-
+8 +1
Solitude and Leadership
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts. By William Deresiewicz.
-
+1 +1
The Drum Major Instinct
Martin Luther King Jr. (Final Sermon, Feb. 4, 1968)
-
+43 +1
Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self
The same part of the brain that allows us to step into the shoes of others also helps us restrain ourselves. By Ed Yong.
-
+1 +1
I Was Here
Beyonce
-
+28 +1
Scott Pruitt claims he wants to help towns his policies will destroy. Like this one
He’s visiting East Chicago, a Superfund site. By Nathalie Baptiste.
-
+24 +1
Meet Smelly Kelly, the Subway Sniffer of New York City
From gas leaks to eels, James “Smelly” Kelly changed the history of the city’s underground. By Eric Grundhauser.
-
+2 +1
US photographer captured moment of her death in Afghanistan
The 22-year-old camerawoman and four Afghan soldiers were blown up in July 2013.
-
+11 +1
Dubious Corporate Practices Get a Rubber Stamp From Big Investors
Arconic, the industrial materials company that spun off Alcoa, has been treated with kid gloves by big asset managers. Thursday’s annual meeting could change things. By Gretchen Morgenson.
-
+6 +1
Woman Raped, Shackled During Childbirth in Jail of Reported Trump Hire
On Wednesday, a jury ordered the Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] jail, run by Sheriff David Clarke, who recently announced he has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security, to pay the victim $6.7 million. By Gabby Bess.
-
+9 +1
Choose and Be Damned: Responsibility and Privilege in a Neoliberal Age
Sean McCann on two new books about the problem of meritocracy.
-
+8 +1
The Spy Who Overthrew Macedonia’s Government
For long-serving spy Gjorgi Lazarevski, a 2010 raid on one of Macedonia’s few remaining independent TV stations was the last straw. Gjorgi Lazarevski, a former Macedonian intelligence officer who helped expose a massive wiretapping scheme that brought down the government. By Borjan Jovanovski.
-
+1 +1
Not Your Messiah
The safety of a rifle slung around your shoulders, your squad mates in front of and behind you, and the comfort of a well-worn FROG suit, were gone, replaced by strange clothes, strange sights, strange people. By Peter Lucier.
-
+15 +1
Robert Parry: When ‘Independent’ Journalism Meant Something
The late publisher of Consortium News was a trailblazer who held lazy reporters and groupthink in the highest contempt. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.
-
+17 +1
Injustice At Sea: the Irradiated Sailors of the USS Reagan
American sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan were exposed to radiation from Fukushima. Many are sick. Some have died. Why can’t they get justice? By Linda Pentz Gunter.
-
+12 +1
The Spy Who Came Home
Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. By Ben Taub.
-
+5 +1
Nobody Planned This, Nobody Expected It
The Battle of Stalingrad was the largest battle in history. With it came equally superlative stories of how people dealt with risk... By Morgan Housel.
-
+11 +1
Bones of Civil War dead found on a battlefield tell their horror stories
Archaeologists have found a pit where two soldiers and some amputated arms and legs were buried after the Civil War’s Second Battle of Bull Run near Manassas.
-
+20 +1
Firefighters saved a man having a heart attack and then they finished his yard work for him
When a man had a heart attack while laying sod in his front yard, first responders not only saved him, but they also finished the job for him. By Christina Zdanowicz. (July 9, 2018)
-
+8 +1
Reagan Warned
-
+18 +1
Hard to do
We often feel unsure about what to say to a friend with a serious illness, so we fall back on clichés.
Submit a link
Start a discussion