New Orleans Recently, I reacted to a Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times about the controversy around Greg Mortenson, his charity – the Central Asia Institute, the author and journalist Jon Krakauer and his expose. I thought Kristof’s mea culpa about Mortenson being his friend and his hope that there was “another side …
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Canadian Farm Workers Court Setback but Workers’ Rights Advance
Vancouver The election news was hard last night, even though there was a lot of “on the one hand, and on the other hand,” because the Conservative, hard right party won a majority and a 5-year guarantee on federal political control. On the other hand, the New Democratic Party (NDP) after 50 years became the …
Snow, Favelas, and Malcolm X
Coer d’ Alene My son, Chaco, and I had pulled off the grid 21 miles east of Missoula at the signpost advertising the annual “Teste-Feste” every summer, an event we simply hustle by on the way up Rock Creek. As we lost cell service and email access to our surprise we were greeted by snow. …