If you enter the lower galleries of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts right now, you’ll encounter a postcard-like image described by the museum as “an intervention.” The image’s front side shows “this beautiful portrait of probably a queer person,” the other side, “a very direct statement on the genocide in Gaza,” according to its maker,…
Just a few years ago, if you read financial news at all, it was impossible to avoid headlines about Cathy Wood’s ARK Innovation fund. The fund’s performance was off the charts. What happened next is a story we’ve seen before, over and over: dollars pour into the fund, as investors don’t want to miss out,…
So last December, there was this brief video that was posted on social media. It showed members of a family, the Abu Salahs, dead on a street in Northern Gaza. I’m going to start the story by showing you that video. But just as a warning, it’s extremely graphic. Two brothers lay huddled with their…
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On Sept. 6, 1869, the Avondale Colliery mine near Plymouth, Pennsylvania, caught on fire, killing 110 workers. This disaster, one of the first major coal disasters in the United States, led to some of the nation’s first workplace safety laws — but ultimately, many thousands more workers would have to die before the nation took…