Everything-Wallahs
Ear cleaners, knife grinders, street-side barbers—portraits of Indian tradesmen who maintain caste-prescribed professions.
Archive
A collection of 14285 issues
September 3, 2013: Morning
* Ten months after "civil unrest" began, Britain OK'd sales of nerve gas chemicals to Syria. * Syria's first lady spends while her country burns. * This very lexicon...that found its way into Heaney’s most public poetry is the same one we are speaking regarding
August 30, 2013: Afternoon
* They may just be the first YouTube videos to start a war. * Paleontologists announce the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in British Columbia, expect their dig will produce more. * Researchers say thinking about money problems clouds your faculties, makes it harder to solve other problems. * Why NFL helmets will
August 30, 2013: Morning
* Washington Post obtains the NSA's "black budget" from Snowden, showing precisely how the "espionage empire" spends its money. * Everyone forgets that the "March on Washington" was the "March for Jobs and Freedom." * White House and Congress work to end "
August 29, 2013: Afternoon
* American and British lawmakers try to slow their countries' increasingly fast march toward a strike on Syria. * From the Onion, "Syria Conflict Intensifies As Bears Enter War." * South Korean paper reports Kim Jong Un's ex-girlfriend has been executed for violating North Korea's
August 29, 2013: Morning
* UN weapons inspectors will leave Syria on Saturday, one day ahead of schedule. * White paper: Military interventions in favor of the rebel faction tend to increase government killings of civilians by about 40%. * Group proposes naming storms after lawmakers who deny climate change. * In South Africa, synthetic drugs with ingredients
Now Boarding
More and more, we communicate today in short bursts of text. Letters may be dead, but we still write to each other constantly. A man considers what could be his last words to his children from a departing airplane.
August 28, 2013: Afternoon
* At the front lines of the chemical attacks in Syria. * Another look at the "red line": When chemical weapons are worse than conventional killing. * An internal debate over bombing Syria. * The pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army takes down the New York Times, attacks Twitter and HuffPo in the
August 28, 2013: Morning
* Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson credited for encouraging King to speak about his dream. * Related: Jackson sings "Closer Walk With Thee" at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1970. * California rim fire that threatens to disrupt Yosemite and San Francisco water supply can be seen from outer space. * In Thailand, "
Our Bad
In light of the ongoing Snowden leak, the National Security Agency has begun mailing apology notes to private citizens. However, since it did take the time to read your correspondence, advice may be included.