Oct 7, 2016I am growing increasingly frustrated with a Red Cross that rejects oversight and seems unwilling to change.
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Relief organizations are broken machines
- After Matthew's devastation, Haiti asks you to send your donations somewhere else (than the Red Cross). Updated Oct 13, 2016 ago
- During Haiti's devastating 2011 earthquake, the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars and built a total of six homes.
- Rep. Bennie Thompson asks FEMA to look into the Red Cross's failed response to Louisiana's floods.
Haiti asks you to send your donations somewhere else (than the Red Cross)
Even as the country is beginning its rebuilding and emergency operations after being ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, Haitians are requesting that those looking to help please not donate to the Red Cross.
Raising funds while responding to disasters
As Hurricane Matthew becomes the latest disaster the Red Cross responds to (and fundraise from), local reports say that its staffing on the East Coast is inadequate.
During Haiti's devastating 2011 earthquake, the organization—which takes in much of its annual income during donation drives for major disasters—raised half a billion dollars and built a total of six homes.
Waiting to Rebuild
Two years after the shelling of the Gaza Strip, just 31 percent of the money pledged for relief has reached recipients. Many have waited for years for their homes to be rebuilt, and spent thousands of their own money in the meantime.
Oct 8, 2016I am being honest with you when I say that at this rate, we will never break the transmission chain and the virus will overwhelm us.
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The Editors' Longreads Picks
- An excellent essay on poverty and writing by Starr Davis. Updated May 31, 2022
- Novelist Héctor Tobar tries to understand the 1992 Los Angeles riots through the experiences of a single high school.
- Steven Johnson with a long assessment of the current state of A.I. and language. (The illusion has gotten very good.)
Welcome to The Morning News Tournament of Books, 2017 edition.
- Our championship match is decided in the Tournament of Books, with news of a Rooster surprise debuting this summer. Updated Mar 31, 2017
- In Thursday's action, Reyhan Harmanci sets up a colossal final.
- The Zombie round opens with Buzzfeed's Isaac Fitzgerald reading The Nix and The Underground Railroad.
Все ваши Белый дом принадлежит нам.
- "Will Putin expose the failings of American democracy or will he inadvertently expose the strength of American democracy?" Updated Mar 3, 2017
- Wilbur Ross just wanted to make some money in ethically gray areas (that should've prevented him from taking office).
- Jeff Sessions's spokeswoman can't help but continue to lie.
The oceans are under assault, and not just from the White House and friends.
- Trump's assault on the environment begins with American headwaters. Updated Mar 1, 2017
- Don't just blame the oil companies for destroying the oceans—blame sushi restaurants.
- Nothing escapes the deepest trenches of the ocean floor. Not light, not nutrients, not pollutants.