I called a friend in Mumbai, Shashank Joshi, who is a member of his state’s
COVID-19 task force. “Our I.C.U.s are nearly empty,” he told me. Joshi is a doctor with seemingly infinite reserves of energy: a stethoscope perpetually dangling across his chest, he has spent the past several months carrouselling among slums, hospitals, and government offices, coördinating the state’s response. Early last spring, when the first serious spread of
COVID-19 was reported in India, Joshi jumped into action. Dharavi, in Mumbai, is Asia’s largest slum: a million residents live in shanties, some packed so closely together that they can hear their neighbors’ snores at night. When I visited it a few years ago, open drains were spilling water onto crowded lanes. (The next monsoon season, three young boys fell into the drains and died.) The tin roofs of the houses overlapped one another like fish scales; a roadside tap dripped a brown fluid that passed for potable water. When a toddler
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A coalition of nearly 200 Christian institutions of higher education across North America has launched a new database providing resources to “identify how racism has affected and shaped the work of Christian higher education.”
The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities established a database of racial and ethnic diversity resources this week. According to the database’s vision and purpose statement, “The resources on this website are intended to assist institutional leaders at Christian colleges and universities in facilitating learning and leading conversations.”
“The CCCU believes that God desires his people to be reconciled with him and with each other. The history of the human race is replete with profound racial discord, in spite of substantial efforts to address it (as seen in the resources on this site),” the statement reads.
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Seattle Law Could Spell Big Trouble for Amazon, Facebook, and Other Big Tech Companies If They Engage in Political Censorship
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SEATTLE, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As state and federal lawmakers consider drafting new legislation to counter big tech censorship of dissenting political voices, few seem to realize that a little-known anti-discrimination law already on the books in Seattle could spell big trouble for big tech companies that engage in political censorship, according to Discovery Institute.
The Seattle law expressly forbids businesses from discriminating on the basis of political ideology when contracting for goods or services.
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