Love & Death in the Time of Cholera

Think now 

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors 

And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, 

Guides us by vanities.   by T.S. Eliot

INDIA

India has its reasons to boycott China’s Belt Road Initiative

India nears approval of first GM food crop

India is the Second Largest Source of Components Used by the Islamic State to Make Explosives, Report Says

Top White House aide likely the next ambassador to India

India’s prime minister is not as much of a reformer as he seems

When Modi meets Trump: Where do U.S.-India relations stand?

YEMEN

America will regret helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen OPINION

Yemen spiraling toward 'total collapse' as world watches, UN warns

How war brought cholera and polio back to the Middle East

In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates

Yemen: UAE Backs Abusive Local Forces

READ

Who Is Rich? FICTION

What My Body Remembers FICTION

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions NONFICTION

ICE

Atlanta immigration detainee dies 

Immigration arrests soar under Trump; sharpest spike seen for noncriminals

ICE immigration arrests of noncriminals double under Trump

ICE courthouse arrests worry attorneys, prosecuters

Will the Trump administration send Iraqi minorities home — and into danger? OPINION

JEFFERSON BEAUREGARD SESSIONS III

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has acute memory lapses, and is unfit to serve as Attorney General 

·        "Sessions can probably get out of ever giving the answer to a Republican Congress, but my guess is his performance earned him a ticket to a grand jury."  -- Matt Miller, an Obama Justice Department official 

Sessions praises Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein

Reporter: How would you rate the president’s level of confidence in Attorney General Jeff Sessions?

Spicer: I have not had a discussion with him about that.

Embattled AG Sessions Gets Vote of Confidence from Pence

Attorney General Sessions retains a personal attorney

Tucker Carlson continued his nightly defense of Sessions with a sarcastic: "It's always possible that a high-level defector will appear ... with documents proving that Jeff Sessions is, in fact, a foreign agent, ... perhaps of a sleeper cell sent to Alabama during the Cold War and activated at Vladimir Putin's request during the last election."

Grassley: Comey must say if FBI investigated Sessions

Jeff Sessions wants a new war on drugs. It won’t work. OPINION

FREE SPEECH

Supreme Court sides with band The Slants in fight over disparaging trademarks 

The Supreme Court gives the country some necessary guidance on free speech

Derogatory trademarks aren’t about free speech. They’re about discrimination. OPINION

Commentary symposium regarding threats to free speech OPINION

EDUCATION

Children who take the school bus have fewer absences 

Pipeline to the classroom: how big oil promotes fossil fuels to America's children

Education for people and planet

The Disinvestment hypothesis: Don’t blame state budget cuts for rising tuition at public universities

Eight economic facts on higher education

WHIMSEY

An Unknown Future for the Greater Sage-Grouse 

Of Shakespearean Lessons and Art That Makes Us Think OPINION

Meet The Richest Person In Every State 2017

  

NOTE: The news sources here vary.  Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here.  This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased.  Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value.  Thank you.