Utterly decent and excellent WashPo journalists were fired on the whim of a multi-multi billionaire and their colleagues are fundraising for them on gofundme to ensure a graceful and dignified exit.
In an interview on NPR's Wild Card podcast, Melinda French Gates reacts to her ex-husband, Bill Gates, being mentioned in the most recent release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. See the clip.
It was a choice to gut this storied institution.
I find it baffling that a household can be an employer but a court says they have no responsibilities as an employer, while a domestic worker, among the most vulnerable cohorts in India, is denied a basic wage because it might harm her employers and therefore harm her?
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It's heartbreaking to hear that @washingtonpost.com might be winding down its award-winning New Delhi bureau, which has done so much to hold South Asian governments to account. I heard an institution say that democracy dies in darkness, so why is it flicking off the lights?
A woman sits in the corner of her tiny one-room home in a slum in the eastern Indian city of Chennai. She harvested and sold her eggs to pay rent.
Shweta Desai and I on the underbelly of India's fertility industry, the women who provide the biomaterial that keep it going, largely poor, exploited and who live in the shadows. For @npr.org
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I've ran up and down the Himalayas for stories and hand on heart I don't think people understand how fragile mountains are.
If Aravalli Is Lost, Can North India Survive?
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“Don’t kid yourself it can’t happen here.”
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This is about the best breakdown on the restrictions of foreign reporters into Gaza, and how outlets like NPR report the conflict: with the excellent, tireless work of our Palestinian reporter, Anas Baba.
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"Hezbollah wants to be feared when it is strong and pitied when it is cornered. It wants total freedom to act and total forgiveness when the consequences arrive. It wants to decide the war and outsource the suffering."
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Report for America is recruiting, so young journalists, dazzle them:
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Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic it takes to be a lethal dose. n.pr/3XEhzsB
"For seabirds, ingesting just six tiny pieces of rubber, each smaller than about the size of a pea, can result in a 90 percent chance of death," Baechler said.
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a rare, good news story: In India, populations of the globally-threatened Olive Ridley sea turtles are rebounding after decades of patchwork efforts to protect them. One effort: inviting tourists to watch hatchlings lurch into the sea. (Of course there's caveats.)
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I cannot reiterate hard enough how shocking this would still look if it happened in any of the undemocratic places where I have worked: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-q...
All of this: "People who have dedicated their lives to studying one very specific thing share what is meaningful about that thing with others. In return, those of us listening experience the joy of learning something new"
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OK I laughed out loud at that one
Zohran Mamdani is American.
He's Ugandan.
He's Indian.
He's Muslim.
He's the son of a Hindu mom.
Meet NYC's new mayor:
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Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram following. "People are calling us the rebellious sisters!" Rita says. n.pr/43bcc7y
Zohran Kwame Mamdani is American.
Ugandan.
South Asian.
Muslim.
Son of a Hindu mother.
I unravel some of the threads that weave the cloth of Mamdani’s identity from Mumbai, where his father was born
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A story where I get to play clips of Zohran Mamdani rapping about his grandmother (with bleeps), the hottest scene out of Mississippi Masala and an ode to the chapati as I untangle the threads that weave the cloth of Zohran Mamdani's identity. A fun listen here:
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Yuval Abraham of @972mag.com reports: "Google and Amazon submitted to highly unorthodox “controls” that Israel inserted into the deal, in anticipation of legal challenges over its use of the technology in the occupied West Bank and Gaza."
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"a destruction of trust"
masked gunmen in unmarked vehicles snatching people, including American citizens off the streets
what an investigation by @npr.org
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A tale of two Indias: Hindu nationalists celebrate centenary celebrations. Across town, thousands renounce Hinduism and convert to Buddhism, in an event that celebrates the father of India's constitution, BR Ambedkar.
With Omkar Khandekar in Nagpur
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How to fall in love with India (again). An @npr.org postcard
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‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ (and repair, and refuse) but also: Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations.
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When I joined NPR in 2017, I was taken around the building and introduced to our "founding mother," a phrase I found baffling - and pleasantly subversive. As was Susan Stamberg herself.
There's a reason people called her Mama
May your next journey be as joyful
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And here's the skit that made me laugh through working this story: www.tiktok.com/@thedailysho...
Thanks so many folks who kindly gave their time for this story, from Sita B, Chinni, Shoumtiro Chatterjee, Pawan Gunturu, Arjili Dasu, advocates for American shrimpers, for the oceans, for a better shrimp industry. And Indian journalist @AlmaasMasood, who ate dust with me
