Author Archives: Jaime David

Visitor numbers expected to plummet by tens of millions in crisis that eclipses the 2004 tsunami, bird flu and Sars Koh Samui’s beaches are almost entirely devoid of people since the coronavirus pandemic began. Last year, 40 million tourists visited Thailand. Photograph: Marco Pompeo Photography/Alamy Stock Photo Rebecca Ratcliffe in Chaweng Published on Thu 23Continue reading “Deserted beaches, empty bars: Covid-19 devastates Thailand’s tourist islands — The Muslim Times”

My name is Maria Teresa Pratico and I’m a divorced mother of two teenage boys. I’m a woman living with Complex PTSD and am in remission from dissociative episodes related to flashbacks from my past traumas. I have overcome an eating disorder stemming from my extensive background in many forms of dance. I was Broadway […]Continue reading “Change — Luna”

This article in The New York Times is typical of a distinctive genre of American journalism on Israel and Palestine: vaguely pro-Palestinian in tone, vaguely critical of Israel by intention, but notably weak on recounting the alphabet-level basics–literally the ABCs–that the reader would need to know to understand the facts on the ground. The ABC’s ofContinue reading “The ABC’s of Occupation — Policy of Truth”

Electronic musicians are sampling the sounds of endangered birds as a way to save these lyrical creatures. In a new album called A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, artists are combining their own beats with the sounds of our feathered friends. And best of all: the proceeds from all […]Continue reading “The Sounds Of Endangered Birds — LustWithoutYou”

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler accused federal officers of an “egregious overreaction” and “engaging in urban warfare” after being caught in tear gas while protesting Wednesday night, according to videos posted on Twitter by The New York Times. Wheeler can be seen wearing goggles and a mask, closing his eyes and holding his nose in a… PortlandContinue reading “Portland Mayor Tear Gassed at Protests, Accuses Federal Officers of Engaging in ‘Urban Warfare’ — TIME”

Judy Heumann remembers the day she went to register for kindergarten in 1952. She’d gotten dressed up and her mother had pulled her wheelchair up a flight of stairs before the principal intervened. Her disability, he said, meant she was not allowed to attend the school. Heumann had polio as a child, and it left… 30Continue reading “30 Years After a Landmark Disability Law, the Fight for Access and Equality Continues — TIME”

Send in your photos, please! Today we have a sequence of butterfly development taken by reader David Fuqua, whose captions are indented. My wife, Debra, and I have been staying at home like we are supposed to. We have enjoyed the opportunity to observe the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). Debra bought […]Continue reading “Readers’ wildlife photos — Why Evolution Is True”

A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist. ‘I Mostly Feel Like My Voice Matters’: A Portland Journalist on Protests, Police Violence, and Enduring Trauma — Longreads

(WASHINGTON) — The viral pandemic’s resurgence caused the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits to rise last week for the first time in nearly four months, evidence of the deepening economic pain the outbreak is causing. The increase in weekly jobless claims to 1.4 million served to underscore the outsize role the unemployment insurance system… FirstContinue reading “First Increase in People Seeking U.S. Jobless Aid Since March Pointing to Deepening Economic Pain — TIME”