What John Lewis can teach the press

And mourning fills the news again. On Friday, a year uniquely defined by loss dealt us another painful blow as the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—a trailblazer for women's rights, a brilliant and original legal mind, a cultural icon immortalized even in life—died at 87, from complications of cancer. "A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment because they were needed most and were the most righteous," Nina Totenberg, an NPR reporter who covered Ginsburg for decades and became her close personal friend

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