He fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps — from the inside. He survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/magazine/behrouz-boochani-australia.html
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/
After plastic explosives and Nazi memorabilia were found at an elite soldier’s home, Germany worries about a problem of far-right infiltration at the heart of its democracy.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/europe/germany-military-neo-nazis-ksk.html
Only a few hours had passed since President Donald Trump pardoned 1st Lt. Clint Lorance…
via Laredo Morning Times: https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/For-the-forgotten-men-of-1st-Platoon-Trump-s-15381879.php
How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the year’s most sublimely unsettling show.
Seeking political news, Nicholson Baker ventures to the wrong clip and back again
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/youtubes-psychic-wounds.php
In the nineteen-forties, a panel of scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the maintenance of a free and responsible press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy/how-can-the-press-best-serve-democracy
Ali Soufan, a decorated veteran of U.S. law enforcement, has become the target of a vitriolic social-media campaign that appears to involve some of the same people who had targeted Jamal Khashoggi.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-the-saudi-government-plotting-against-another-us-based-critic
When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes. “His highness doesn’t like to hear no,” one associate told a professor.
via Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-16/qatar-prince-usc-ucla-la
The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe
via Harper’s Magazine: https://harpers.org/archive/2020/08/in-plain-sight-syrian-war-criminals-in-europe/
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-bunker-that-became-home-to-a-dark-web-empire
Bicycles are powerful things—inexpensive, versatile tools that can be used by dissenters to sneak up and speed off, to organize and mobilize and elude.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-bicycle-as-a-vehicle-of-protest
The kids aren’t all right. The kids are fed up.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/opinion/trump-protest-gen-z.html
The long read: The unmasking of the Salisbury poisoning suspects by a new digital journalism outfit was an embarrassment for Putin – and evidence that Russian spies are not what they once were
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/23/skripal-salisbury-poisoning-decline-of-russia-spy-agencies-gru
The DayLife Army always seemed like a troll. Then it became a nightmare.
In 2013, Caleb McGillivary became an unlikely hero and an even unlikelier star. There were TV appearances and concerts, women and new friends, the promise of money and a reality show. Instead, three months later, the Alberta man was facing life in prison
via The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-hitchhiker-hero-celebrity-killer-the-strange-journey-of-the-man/
One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Across from him was Mark Zuckerberg. With his characteristic geeky excitement, Zuckerberg descri
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/reporting-on-facebook.php
Six months of life and death in America.
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/covid-floyd-protests.php
Translations:English (UK)Русский (Россия)On May 26th, crowds gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to protest the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police department. Floyd was black. Many of the protesters were people of color.
via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/