In the news
Loading
These stories mention Kone in passing rather than reporting on it directly.
“Despite my lack of functional arms, during the Seroja storm I was still able to use my legs to run. I am unaware of the fate of my disabled peers, specifically those who rely on wheelchairs and crutches… We must possess the capability to endure in such a vulnerable situation”. When you hear first-person accounts
For decades, environmental advocates have been pushing back against “greenwashing,” when polluting companies misleadingly present themselves as environmentally friendly. Governments are finally starting to tackle the problem with stricter regulations: The European Union agreed to ban deceptive environmental ads in September, and the U.S. Fair Trade Commission is in the process of updating its guidelines around green
How is it that, in a country founded on the separation of church and state, religious groups play such an important role in American political life? As a young married woman in the 1960s, I knew that the Civil Rights Movement I admired had a religious element and that, while the Episcopal Church I attended
Everywhere I have lived, from New York City, where I was born and raised, to Michigan where my home is now, everyone I know belongs to at least one voluntary association – defined as a group you freely choose to join, unpaid and outside of work. I even remember seeing my stay-at-home, very puritan mother
However you look at it, and whatever your political views, in virtually every corner of political and legal affairs in the United States, the voices and opinions of younger women are more prevalent and loudly heard than ever before. A tour d’horizon of these two areas does not cover the breadth of heightened prevalence of
It is a truth universally under-acknowledged, that a woman living in Earth’s Anthropocene must be in want of a free, fair and prosperous life. A life which, in the face of untold consequences from the world’s matrix of interrelated crises, is becoming disproportionately blurrier. That’s why female activists should be celebrated, not just because it’s
At the end of every year, Time Magazine dedicates their coveted December cover image and story to highlight an individual, ensemble or event which they deem has had significant influence over the past year, marking their impact with a portrait. Previous winners have included Mahatma Gandhi in 1930, Adolf Hitler in 1938, the Apollo 8
Four years old, in my grandmother’s Calcutta apartment, watching her train out her new knees on cooking a menagerie’s worth of Indian meat curries. Seven years old, watching my mother work her magic into a big pot of Gumbo, after we’d watched Bourdain talk about it on TV. Twenty-two, watching my roommate idly stir a
This story originally appeared in The Nation and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. The message coming from America’s mainstream media has been consistent for months: The Democrats are going down. One news story after another projects that today’s midterm elections will give Republicans control of at
One would think that a generation so environmentally conscious, facing the worst of the consequences of climate change, would form a sirenly chorus of dissent and accountability for the carbon that this sport and its enablers emit. One, in this case, would be wrong; Liberty Media, the co-producers of the four-season-long “Formula 1: Drive to
According to Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia has seen a rise in executions during the first seven months of 2021, after experiencing a decrease of cases in 2020 during its G20 presidency. The human rights group reported on Tuesday, that the country has carried out executions of a minimum of 40 people between January and July
It’s hard to imagine a professional or educational scenario where Word, Powerpoint, or Excel would not be applicable. Beyond these indispensable software programs, it is difficult to envision the gaming industry without the Xbox. Whether in the office, at school, or in the home, Microsoft has an omnipresent hold on all our daily lives. As