I don’t know where the reindeer end and he begins. Fascinating look into culture of Finland’s reindeer farmers. Reindeer meat is becoming chic, but production is falling due to climate change, predators, and logging. ↩︎ Economist, posted Dec. 24, 2016 A short article by Mayukh Sen on how and
Moving into the next year, lifting up quality journalism―specifically quality journalism written by women and members of other marginalized groups―will be all the more vital. Round out your year in reading with this excellent collection of 29 standout pieces of writing and reporting by some of our best
Another reason to delete Uber: It hoards all of its data from the cities it works in. (So does Lyft.) This news was largely caught up in the midst of the #DeleteUber protests (delete Uber, by the way), but Uber has graciously decided to allow cities and the public to
This isn’t a data-sharing agreement—it is a secret government programme that turns the Department for Education into a border control force. The United Kingdom’s education department is encouraging teachers to spy and report on children of illegal immigrants and to create a “hostile environment” for them
Our state government can no longer be classified as a full democracy. When it comes to the integrity of the voting district boundaries no country has ever received as low a score as the 7/100 North Carolina received. By measures of electoral integrity, North Carolina rates only as partly-
Steven Mnuchin’s past—kicking retirees out of their homes, funding police-run “boot camps” for children—is unbefitting of a Cabinet nominee. Trump’s Treasury Secretary pick, the impossible-to-pronounce Steven Mnuchin, ran a bank that tried to force people out of their homes without any actual cause,
The last several weeks have seen the worst wave in years of murders of social leaders, indigenous leaders, land-rights activists, and human rights defenders. The renewed violence casts doubt on whether space for non-violent political activity will truly exist in Colombia’s “post-conflict” period. By one count,
The campaign supporting California’s secession opened its first embassy in, yes, you guessed it, Moscow. “Certainly it’s controversial,” the campaign’s leader told Vice News on the choice. “But we can’t become a country just by saying it. Countries like Russia need to help.” ↩︎ posted Dec. 24,
Climate deniers are in trouble over heavy-handed tactics again. A federal appeals court okayed climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit, finding that a reasonable jury would believe that the National Review’s accusations of academic fraud, peppered with comparisons to child molesters, were baseless and harmful to his
An eight-year broken promise After failing to deliver on a campaign promise (never mind that day-one executive order) to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, President Obama recently told Congress he intends to transfer some 18 of the 59 inmates left in the facility on his very
