Fiona Harvey, Environment correspondent, 14 Jun 2021
Laurence Tubiana, a key player in 2015 Paris summit, says UK and… Continue reading
“‘It had jangled our emotions and blown our minds’—David Diop and Anna Moschovakis win the 2021 International Booker Prize for At Night All Blood is Black”, The Johannesburg Review of Books
At Night All Blood is Black, written by Senegalese–French author… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Disease
The Disease Detective, The New York Times Magazine, June 6, 2021
While the rich nations seem to be… Continue reading
Message of the Day: Disease
The Disease Detective, The New York Times Magazine, June 6, 2021
While the rich nations seem to be… Continue reading
“Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Bolster Competitiveness With China,” The New York Times
The wide margin of support reflected a sense of urgency… Continue reading
“Myanmar: The mysterious deaths of the NLD party officials” BBC News
By Jonathan Head, South East Asia correspondent, 8 june 2021
The violence used by Myanmar’s armed forces against unarmed… Continue reading
“Prominent German cardinal Reinhard Marx offers to resign, citing ‘catastrophe’ of sexual abuse”, The Washington Post
By Chico Harlan, June 4, 2021
“Pesticides Are Killing the World’s Soils”, Scientific American
By Nathan Donley, Tari Gunstone on
They cause significant harm to earthworms, beetles, ground-nesting bees and thousands… Continue reading
“Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity”, Associated Press
Nicole Winfield, Vatican City, June 1, 2021
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Environment, War, Personal Growth, Economic Opportunity, Population, Disease, Hunger, Human Rights
Prayer for a Just War, Harper’s Magazine, June 2021 Issue
In our last post, we noted how a… Continue reading