> during much of his speech at the Libertarian National Convention, did manage to partially win the audience around by committing to free Ulbricht.</p><p>Katherine Yeniscavich, a Libertarian Party national committee member, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/25/trump-commute-ross-ulbricht-sentence-libertarian-convention-00160025">told Politico</a>, "It's one of the things we wanted from his first term."</p><p>In addition to the Ulbricht pledge, Trump made further pledges, promising to include a Libertarian in his cabinet and others in senior administrative positions if elected.</p><p><em>Correction: May 30, 2024 — Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story called Ross Ulbricht "unjustly imprisoned" without making clear it was characterizing the view of his supporters.</em></p>

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The air is crisp and it is the perfect weather to cozy up with a book and maybe brave the chilly winds to attend literary fests in the comfortable winter sun.<br />
<br /> ZEE JLF exclusively shared the shortlist of all the amazing books and authors discovered and loved over the 10 years of the Festival starting 2006 for you to play catch-up to, with <keyword id="824043" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Business-Insider">Business Insider</keyword>.<br />
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There are of course categories over which the favorites have been divided and here they are:<br />
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1) <strong>Female Writers -</strong> ‘Badass <keyword id="624" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Women">women</keyword> writing for/about badass women’ includes:<br />
<br /> -Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by <keyword id="2704735" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anita-Anand">Anita Anand</keyword>, which looks at the life of an Indian princess and goddaughter of <keyword id="6377522" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="queen">Queen</keyword> <keyword id="5657" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Victoria">Victoria</keyword> who went on to become a leading figure in the British suffragette movement.<br />
<br /> -The <keyword id="4049788" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="essential-gloria-steinem">Essential Gloria Steinem</keyword> Reader: As If Women Matter, a compilation of the feminist icon's writing; two books discussing sexuality and gender in the Middle East.<br />
<br /> -Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middles East Needs a Sexual Revolution by <keyword id="845515" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mona-Eltahawy">Mona Eltahawy</keyword> and Sex and the Citadel by <keyword id="2171668" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shereen-El-Feki">Shereen El Feki</keyword>, which offer a provocative and revealing look into this touchy issue.<br />
<br /> - Postmodern feminist classic The Handmaid's Tale by the brilliant <keyword id="221634" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Margaret-Atwood">Margaret Atwood</keyword><br />
<br /> -'We Should All Be Feminists' by <keyword id="4049784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="chimamanda-ngozi-adhichie">Chimamanda Ngozi Adhichie</keyword>, which was featured in Beyonce's 'Flawless' and is required reading in Swedish schools.<br />
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2) <strong>Memoirs - </strong>Known to inspire the most latent of dreams, learning from the experiences and challenges of others.<br />
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-Jung Chang's family saga Wild Swans; Molly Crabapple's stunning memoir-manifesto.<br />
<br /> -Drawing Blood; In Other Words by <keyword id="89243" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jhumpa-Lahiri">Jhumpa Lahiri</keyword>, a nuanced look into learning and writing in Italian.<br />
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-Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom, an autobiographical work of fiction of a boy's account of life with his mentally ill mother.<br />
<br /> -Helen Macdonald's <keyword id="157266" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Samuel-Johnson">Samuel Johnson</keyword> Prize-winning H is for Hawk.<br />
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3)<strong> Hindi and <keyword id="52565" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="urdu">Urdu</keyword> writers -</strong> Instrumental in shaping the outlook of the regional literature. Some of the Festival team's favorite books include:<br />
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-Saadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu writer seen by many as a master of the short story.<br />
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- The Mirror of Beauty, originally published in Urdu, is an epic novel set in the last days of the Mughal empire.<br />
<br /> -Krishna Sobti's <keyword id="4049785" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="zindaginama">Zindaginama</keyword>, a classic of Hindi literature.<br />
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-Abdullah Hussein’s The Weary Generations, an instant bestseller in Urdu, now in its 40th edition and one that’s never been out of print.<br />
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4) <strong>African literature- </strong>Moving across seas to the literary genius of <keyword id="12925" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Africa">Africa</keyword>, they explored the continent to bring out prominent writers:<br />
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-Ben Okri's Man Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road.<br />
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-Taiye Selasi's debut Ghana Must Go chronicles the lives of a Ghanaian-Nigerian family across generations and continents.<br />
<br /> - The brilliant Half of a Yellow Sun by <keyword id="538649" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</keyword>.<br />
<br /> -The first installment of Zimbabwean-born <keyword id="99628" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alexander-McCall-Smith">Alexander McCall Smith</keyword>'s beloved No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.<br />
<br /> - African Psycho by Congolese writer <keyword id="2861092" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alain-Mabanckou">Alain Mabanckou</keyword>, described by <keyword id="425741" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Economist">The Economist</keyword> as the 'prince of absurd'.<br />
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-Open City, the bestselling debut by Teju Cole who's been hailed as ‘the WG Sebald of the 21st century’.<br />
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5) <strong>Non-fiction- </strong>Chronicling real events and places, often more bizarre and unique than imagination itself, is a talent not bestowed to all.:<br />
<br /> -Maximum City by <keyword id="80841" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="suketu-mehta">Suketu Mehta</keyword> offers a revealing portrait of <keyword id="6356654" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bombay">Bombay</keyword>.<br />
