With more than 32,000 COVID-19 infections and 400 deaths in the US to date, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams predicting that “this week, it’s going to get bad,” as hospitals prepare for the eventuality of rationing treatment for patients least … Continue reading
If you’re like, well, much of the population of the planet right now, you’re doing little other than obsessively reading news sites for the latest on the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, maybe taking an occasional break to check whether … Continue reading
The year 2019 was, by all accounts, the year of climate awareness. To an unprecedented degree, in the three decades since scientists first warned of the imminent dangers of rising carbon emissions and the resulting global warming, we were transfixed … Continue reading
If you’ve only been following the bushfires ravaging Australia through the headlines popping up on your social media feeds — which, let’s face it, is more popular than reading newspapers these days — it’s probably been in a series of … Continue reading
In recent months, most of the media coverage of New York’s subway system has been focused on the staggering cost to keep it in good working order and whether there’s a better way to run city transit. But Monday’s New … Continue reading
While everything about the story of Claas Relotius, the award-winning Der Spiegel journalist who turned out to have been faking everything from quotes to geographic details for years, should be alarming to anyone who cares about responsible journalism, possibly the … Continue reading
Days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005, the national news media expressed collective alarm at the discovery that in modern America, many people shelter in place during storms for the simple reason that they can’t afford to … Continue reading
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for giving “voice to the voiceless” on international social justice issues, wrote an op-ed in yesterday’s Times (10/30/16) arguing for increased government action on poverty. His … Continue reading
When a series of bombs went off at the Brussels airport and in a subway station yesterday, killing 31 people and injuring more than 200, the reaction of the US press was immediate and overwhelming. Every major news outlet turned … Continue reading
With Sacramento’s new basketball arena set to open in October, local station FOX40 sent a reporter to find out what the new home of the Kings (being built at a public cost of $226 million) is doing for the city’s … Continue reading