25 December 18 PM
My Daughter Reality Winner Faced Severe Punishment, but Key Figures in the Trump-Russia Scandal Are Getting Off Easy
Billie Winner-Davis, The Intercept
Winner-Davis writes: "I am the mother of Reality Leigh Winner, a 27-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran who is in prison for leaking a document with proof of Russian election hacking efforts. I am writing now because I am outraged."
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Billie Winner-Davis, The Intercept
Winner-Davis writes: "I am the mother of Reality Leigh Winner, a 27-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran who is in prison for leaking a document with proof of Russian election hacking efforts. I am writing now because I am outraged."
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Brett Kavanaugh. (photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The Year of the Old Boys
Lili Loofbourow, Slate
Loofbourow writes: "Many of us have spent 2018 trying to wrap our heads around how, exactly, the country whose slightly priggish brand was once meritocracy, competence, and moral authority has turned out to have instead nourished and enriched an elaborate network of overripe, decadent, and not particularly clever criminals."
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Lili Loofbourow, Slate
Loofbourow writes: "Many of us have spent 2018 trying to wrap our heads around how, exactly, the country whose slightly priggish brand was once meritocracy, competence, and moral authority has turned out to have instead nourished and enriched an elaborate network of overripe, decadent, and not particularly clever criminals."
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The leaker of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg. (photo: Reuters)
Daniel Ellsberg and Jill Lepore Seek Records of Probe Into Pentagon Papers Leak
Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
Richer writes: "A Harvard University professor and writer for The New Yorker is asking a court to order the release of documents related to two grand juries that sat in Boston nearly 50 years ago to investigate the leak of the Pentagon Papers."
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Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
Richer writes: "A Harvard University professor and writer for The New Yorker is asking a court to order the release of documents related to two grand juries that sat in Boston nearly 50 years ago to investigate the leak of the Pentagon Papers."
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The 25th annual La Posada Sin Fronteras march in San Diego. (photo: Walt Johnson/CS Monitor)
No Room at the Inn: Mexican Posada Tradition Inspires US Migrants
Patricia Leigh Brown, The Christian Science Monitor
Brown writes: "This year, Posada season is particularly resonant, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of farmworkers throughout the Central Valley, the tear-gassing of migrants at the border, and thousands of Central Americans living in limbo in Tijuana while they wait to ask for asylum in the US."
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Patricia Leigh Brown, The Christian Science Monitor
Brown writes: "This year, Posada season is particularly resonant, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of farmworkers throughout the Central Valley, the tear-gassing of migrants at the border, and thousands of Central Americans living in limbo in Tijuana while they wait to ask for asylum in the US."
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Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy star in the film 'Trading Places' (1983), directed by John Landis. (photo: YES! Magazine)
What Your Favorite Christmas Movies Say About Social Justice
Joe Scott, YES! Magazine
Scott writes: "This year, aren't you hungry for more than just cozy? For you, the hungry, I offer this social justice nerd's tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly in Christmas cinema."
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Joe Scott, YES! Magazine
Scott writes: "This year, aren't you hungry for more than just cozy? For you, the hungry, I offer this social justice nerd's tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly in Christmas cinema."
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José Palacios, a cacao farmer, holds the Late Chocó chocolate products produced by his son, Joel, in Bogotá. The package bears an illustration of his likeness. José Palacios lives in Colombia's western Chocó department, which is also a coca-growing region. (photo: Verónica Zaragovia/NPR)
From Cocaine to Cacao: One Man's Mission to Save Colombia's Farmers Through Chocolate
Verónica Zaragovia, NPR
Zaragovia writes: "Joel Palacios shocked friends and family by quitting his plum job at the Ministry of the Interior working on behalf of Afro-Colombians. 'I stopped being 'doctor Joel,'' he says. Instead, he sold his belongings and, in 2010, moved to the rural Choco department of Colombia."
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Verónica Zaragovia, NPR
Zaragovia writes: "Joel Palacios shocked friends and family by quitting his plum job at the Ministry of the Interior working on behalf of Afro-Colombians. 'I stopped being 'doctor Joel,'' he says. Instead, he sold his belongings and, in 2010, moved to the rural Choco department of Colombia."
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Plastic bags in landfills can be carried by wind and caught in trees. (photo: European Parliament)
Our Complicated Relationship With Plastic: 5 Essential Reads
Martin LaMonica, The Conversation
LaMonica writes: "We took a broad view of plastic, working with scholars to explain not only the environmental and health effects but also its cultural contribution and the industries that handle plastic goods - and waste."
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Martin LaMonica, The Conversation
LaMonica writes: "We took a broad view of plastic, working with scholars to explain not only the environmental and health effects but also its cultural contribution and the industries that handle plastic goods - and waste."
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