The Dark Side of the First Woman Fighter Pilot | Wooing the Disability Vote

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Tuesday Dec 10, 2019 1 [News + Politics]( [News + Politics]( [What Are Democrats Doing to Win Over America’s Largest Minority Group?]( Voters with disabilities could prove to be game changers in the 2020 election. During one of the biggest political weekends in [Iowa]( this election season, six presidential candidates spent nearly an hour each speaking to a crowd of about 100 voters in Cedar Rapids. But the draw wasn’t just those in the quiet Ramada Inn conference room. It was the people they represented: some 35 million eligible voters with disabilities and the people who love them — another 27 million voters with household members who have a disability, according to Rutgers University research. Combined, this group made up almost a third of the electorate in 2016, and presidential candidates are finally adjusting to tap the unharnessed potential of this massive voting bloc. “This is the first forum of its kind that we’ve had in the entire presidential race — and I think it has taken way too long,” Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota senator now polling fifth in Iowa, told the 2019 Accessibility, Inclusion and Outreach Conference. [READ MORE]( 2 [The New + the Next]( [The New + the Next]( [This Piano-Playing Phenom Is Turning NBA Scouts’ Heads]( Zeke Nnaji’s upbringing in a Nigerian-American household instilled the work ethic he’s using to tear up college hoops. Before Zeke Nnaji’s senior season at Hopkins High School in Minnesota, the kid now lighting it up at the University of Arizona had a simple imperative from his coaches: Don’t score. For the entire preseason fall league, Nnaji effectively didn’t take a shot, setting the table for teammates and developing his skills as a playmaker. “Success energizes him,” says Hopkins assistant coach and family friend Kerry Sutherland of the player who would go on to score 24 points per game during the season. “All he does is play hard and smile.” And now? He scores — a lot. [READ MORE]( 3 [News + Politics]( [News + Politics]( [What Aung San Suu Kyi Saw: Myanmar’s Leader Heads to The Hague]( In a new twist, the former Nobel Peace Prize winner is defending an alleged genocide. If it’s true that no person ever consciously chooses evil — a philosophical saw suggested by Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother of the author of Frankenstein — Aung San Suu Kyi’s transformation from perfectly sympathetic former political prisoner to perfectly unsympathetic alleged war criminal is even more baffling. Baffling enough that on Tuesday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ highest court, will be considering the charges that Myanmar committed genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya. Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar, will be directing a spirited defense against the charges when she hits The Hague. [READ MORE]( more from ozy, below [Advert]( [Advert]([Advertisement][Advertisement] 4 [True Stories]( [The World’s First Female Fighter Pilot Had a Dark Side]( Turkey broke new ground for women’s rights, but it didn’t end well. 5 [News + Politics]( [One-Third of Americans Rely on News They Don’t Even Trust]( Consumers know their sources aren't reliable but they choose them anyway, a new study finds. 6 [The New + the Next]( [Beijing Bets on Bamboo to Cut Carbon Costs]( China’s construction industry is a major polluter globally, but this could change the score. 7 [True Stories]( [The Night I Discovered My Father Was Molesting My Kids]( Families are complicated things in the best of times. And in the worst of times? Absolutely horrible. 8 [The New + the Next]( [The Judge Who Made His Own Bail Rules to Stop Jail Deaths]( Judge Michael Nelson went rogue when he was fed up with pretrial inmates dying. Now he’s at the vanguard of a nationwide fight. 9 [Good Sh*t]( [Your Loved One, Turned Into 25 Stones]( Many people don’t know what to do with the ashes of a loved one. This is a way to give those ashes meaning. 10 [True Stories]( [The Stolen Campaign Documents That Helped Reagan Win the Presidency]( Just before the presidential debate between President Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan in 1980, the Reagan campaign received an unexpected boost. You Should Know This [Simon Sinek Explains Why Playing an ‘Infinite Game’ Could Define the Future of Work]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](