Will one of India’s most celebrated writers really face prosecution for things she said more than a decade ago? Last week, 14 years after the original complaint, Delhi’s most senior official granted permission for the Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy to be prosecuted under India’s stringent anti-terror laws. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) is […]
Prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work, sometimes picking crops in triple-digit heat for pennies an hour or nothing at all, Sen. Cory Booker said at a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on prison labor Tuesday. America locks up more people than almost any […]
The Booker Prize-winning author, Douglas Stuart, has lent his support to the Aye Write book festival, which has been cancelled this year as a funding bid was refused. The Glasgow-born author of Shuggie Bain also offered a sharp critique of arts and culture funding in Scotland, comparing it unfavourably to Ireland’s. Other writers who have […]
Target is pulling a Black History Month item full of glaring errors off its shelves in the wake of a viral TikTok post pointing out misnamed historic figures. The product, called “Civil Rights Magnetic Learning Activity,” puts the wrong names to the faces of icons including W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. TikTok user […]
It is sometime in the future and the U.S. is at war. The 82nd Airborne Division has been ordered to conduct a Joint Forcible Entry in enemy territory. After the paratroopers seize an airfield and secure its perimeter, the call goes out for the next stage of the operation, and combat-ready armor support commanded by […]