Derek Thompson, Dec 31, 2018
Why the news is going back to the 19th century
It’s my holiday tradition to… Continue reading
“Extreme weather in 2018 was a raging, howling signal of climate change”, The Washington Post
By Joel Achenbach, December 31, 2018
Just off the top of his head, climate scientist Kevin Trenberth can recount many… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Personal Growth, Human Rights, Economic Opportunity, Hunger, War, Disease, Population, Environment
The Year in Illustration, The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2018
Its New Year’s Eve 2018.
We end the… Continue reading
Message of the Day: Personal Growth, Human Rights, Economic Opportunity, War, Hunger, Disease, Population, Environment
The Year in Illustration, The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2018
Its New Year’s Eve 2018.
We end the… Continue reading
In a year of deepening hunger, WFP reaches a record 5 million people in Democratic Republic of Congo”, World Food Programme
Press Release, Rome, 20 December 2018
Kinshasa – With widening violence, largescale displacement, poor harvests and endemic poverty nearly doubling… Continue reading
“The return of wolves to Yellowstone Park” CBS Sixty Minutes
Bill Whtikaker, Dec 23, 2018
It’s safe to say that wolves have an image problem. Since ancient times they’ve been… Continue reading
“Top 10 of 2018—A look back at our most popular articles of the year”, The Johannesburg Review of Books
Jennifer Malec, December 19, 2018
This December marked the twentieth issue of The JRB, and the twelfth of the year.… Continue reading
“The Best Long Reads of 2018: ‘”The girl who sabotaged her own wedding’”, BBC News
By Naomi Grimley, London, 23 December 2108
One last phone call
On the morning of any wedding there’s a lot… Continue reading
“Statement from Der Spiegel Editors-in-Chief: Relotius Journalistic Fraud Case”, Der Spiegel
By Steffen Klusmann and Dirk Kurbjuweit, Berlin, December 20, 2018
Claas Relotius wrote many seemingly excellent feature stories for DER… Continue reading
“For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone”, The New York Times
By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, Dec. 22. 2018
At the midpoint of his term, the president has grown more… Continue reading