Speaking of deliberate suppression, Meta’s hostility toward the spread of news and “political” content on its apps—and the persistent, widespread use of those apps for political organizing, in spite of that stance—has been discussed quite a bit this election cycle.

And I know this book is coming out during a very contentious and very polarized time, and I didn’t write this book because of that, I wrote it in spite of that.

In spite of that success, Tautofi suggests there were disagreements about “decisions made for his development” at UNLV.

There are parts of the walk around Machado Lake that aren’t spectacular — including a fence sporting razor wire and the refinery in the distance — but the park thrives in spite of that.

“And I think that Kirsten took the role of having Cailee under her wing in a very nice, beautiful way. Off-camera, too, it was all very gracious and nice. In spite of that, it was a very hard shoot. Every day we were dealing with violent and horrible things, but the dynamic between us, the actors, was great.”