Ignoring it won’t make it go away. Cnn must broadcast from another planet. Network correspondent Donie O’Sullivan suggested recently — with a straight face — that political violence in the United States is almost entirely a right-wing phenomenon and that there simply is "no equivalent on the left." This isn’t just untrue. It’s dangerous.

A young Gazan photojournalist, Fatima Hassouna, was killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza this week, according to the Guardian. The Britsh newspaper reported Friday that Hassouna, 25, was killed Wednesday along with 10 members of her family, including her pregnant sister, several days before she was due to be married. “If I die, I want a loud death,” she wrote on social media, according to the report. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a...

As a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, the endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she demanded was that she not be allowed to go quietly. “If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an...

In the 12 years since Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, we’ve witnessed a rapid expansion of LGBTQ rights around the world. The pope’s death Monday is a reminder of the surprising ways his papacy was part of that wave of acceptance.  Francis set the tone early in his appointment, during an in-flight press conference aboard the jet nicknamed Shepherd One en route from Rio de Janeiro to Rome in July of 2013. When a...

Architects in The Netherlands won a competition to transform the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen—into a public swimming pool. Source: Extraordinary Reuse of Vacant Church: Transforming into a Public Swimming Pool in the Netherlands I love this idea.

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