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·Oct 2, 2018

The Trump Administration Knows the Planet Is Going to Boil. It Doesn’t Care

Trump’s team used last week to sneak in disastrous, linked policies on climate change and child refugee camps — By Bill McKibben In the cloud of toxic dust thrown up by the Kavanaugh hearings last week, two new Trump initiatives slipped by with less notice than they deserve. Both are ugly, stupid — and they are linked, though in ways not immediately apparent. In the first, the administration provided…

Immigration

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The Trump Administration Knows the Planet Is Going to Boil. It Doesn’t Care
The Trump Administration Knows the Planet Is Going to Boil. It Doesn’t Care
Immigration

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Published in The Guardian

·Oct 1, 2018

Chances Are You Know a Sexual Assault Survivor. Do You Know What to Say?

We are in the midst of a reckoning: survivors of assault are sharing their stories and we need to learn how to respond — By Mandy Len Catron I was 19 the first time someone shared her story of being sexually assaulted with me. Over AOL Instant Messenger, a friend from high school said she’d lost her virginity at a party a year earlier. “But,” she added, “it wasn’t what I wanted. I was…

Sexual Assault

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Chances Are You Know a Sexual Assault Survivor. Do You Know What to Say?
Chances Are You Know a Sexual Assault Survivor. Do You Know What to Say?
Sexual Assault

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 28, 2018

My Career as an International Blood Smuggler

For years, Kathleen McLaughlin smuggled American plasma every time she entered China, home to the world’s largest and deadliest blood debacle. She had no other choice — By Kathleen McLaughlin I started my decade-long turn as an international blood smuggler in 2004 with a mundane task: packing. I gently stacked a dozen half-liter glass vials into two soft-sided picnic coolers. The bottles held the components of a syrupy mix, a powerful medicine made from the immune system…

Health

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My Career as an International Blood Smuggler
My Career as an International Blood Smuggler
Health

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 27, 2018

High School Slut-Shaming Still Haunts Me. Kavanaugh Made Me Relive It

The pain of being shamed by a boastful, lying schoolboy has never left me. Now, I’m reliving it all over again — By Leslie Bennetts When Renate Schroeder Dolphin signed a group letter to the Senate judiciary committee claiming that Brett Kavanaugh treated women with respect, she didn’t realize that the boy she had known in high school had publicly slut-shamed her for the amusement of his fellow football players.

Feminism

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High School Slut-Shaming Still Haunts Me. Kavanaugh Made Me Relive It
High School Slut-Shaming Still Haunts Me. Kavanaugh Made Me Relive It
Feminism

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 26, 2018

How to Write the Perfect Sentence

Orwell advised cutting as many words as possible, Woolf found energy in verbs, and Baldwin aimed for ‘a sentence as clean as a bone’. What can we learn from celebrated authors about the art of writing well? — By Joe Moran Every writer, of school age and older, is in the sentences game. The sentence is our writing commons, the shared ground where all writers walk. A poet writes in sentences, and so does the unsung author who came up with “Items trapped in doors cause delays”. The…

Writing

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How to Write the Perfect Sentence
How to Write the Perfect Sentence
Writing

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 25, 2018

Climate Gentrification: The Rich Can Afford to Move — What About the Poor?

As people flee intense heat in Arizona for gentler climes, rental and property values soar. But what about those left behind? — By Oliver Milman Only half-jokingly, some residents of a progressive city 300 miles north of the Mexican border have adopted the “build the wall” slogan in the face of a wave of newcomers. But these perceived interlopers are starkly different from Donald Trump’s imagination.

Climate Change

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Climate Gentrification: The Rich Can Afford to Move — What About the Poor?
Climate Gentrification: The Rich Can Afford to Move — What About the Poor?
Climate Change

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 25, 2018

Ex-UN Chief Ban Ki-moon Says US Healthcare System Is ‘Morally Wrong’

Former UN secretary general accuses ‘powerful’ health interests in the US of blocking universal healthcare — By Jessica Glenza The former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United States’ healthcare system as politically and morally wrong, and urged American leaders to enact publicly financed healthcare as a “human right”. Ban made the comments in an exclusive interview with the Guardian in New York…

Politics

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Ex-UN Chief Ban Ki-moon Says US Healthcare System Is ‘Morally Wrong’
Ex-UN Chief Ban Ki-moon Says US Healthcare System Is ‘Morally Wrong’
Politics

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 24, 2018

Google at 20: How Two ‘Obnoxious’ Students Changed the Internet

It is two decades since Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved their fledgling startup out of their dorms. With threats to its power growing, how long can the company dominate? — By Samuel Gibbs and Alex Hern In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering graduate from the University of Michigan, was one of those being shown around the Palo Alto, California campus.

Tech

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Google at 20: How Two ‘Obnoxious’ Students Changed the Internet
Google at 20: How Two ‘Obnoxious’ Students Changed the Internet
Tech

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 24, 2018

The Male Cultural Elite Is Staggeringly Blind to #MeToo. Now It’s Paying for It

Harper’s and New York Review of Books both published problematic essays by men disgraced by #MeToo. Here is what that reveals — By Moira Donegan First, it was Harper’s. In their October issue, the magazine published an essay by John Hockenberry, the disgraced former public radio host who was accused of sexual harassment and racially inappropriate comments by women he worked with. He sent them emails asking for dates, made comments on…

Metoo

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The Male Cultural Elite Is Staggeringly Blind to #MeToo. Now It’s Paying for It
The Male Cultural Elite Is Staggeringly Blind to #MeToo. Now It’s Paying for It
Metoo

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Published in The Guardian

·Sep 20, 2018

Climate Change Capitalism: The Booming Business of Private Firefighters

Record-breaking US wildfires are fueling a cottage industry of boutique services — and many are happy to pay the price — By Lauren Smiley With record-breaking wildfires carving up the American west this summer, firefighters have become the rarest of civil servants: the kind almost universally lauded as heroes. …

Climate Change

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Climate Change Capitalism: The Booming Business of Private Firefighters
Climate Change Capitalism: The Booming Business of Private Firefighters
Climate Change

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