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The United States is the worlds leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good. Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship between assistance and violence. She persuasively ...

Stephens wrote to colleagues Thursday about his piece on Donald McNeil Jr He told those wondering why it wasnt in the paper AG Sulzberger spiked it  The Times had initially allowed McNeil Jr. to keep his job after complaints he used the racial slur during a company funded school trip to Peru in 2019  But McNeil Jr. was forced out after 150 Times employees signed a letter saying they were deeply disturbed by the papers handling of the incident Management then said: We do not tolerate racist ...

The beleaguered New York Times continues to be plagued by internal issues and chaos as Gray Lady editors refused to publish a column by conservative columnist Bret Stephens, who intended to criticize the paper’s leadership.

The "resignation" of star New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has sparked a furious back-and-forth among Times staffers, many of whom are outraged over the Grey Lady’s handling of his departure. 

‘This Is Not the NYT I Know’: Staffers Fight over Paper Forcing Out Longtime Reporter Staff members at the New York Times are reportedly clashing after its longtime reporter Donald McNeil Jr. was forced to resign last week for using “racist language” in 2019. In posts to a private Facebook group, the Washington Free Beacon reportedly discovered Times staffers heatedly arguing about whether the ousting of McNeil, a science reporter who had been at the paper for 45 years, was justified....

McNeil Jr. was ousted following complaints he used the N-Word on a 2019 school trip in Peru   Former Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse hit out at those far more willing to sympathize with these privileged 15- and 16-year-olds than with a colleague Times crossword columnist Deb Amlen said: Why is it the focus almost always on ruining the perpetrators life, and not those who were harmed by [his actions] It was first reported last week that multiple students and parents had lodged complaint...

Amen-Amen-Amen. The trailer for the film was released this week and outlines the story of the first Jewish congregation in the UAE, which, in 2018, created a Torah scroll in honour of Sheikh Zayed, the Founding Father. In November 2019, the scroll was presented in a ceremony to Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, by the community’s rabbi and other members. Amen-Amen-Amen – its title derived from the holy word present in Arab...

Happening there. >> robert, this is not your first visit to yemen and when we talk about places that people dont already know that are already poor and set back, its hard to understand what a conflict like this does to a country like guess its easier understand when there are 20-plus million people in a humanitarian crisis. >> yes, well, thats whats striking about yemen is that it was the poorest country in the arab world even before this started. a place where people live close to the edge. its...