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. ↩︎ posted Oct. 13, 2016 Raising
Apparently the president and/or his assistants have time on their hands: he edited the latest issue of Wired, wrote a short piece for CNN about wanting to see Americans living on Mars, and a much, much longer and wonkier article for the Economist in which he predicts trouble spots
In May 1988, girlfriends Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight were attacked while camping on the Appalachian Trail by Stephen Roy. In the Hollow tells the story of the shooting, Wight's death, and Brenner's desperate survival (and later transformation into an advocate for hate crime legislation in
RBG says “no” to the knee Among the liberal millennials Obama’s eight years have brought to Washington, few cultural talismans are considered more woke than a “Notorious RBG” shirt. But the Supreme Court justice’s personality cult deflated a bit when she called Kaepernick’s protest “dumb and disrespectful.
“A prominent political website calculated how many votes were lost in each departamento, or state, either because of the torrential rains brought by Hurricane Matthew, or by the lack of mermelada that is ordinarily distributed to local politicians at election time. The marmalade, or under-the-table money, is used
As journalists flock to fill more lucrative positions in public relations, stories like this become more common: Denver Post reporter leaves to consult for oil and gas industry, offering tips on how to persuade and shame her former colleagues into covering fracking more positively. / HuffPost A rookie cop listened to
“I 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.” A narrative tick-tock shows how the global health relief community failed to save thousands of lives from Ebola in West Africa. / The Washington
“Santos’s decision to start negotiations with the FARC did not come exclusively from an interest in further opening the Colombian economy to global capitalism and attracting FDI into extractive sectors, low-wage services, and labor-intensive industries. It also reflects changing dynamics of power and a break in the
To propel you into the weekend, Justin Johnson plays the blues on a three-string shovel guitar.
Darren Seals was found weeks ago, shot dead and left to burn in a flaming car. The national news mentioned him as a Black Lives Matter activist, but that erases his most potent contributions to the movement: he passionately delineated the difference between the national movement ("ACTORvists") and
