Colin Dwyer, The Two-Way, Breaking News from NPR, September 20, 2017
Updated at 3:30 a.m. ET Wednesday
The death toll… Continue reading
“Son of Penn State molester Jerry Sandusky pleads guilty to child-sex crimes”, The Washington Post
By Avie Selk, September 16, 2017
The son of Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant coach convicted of sexually… Continue reading
“What Is Great about Ourselves”, London Review Of Books
Pankaj Mishra, 21 September Issue
- The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce
Little, Brown, 240 pp, £16.99, May,… Continue reading
“The 100 best nonfiction books: No 85 – Common Sense by Tom Paine (1776)”, The Observer
Robert McCrum, London, 18 September 2017
This little book helped ignite revolutionary America against the British under George III.
“Report: After A Decade of Improvement, Global Hunger Increases’, Foreign Policy
By Jesse Chase-Lubitz, September 15, 2017
The United Nations released its first ever report on global hunger and malnutrition on… Continue reading
“Myanmar’s Suu Kyi condemns abuses in Rakhine but rights groups skeptical’, Reuters
By Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters, September 19, 2017
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Tuesday any… Continue reading
“In the Amazon, a Catastrophic Gold Rush Looms”, The New York Times
By Chris Feliciano Arnold, Op-Ed contributor, Opinion, Sept. 19, 2017
CONCORD, Calif. — Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, is willing… Continue reading
“Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth child sex-abuse allegation”, The Seattle Times
By Jim Brunner, Daniel Beekman and Lewis Kamb, September 13, 2017
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation hours after… Continue reading
“Mayor Ed Murray’s cousin: He sexually abused me, too”, The Seattle Times
By Lewis Lamb and Jim Brunner, Times Watchdog, September 13, 2017
Joseph Dyer, a younger cousin of Seattle Mayor Ed… Continue reading
“The Strange Confusion of Top of the Lake: China Girl”, The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert, 12 September 2017
Elisabeth Moss, Nicole Kidman, and Gwendoline Christie star in a returning series gone very wrong.… Continue reading