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-Raghu Karnad's spectacular debut Farthest Field explores the often overlooked role of Indian soldiers in WW2 through the lives of his grandfather and grand-uncles.<br />
<br /> -The award-winning Behind the Beautiful Forevers by <keyword id="3916987" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Katherine-Boo">Katherine Boo</keyword> is another searingly honest look into Mumbai.<br />
<br /> -Jerusalem: The Biography by bestselling writer and historian <keyword id="1359419" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Simon-Sebag-Montefiore">Simon Sebag Montefiore</keyword>.<br />
<br /> -Peter Frankopan's fascinating The <keyword id="48523" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Silk">Silk</keyword> Roads: A New History of the World<br />
<br /> - <keyword id="5487" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="William-Dalrymple">William Dalrymple</keyword>'s Return of a King: The Battle for <keyword id="6354541" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="afghanistan">Afghanistan</keyword>, winner of the Hemingway Prize and <keyword id="4049790" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="kapuciski-prize">Kapuściński Prize</keyword> in 2015.<br />
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<br /> This year, the Festival, which opens from January 19 to 23, 2017, has its speaker’s table going full force with participation from noteworthy names, such as Man <keyword id="56252" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Booker-Prize">Booker Prize</keyword> winners Paul Beatty, Richard Flanagan and <keyword id="721253" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alan-Hollinghurst">Alan Hollinghurst</keyword>, prolific Indian-American writer <keyword id="157413" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chitra-Banerjee-Divakaruni">Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni</keyword>, famed <keyword id="6354291" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="kannada">Kannada</keyword> writer S.L. Bhyrappa, poets Anne Waldman, Gulzar, <keyword id="10355" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Javed-Akhtar">Javed Akhtar</keyword> and <keyword id="4049789" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="kate-tempest">Kate Tempest</keyword> and politician and polymath <keyword id="42749" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shashi-Tharoor">Shashi Tharoor</keyword>.<br />
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Chris Christie confronts a spectator at an MLB game in Milwaukee.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Chris Christie made headlines again on Sunday after accosting a fan at a Cubs game, getting into the fan's face <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-chris-christie-confront-a-cubs-fan-at-a-milwaukee-brewers-game-2017-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">while holding a tray of nachos</a>.</p><p>In the video that surfaced of the incident, Christie can be heard telling the fan, "<span>You're a big shot," before heading back down to his seat.</span></p><p><span>Now, the fan that reportedly was approached by Christie, Brad Joseph, has come forward and explained his side of the encounter with a post <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10108426546036010&amp;id=1920702" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">written on his Facebook page</a>.</span></p><p><span>"So yesterday was an interesting day," Joseph's note begins, before going on to explain some of the details about both how the incident developed and what he's thought of the fallout.</span></p><p><span>As Joseph tells it, the night started out as any other night at the ballpark, with a good game and solid seats, until "At some point around the seventh inning, Katherine nudged me and said, 'That was Chris Christie who just walked by...'"</span></p><p><span>A few people were already heckling Christie, and Joseph decided would join in yelling, "You suck!" and "Hypocrite!" in his general direction. Christie was making his way back to his seat, but paused, and the confrontation began.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"I was seated at the end of our row, and Christie turned around and made his way up the few steps that separated us. As he approached he looked at me and said 'Have another beer,' which caused me to laugh, since I thought it was a decent comeback under the circumstances despite the fact we hadn't been drinking at all, but Christie quickly made it clear that he wasn't joking around. He came a few inches from my face and began to call me a 'big shot,' and a 'tough guy,' and asking 'what are you gonna do now?' He was close enough that I could feel his breath on my face as he shouted at me. He never denied being a hypocrite. Then, his right foot stepped well outside of the aisle and into our row, and he began to hit my leg with his knee in an aggressive fashion.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">At this point I heard someone ask 'what is going on?' to which I turned and calmly replied, 'well, this guy is accosting me.' Christie was incredulous at this characterization of the interaction, despite the fact that he was the one who initiated physical contact, and despite the fact that his tone and conduct were intended to provoke a reaction to which his security detail could respond. I sat calmly in the back of my chair as Christie became frustrated with my refusal to turn a verbal confrontation into a physical one. After calling me a big shot a few more times, he relented and turned away, as I thanked him for his opinion."</p><p>After that, Joseph recounts some of Christie's security detail coming over and "<span>threatening all of us with being 'locked up,'" before walking away. Joseph went on to say that while he regretted saying "You suck!" he did not regret calling the governor of New Jersey a hypocrite. He also said that after the incident many strangers online have assumed him to be a liberal, but that is not the case.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>"I am a registered republican and I voted for Donald Trump, but my politics do not fit conveniently into one box or another. I do think that Chris Christie is an embarrassment to the party and his ties to Trump during the campaign gave me great cause for concern. During a discussion last year before the election, where I argued that Hillary Clinton ought to be prosecuted for her corruption, a friend challenged me about corruption within the republican party, and specifically asked about Chris Christie. I said then that it doesn't matter which party someone is from, the system breaks down if we ignore hard evidence of corruption because the person happens to share our opinions on some other issue. That friend told me today that I put my money where my mouth is by calling out Chris Christie in public."</span></p><p><span>It was by no means the first time Christie had been chided in public, or even at a baseball game. 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