Category: media

  • A Journalist’s Murder in Malta | The New Yorker

    Murder in Malta After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/murder-in-malta Daphne wrote her final sentences minutes before the explosion: “There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.”

  • FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning – bellingcat

    FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning – bellingcat A joint investigation between Bellingcat and The Insider, in cooperation with Der Spiegel and CNN, has discovered voluminous telecom and travel data that implicates Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in the poisoning of the prominent Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. via […]

  • Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2020 | The New Yorker

    Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2020 If you, like me, need a fun-filled break from the past twelve pretty uneventful months, feast your eyes on these cartoons. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2020-in-review/instagrams-favorite-new-yorker-cartoons-of-2020 As I’m sure you know, this kind of bliss does get a bit tedious as time goes on—too much of a good […]

  • She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One – The New York Times

    She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One (Published 2020) Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html In three years, Mrs. Rodríguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted […]

  • College Sports Has Reported at Least 6,629 Virus Cases – The New York Times

    College Sports Has Reported at Least 6,629 Virus Cases. There Are Many More. (Published 2020) The N.C.A.A. does not track coronavirus cases, but a New York Times analysis shows the pandemic’s toll across college athletics. Many universities have kept their case counts from the public. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/sports/coronavirus-college-sports-football.html The remaining schools, many of them public institutions, […]

  • My Life in Cars | The New Yorker

    My Life in Cars I lucked into the romance of driving at its fervent peak. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-life-in-cars I lucked into the romance of driving at its fervent peak.

  • ‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy – The New York Times

    ‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy (Published 2020) The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump was also a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders who had put their interests ahead of the country’s. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/politics/trump-lawsuits-electoral-college.html The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump’s desperate bid for a second term not […]

  • Four State A.G.s Ask Supreme Court to Reject Texas Election Lawsuit – The New York Times

    In Blistering Retort, 4 Battleground States Tell Texas to Butt Out of Election (Published 2020) The attorneys general of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia asked the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Texas seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/us/trump-election-lawsuit-states.html The lawsuit, filed by the Republican attorney general of Texas and backed […]

  • Pentagon Weighs Sharp Drawback in Support for C.I.A. – The New York Times

    Pentagon Weighs Sharp Drawback in Support for C.I.A. (Published 2020) A broad review of the military’s support for the agency is underway, including pulling back personnel and rethinking support for C.I.A. operations around the world. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/us/politics/pentagon-cia-support.html The administration is considering multiple options that could take effect as early as Jan. 5. One would reduce […]

  • Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats | The New Yorker

    Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats Older lawmakers’ foibles and infirmities are coming under new scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and coverup. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/dianne-feinsteins-missteps-raise-a-painful-age-question-among-senate-democrats Twitter and other social-media platforms are exposing lawmakers’ infirmities to new and harsher scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and […]

  • The Life and COVID Death of a Revered Siberian Doctor | The New Yorker

    The Life and COVID Death of a Revered Siberian Doctor In a chaotic and overwhelmed hospital, a physician received the kind of indifferent medical care he spent his life trying to overcome. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-life-and-covid-death-of-a-revered-siberian-doctor Perhaps the most macabre proof of the dysfunction in Tomsk came when, according to local media, a family […]

  • Interpreting America at the Minsk Book Fair | Literary Hub

    Interpreting America at the Minsk Book Fair At the end of January this year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko hosted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Independence Palace, a glassy, corporate-looking building on Prospekte Pob… via Literary Hub: https://lithub.com/interpreting-america-at-the-minsk-book-fair/ It’s jarring that an industry ostensibly built on understanding the world’s complexity is so basic […]