Lynn Ma, NYCity News Service, Chalkbeat New York This story originally appeared on Dec. 13 in the NYCity News Service, run by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Logan Lane was 11 when she got her first smartphone. Like many kids, she started using Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. When she was
by Lynzy Billing ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. For more than two decades, the U.S. military has been barred from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit “gross violations of internationally recognized
This paper aims to shed light on a very intense period of relations between Albania and the Soviet Union (USSR), focusing on the period from 1948 with the intensification of Albania’s relations with the USSR until the termination of diplomatic relations in 1959. The main objective of this paper is to know the
by Andrew Pantazi, The TributaryDecember 9, 2022 According to the version of events that Jacksonville’s city lawyers told a federal court, the City Council passed a redistricting map last month that carefully considered many factors. The council wanted a map that was “as logical and compact a geographical pattern as possible”, one that
Many people go their entire lives knowing little about their relatives’ childhoods and formative experiences. Westend61/Getty Images Elizabeth Keating, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts How is it possible to spend so much time with your parents and grandparents and not really know them? This question has puzzled me
An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks By: Dara Kerr In St. Louis, a narrow and quiet street, shadowed with trees, has haunted Brian Blagoue since the spring of 2021. It’s where two passengers carjacked him at gunpoint
The Duke and Duchess have revealed a host of previously unseen photographs for the documentary. Courtesy of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex Laura Clancy, Lancaster University As an expert in the contemporary British monarchy, I watched the first three episodes of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new
Originally published by The 19th Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said she’s leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent, which would make her the first independent woman senator in history. “Like a lot of Arizonans, I have never fit perfectly in either national party,” Sinema wrote in an op-ed published in
Claire Burchett, King’s College London Police have arrested 25 people accused of planning to overthrow the German government in a series of raids across the country. The group is accused of trying to instate Heinrich XIII – a descendant of German royalty – as their leader. Among those arrested were members of the
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory By Jane M. Friedman This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. As a journalist in Israel in the 1980s,