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...need to launch substantive financial reform rather than weighing the faults of one firm versus another." Minow's point is this: spend too much time on Goldman and you miss the fact of how broadly the financial system and the regulations that are supposed to keep profiteers in check failed us. And she's right...
...women athletes in a country where men take sports very seriously but women win medals and championships. "It is a strange phenomenon. There are few countries in the world where the most respected athletes, the role models, all happen to be women," says Congresswoman Gabriela Perez de Solar. (Check out a story about how Title IX revolutionized U.S. women's sports...
...kids don't suffer, extraordinarily, from divorce: "Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal...
...write more. So far, every one of us has been getting at least one or two bylines online a week, sometimes every day. While we were awkwardly relegated to a side room before, now we have desks in the center of the newsroom. We no longer have to fact-check every print article for the week’s paper: Fact-checking (by interns) has been abolished. Now, we simply report and write...
...matter the medium or subject matter, journalists need to provide a sustained check on power now more than ever before. Climate change is worsening, the financial crisis could leave the United States permanently weaker, and even just neglecting to repair an airplane or subway train can render consequences. So, even though the castle of print journalism is falling, a stronger city—with buildings old and new—needs to rise from this siege soon...