BBC: How to avoid awkward work conversations
10 October 2018 Alison Green For the last 11 years, I’ve written a workplace advice column, answering people’s letters on everything from how to tell a manager your workload is too high to what to […]
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NPR: Why Public Service Loan Forgiveness Is So Unforgiving
October 17, 20189:27 AM ET CORY TURNER On the morning of Monday, Aug. 27, Seth Frotman told his two young daughters that he would likely be home early that day and could take them to […]
NPR: FACT CHECK: Trump’s False Claims On ‘Medicare For All’
October 10, 20184:02 PM ET SCOTT HORSLEY USA Today published an opinion column by President Trump Wednesday in which the president falsely accused Democrats of trying to “eviscerate” Medicare, while defending his own record of […]
BBC: Five myths about sexual assault
26 September 2018 Linda Geddes Barely a week goes by now without another case of rape or historic sex abuse being splashed across the news and picked over by critics. Yet misunderstanding about the nature […]
NPR: Thousands Could Be Deported As Government Targets Asylum Mills’ Clients
September 28, 20184:46 PM ET AILSA CHANG NPR’s Planet Money has learned that more than 13,500 immigrants, mostly Chinese, who were granted asylum status years ago by the U.S. government, are facing possible deportation. As […]
NPR: Opinion: China’s Long Game On Human Rights
October 5, 20189:26 AM ET TED PICCONE Ted Piccone (@piccone_ted) is senior fellow, foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. When it comes to the contentious arena of international human rights, China has arrived. For decades, […]
VOA: CIA Interns Help Guard Nation’s Secrets
September 26, 2018 5:02 PM Abigail Rubel Donald Winzer Behind closed doors at the Central Intelligence Agency, an elite team of intelligence officers guards the nation’s secrets. A few of them aren’t old enough to […]
CNN: Fighting to bring ISIS to justice for war crimes against Yazidis
Updated 9:29 AM ET, Wed October 11, 2017 Jomana Karadsheh and Chris Jackson, CNN (CNN) Nadia was just 15 when ISIS fighters swarmed into her homeland. She says she was kidnapped, bought and sold by men […]
BBC: The frozen bodies of Antarctica
14 September 2018 Martha Henriques In the bleak, almost pristine land at the edge of the world, there are the frozen remains of human bodies – and each one tells a story of humanity’s relationship […]
Improving working conditions for e-waste recyclers
September 12, 2018 Nardy Baeza Bickel ANN ARBOR—It’s day time in Thailand and a group of eight people wearing dust masks and wool gloves sit around a large pile of discarded metal items. The workers […]