Message of the Day: Hunger, Environment, Population, Economic Opportunity
The Food Supply Is At Dire Risk, U.N. Experts Say, The New York Times, August 8, 2019
The… Continue reading
“Ideas: The Jeffrey Epstein–Victoria’s Secret Connection”, The Atlantic
Moira Donegan, Aug 6, 2019
Images of women and girls as thoughtless and hypersexual have contributed to a culture of… Continue reading
“Remembering the Peerless Toni Morrison”, The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert, Aug 6, 2019
The author, teacher, Nobel laureate, and grande dame of American letters has died at the… Continue reading
“Ecological land grab: food vs fuel vs forests”, Agence France-Presse
Paris, 5 August 2019
The overlapping crises of climate change, mass species extinction, and an unsustainable global food system are… Continue reading
“El Paso shooting comes amid global rise in white nationalist violence”, The Guardian
Lois Beckett and Jason Wilson, London, 5 August 2019
More than 175 people have been killed in at least 16… Continue reading
“Back-to-Back Outbreaks of Gun Violence in El Paso and Dayton Stun Country”, The New York Times
By Campbell Robertson, Julie Bosman and Mitch Smith, August 4, 2019
DAYTON, Ohio — On Sunday, Americans woke up to… Continue reading
“Kashmir leaders under house arrest as unrest grows”, BBC News
London, 5 August 2019
Top politicians in Indian-administered Kashmir have been put under house arrest, days after thousands of troops… Continue reading
“What Hong Kong’s Turmoil Means For Taiwan”, NPR
Julie McCarthy, Weekend Edition, August 3, 2019
Hong Kong’s turmoil reverberates among Taiwanese. Many have a sense dread that as… Continue reading
“What does Sudan’s constitutional declaration say?”, Al Jazeera
Doha, August 4, 2019
Long-awaited document paves the way for civilian rule after Omar al-Bashir’s removal in the face of… Continue reading
“Read an excerpt from The Enforcers, revealing a brazen plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela at his inauguration”, The Johannesburg Review of books
The Johannesburg Review of Books, July 2019
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an excerpt from The Enforcers: Inside Cape… Continue reading