What it's like to captain a freighter through the Welland Canal
For your Wednesday armchair traveling: What it's like to captain a freighter through the Welland Canal (h/t coudal).
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December 14, 2016
A state judge in Texas ordered hundreds of women and children freed from a CoreCivic (formerly known as CCA)-run ICE “family detention” facility. / HuffPost The story of Cormac McCarthy, editor and writer for the Harvard Business Review. / andrewbatson.com The story of the first two people, back in 1937,
Moving Stars
The Obamas are the rare First Family to leave the White House stronger than when they arrived—never victims, even when hatefully victimized. Is it too late for the rest of us to learn how?
Liz Spayd and Tucker Carlson
In the video, good ol' frat boy Tucker Carlson goads the New York Times's public editor into castigating some Times reporters for allegedly criticizing Trump (one was merely tweeting a link to an essay his wife wrote). Here's Chris Lehmann: The real problem here is
The powers of science fiction are perfect for our present reality
If the boundary between science and fiction turns on the difference between truth and falsehood, the genre of science fiction might represent our post-truth regime more accurately than either disjointed discipline. From the introductory note to The New Inquiry’s latest edition, Science/Fiction, which features essays on the
December 13, 2016
An ode to the Daily Mail’s penis-obsessed headlines. / Jezebel Look, we don’t feel bad for Lockheed Martin, necessarily, but it’s a little bit insane that Trump’s tweet casting aspersion on the price of the F-35 fighter plane cost the company $4 billion overnight. / The
Top classical musicians pick their favorite Mozart
Now that it's 225 years after Mozart's death, the Guardian asked a bunch of top classical musicians for their favorite pieces. Here's pianist and writer Alfred Bende (who's playing in the video): The “Jeunehomme” piano concerto K271 is Mozart’s first great
The widening gyre that is Rodrigo Duterte’s criminal career
Ressa and Duterte have been crossing paths for over 30 years. She first interviewed him in the 1980s when he was Mayor of Davao. In 2015, during his election campaign, she conducted a now infamous interview with Duterte in which he confessed to killing three people. A brief profile of
Russia hacked our presidential election, no biggie
Straight from the next White House’s Twitter account The CIA has concluded that Russia hacked the election in order to help Trump. Unfortunately, we must therefore consider the President-elect’s take on the reports: Sorry about that. Though to point out this was brought up before the election:
December 12, 2016
Xi Jinping’s signature crackdown on political corruption, the centerpiece of his domestic policy, relies on an extrajudicial internal Communist Party disciplinary measure called shuanggui. / The New Yorker, hrw.org In the face of Trump, the LAPD promises it won’t hand over otherwise innocent undocumented immigrants to ICE. But