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The Latin American Exception

By Greg Grandin Tomgram
How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth

A Chat With Mike The Mailman, Who Delivers the Mail (For Now)

by Jia Tolentino The Billfold
“Mike the mailman" is friends with everybody, and serves as a sort of unofficial message board for our neighborhood. He recently had surgery after tearing two muscles in his shoulder, and I visited him at his house in Ypsilanti—a lower-income foil to collegiate Ann Arbor—to ask about his convalescence, his job, and the future of the postal service in America.

Spanish Doctors and Nurses Protest Privatisation

blade FRANCE 24
Thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and other health care workers demonstrated on Sunday in 16 cities against budget cuts and plans to partly privatise medical services.

Scientists Detail Severe Future Impacts of Climate Change

By Tiffany Stecker and ClimateWire Scientific American
At a U.S. Senate hearing, scientists warned that New Orleans, Florida and other places will be radically transformed if global warming is allowed to continue unabated.

Downton and Downward

Timothy Egan The New York Times
Is the U.S. a less upwardly mobile society than Britain a century ago?