Still with the Scarlet Letters
Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping…
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WHERE I WRITE #1: Hotels, Highways, Hotspots, Haiti
If I were independently wealthy, I would be less for it, because the chase for money to pay for food, shelter, babies, and now small children has taken me from…
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
David Grann compiles a decade of investigative profiles from The New Yorker and elsewhere in a compelling study of the dark side.
Politics Sunday
Here’s lots of good info on the situation in Chile, and here’s some more. We’re all thinking of folks down there. Who wants a Sumatran tiger for a pet? “The inescapable truth…
Politics Sunday
“One in four Americans is employed to protect the rich.” Here’s an underreported story: Dominicans are coming to the aid of Haitians, despite a less-than-idyllic history between the two countries.…
Rebecca Solnit On Looting
“And in disaster after disaster, at least since the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, those in power, those with guns and the force of law behind them, are too often…
The Latest on Haiti
Some people in Haiti are riding out the earthquake in decent shape. Any guesses who? As we mentioned yesterday,
A Kidnapping in Haiti
“In a few weeks, the international media will leave the country, and Americans will be free to forget about Haiti once again. It is my hope that this story will…
The Latest from Haiti
Haiti tries to go from rescue to recovery to relief. And if you’re looking for people to follow via Twitter, Jay Newton-Small, the writer of the above piece is a…
The Latest from Haiti
There’s some understandable frustration among Haitians about the slow pace of the aid coming in. Daniel Kaszor explains why getting aid to the people who need it is so difficult.…
A Letter from Satan to Pat Robertson
I don’t know who Lily Coyle of Minneapolis, Minnesota is, but if I ever meet her, I might have to kiss her for this letter to the editor of the…
More on Haiti Part 6
Craig Ferguson has a suggestion for Rush Limbaugh, and also shows that he understands how unimportant his job is in comparison to real concerns and issues. Peter Jamison wonders if…