Moderates’ Revenge: The Warren Pile-On Begins

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Wednesday Oct 16, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [China Weaponizes Education to Control Tibet]( Beijing has been undercutting Tibetan monastery education while dramatically increasing enrollment at state-run boarding schools. China Global Television Network (CGTN) recently released a video report from a Lhasa high school. The reporter, wide-eyed and cheery, speaks about the facilities and curricula with unrestrained exuberance. A young schoolgirl talks of wanting to continue her education outside of Tibet because she thinks she’ll learn more. The student’s comments were no coincidence. CGTN is the foreign service of the Chinese Communist Party-controlled CCTV network and the closest thing China has to Voice of America. The video suggesting that young Tibetans want to leave their homeland to study in other parts of China fits a narrative Beijing is carefully building as its latest weapon to shape Tibet’s future. [READ MORE]( 2 [Opinion]( [Opinion]( [The Elizabeth Warren Pile-On Begins]( For the first time, her fellow Democratic presidential contenders treated Warren like the front-runner. Adrienne Elrod, a Democratic strategist who was a senior adviser for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016, writes: Call me naïve, but going into Tuesday night’s debate, I predicted that very few candidates would choose to mount attacks against Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her bold, progressive policies. Maybe it’s because her favorability numbers are so high. Maybe it’s because, while her policies like the wealth tax and Medicare for All have little chance of becoming law under a Mitch McConnell–led Senate, they are still seen as smart, lofty goals that would help millions of Americans who are hurting in this country. Boy, was I wrong. [READ MORE]( 3 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [Can Egypt’s Oldest Islamist Movement Survive a Brutal Crackdown?]( In the face of strict control and internal dissent, the once-influential organization that briefly ruled Egypt is now struggling for survival. Just days after hundreds of people marched through Cairo and other cities calling for the Egyptian president to step down, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi settled into a chair alongside his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump and addressed the rare explosion of public anger against his rule. “As long as we have political Islam movements that aspire to power, our region will remain in a state of instability,” el-Sissi said on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. “But I want to assure you, especially in Egypt, the public are refusing this kind of political Islam.” In two sentences, the Egyptian leader summed up the narrative that secured his rise to power and has defined his six years as head of state: The greatest threat to the Arab world’s most populous nation is the Muslim Brotherhood, and he is the man to guarantee stability. But there was no obvious link to the Brotherhood. Instead, the protests appeared to be a spontaneous outburst of anger over economic grievances and alleged government graft. [READ MORE]( 4 [Good Sh*t]( [Remembering the Impact of the First Atomic Bomb Test]( Twice per year, visitors can walk the grounds where the world’s first nuclear device was exploded. 5 [The Huddle]( [Will This NBA Prospect Ditch Blue Bloods for an HBCU?]( Makur Maker, a 6-foot-11 standout whose life has spanned the globe, is considering Howard University — and that could spark a sea change. 6 [Flashback]( [‘You and What Army?’: How Viktor Leonov Did What Custer Couldn’t]( A WWII Soviet soldier, after the fall of Berlin, parachuted onto an enemy airfield where he was captured by more than 3,500 Japanese troops. Game over? Not even. 7 [Fast Forward]( [The ‘Waste’ Food Industry for the Wealthy]( Can sleekly packaged juices and snacks made from produce waste convince the West to throw away less food? 8 [Rising Stars]( [Turning Up the Volume on Podcast Voices From the Margins]( Juleyka Lantigua-Williams’ experiment could show the industry an economically sustainable way to amplify underrepresented voices. 9 [Good Sh*t]( [The A.I. Helping You Keep an Eye on Mom … While Guarding Her Privacy]( Now for a home security system that keeps tabs on movements via a “virtual skeleton.” 10 [True Story]( [Fire, Firefighting, Firefights … Then Depression Unyielding]( A side gig as a fireman turns into a rescue scenario where a soldier was saved from flames and death and almost everything but himself. You Should Know This [The Future of Gaming]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](