Digital artwork by Adam Ferriss I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the …
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The dispute between the recently arrested sex therapist named Jaruma and Ned Nwoko, the billionaire businessman, has raised questions on the boundary between criminal and civil defamation in Nigeria. Legal practitioners have also questioned the need for police involvement in what could have been just another case for the civil courts. Last November, Regina Daniels, Nwoko’s wife, had disowned Jaruma …
The UK government’s attempt to strip a British-Pakistani woman of her citizenship without telling her was unlawful, a split Court of Appeal has confirmed. Lord Justice Baker and Lady Justice Whipple held that the regulation allowing notice of citizenship deprivation to be placed “on file” is ultra vires the British Nationality Act 1981, which requires the Home …
Moscow Mitch, a Asshole-American First off, McConnell knows how misleading this is. He ignores all the hoops and hurdles Black voters (and the young and the elderly) have to jump through and over not only to register to vote, but to actually cast a vote on Election Day. This doesn’t even take into account the …
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The author (center) with her little brother (in the green coat) and the rest of their family in 1969. "While other family members refuse to engage, I’m triggered into a primordial rage by the videos he texts me 'because he loves me and wants to help me wake up before it’s too late.'" My brother …
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