"New technology promises to forecast the length of your life. But for disabled people, measuring mortality can prove fatal.”

"Barbara Arnwine, William J. Barber II, Penda Hair and Jesse Jackson Sr. write now that Republicans have killed debate on the For the People Act, every Democratic senator must act to protect voting rights and save our democracy from a death _...Read More_

>"International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson to argue Australia failed to protect Dungay’s right to life and _...Read More_

"Leading thinkers on technology and culture are understandably far more focused on exciting potential futures not on the most grim of inevitabilities. Nevertheless:people die. For most of us,the fates of tweets and status updates and the _...Read More_

The Justice Department is launching a probe into policing practices in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd and the murder convictions for ex-cop Derek Chauvin, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday.

>"The families of 15 Indigenous people who died in custody want full _...Read More_

>"There is a kind of unsettledness, a wantonness in the German cult of trees. Der Wald is variously a sign of barbarity, unity, democracy, rebirth, nationalism and fascism, activism, or peace."

Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone by Sarah Jaffe. Bold Type Books, 432 pages.

>"Boris Groys" Becoming Immortal

I SAW HEAVEN, OR SOME VERSION OF IT, in the late 1990s. This was on the days I stayed home sick from school, bingeing on Corn Pops and reruns of Unsolved Mysteries. Back then, _...Read More_

It was exactly like a scene from Casualty. An ambulance, siren wailing, lights flashing, pulls up in the A&E bay of a hospital. Paramedics swiftly open the doors and wheel out an ashen-faced, barely conscious middle-aged man. Doctors _...Read More_

Very much motivation I got from that, couldn’t' stop tears. Yes, we move forward with it.