Click Here to Read: Don’t the Lives of Women and Girls Matter? Opinion by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times on January 11, 2025.
Malian refugee women wait with their children to receive relief items from UNHCR in Gaoudel, Ayorou district, northern Niger. Image: jhntering Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: ‘They just got my uncle’: Immigration arrests spark fear among farmworkers in Central Valley by By Rachel Uranga and Andrea Castillo in the Los Angeles Time on January 11, 2025.
Edison, Kern County, California. 17-year-old boy agri. [sic] worker sacking early potatoes after mechanical potato digger on large-scale potato ranch. Kern County planted 27,250 acres in potatoes (1940).Image: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Photographer Dorothea Lange.
Click Here to Read: The Secret to a Better City Is a Two-Wheeler: E-bikes get cars off the road and reduce pollution—and that’s only part of why places like Denver are giving them away. by Clive Thompson in Mother Jones in the January+February 2025 Issue
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Click Here to Read: British Lawmakers Vote to Legalize Assisted Dying in Landmark Decision: After an emotional debate, Parliament voted on Friday in favor of allowing assisted suicide for some terminally ill people in England and Wales By Stephen Castle in The New York Times on November 29, 2024.
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Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.
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Click Here to Read: The Trump landslide that wasn’t By Anita Chabria in the Los Angeles Times on November 21, 2024. I
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona. mage: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
