I was 6 when Don José surprised me with some cookies and milk before bed. I got so sleepy. The next day I woke up all bloody, with a cut on my ankle. Mami and my sister Valery washed me and bandaged my wound. It was not only my ankle that hurt. Everywhere, my body…
A conspiracy conceals its bad behavior behind allegations its opponents are crazed “conspiracy theorists.” Reporters expend column inches denouncing and denying facts revealed by the very investigative reporting that they refused to do themselves. Respected establishment organizations side against their own base rather than address the growing concerns of those who made them influential. Given…
Fallout 76Bethesda Game StudiosA longtime fan of both the Fallout series of video games and old-fashioned radio dramas, Kenneth Vigue saw Fallout 76 as a unique creative opportunity. With its wide-open online sandbox and diverse player base, here was a game that begged to be documented in all its glorious absurdity. Vigue started out writing…
AlabamaMontgomery: A recycling center that employs adults with intellectual disabilities should have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to its workers, federal labor officials said. The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced that employees were rightfully owed $540,000. Montgomery Arc and two of its partners – Hanan Center and McInnis Recycling Center – will now…
World Brightly-colored artwork by patients adorns the walls of the waiting room at a small community healthcare center in New York City, the result of a project by two young doctors on a mission to humanize medicine. FILE PHOTO: A self-portrait of a pediatric patient displayed on the wall of a medical clinic’s waiting room…
Well it’s all right, even if you’re old and grey Well it’s all right, you still got something to say… ~End of the Line, The Traveling Wilburys It’s that time of year again, the turn of the year, when many us take stock of the past 12 months and, depending …
(CNN) — New year, new rules. As people across the United States usher in a new decade, a wave of new laws will bring changes big and small. From car seats to natural hair, here are some of the ones going into effect in 2020. Minimum wages are going up Good news for workers. The…
Marty and Dana Gottesfeld. As I’ve recently learned from his wife, activist and prison journalist Marty Gottesfeld — recently sentenced to ten years for a denial of service attack on the website of the Boston hospital that was holding a young girl against her will and that of her family while denying her treatment for…
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There is a very simple reason why some Republicans voted for the impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon, but none have so far broken ranks against Trump. That reason is a corrupted U.S. Supreme Court. In 1976 (Buckley v. Valeo) and 1978 (First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti), the Supreme Court ruled that when corporations…
