“Brooks and Capehart on how American democracy fared in 2021, and their hopes for 2022”, PBS NewsHour
Dec 31, 2021, Amna Nawaz, David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist… Continue reading
Issue of the Week: Disease, Human Rights, War, Environment, Hunger, Economic Opportunity, Population, Personal Growth
The 2021, “Year in Pictures, December Issue, National Geographic
Our last post was the New York Times year… Continue reading
Message of the Day: Disease, Human Rights, War, Environment, Hunger, Economic Opportunity, Population, Personal Growth
The 2021, “Year in Pictures, December Issue, National Geographic
Our last post was the New York Times year… Continue reading
“Remembering The Arch: Can the example of his life help us restore our broken politics?”, Daily Maverick
By Mcebisi Jonas, Johannesburg, 30 Dec 2021
Archbishop Desmond Tutu died last week, perhaps the last great representative of a… Continue reading
“Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90”, The New York Times
The archbishop, a powerful force for nonviolence in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement,… Continue reading
“Another Christmas of Death and Distress in America’s I.C.U.s”, The New York Times
Sarah Bahr and
The toll on health care workers, many of whom are giving… Continue reading
“Gorbachev’s resignation 30 years ago marked the end of USSR”, Associated Press
By Vladimir Isachenkov, December 25, 2021
MOSCOW (AP) — People strolling across Moscow’s snowy Red Square on the evening of… Continue reading
“For the Gwich’in People, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Isn’t a Political Issue, It’s Home”, Smithsonian Magazine
Photographs by Peter Mather, Text by Eva Holland, December 2021 Issue
Journey to the far north of Alaska, where the… Continue reading
“Now This Is The Truth”, Dublin Review of Books
Maura O’Kiely,
Making Nice, by Ferdinand Mount, Bloomsbury, 248 pp, £13.99, ISBN: 978-1472994387
In his… Continue reading
“2021: The year of the mask”, BBC Future
By Stephen Dowling/Images chosen by Javier Hirschfeld, 21st December 2021
As the world entered its second full year of… Continue reading