Rep. Lauren Boebert. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Rep. Lauren Boebert was reading a passage from Romans that referred to "wanton killing." But she pronounced the word like "wonton" — the Chinese dumpling. Earlier this year, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had a similar slip-up with "gazpacho" and "Gestapo." Rep. Lauren Boebert confused the words "wanton" and "wonton" […]
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The Dumpling Shop Owner at the Center of an Authoritarian Crackdown
The experiment in democracy that is modern Cambodia seems to have hit a bump in the road. Actually, if Cambodian democracy were a car, it would be in a rice-field ditch and the villagers (and international observers) smelling smoke. Twenty-five years after the United Nations Transitional Authority ended its stewardship of the country, and despite […]