December 2023

10 years after the Dayton agreement that officially ended the conflict, Hazira’s brother Merfin stepped on a landmine near a refugee camp and died. Hazira later framed his obituary photograph in a broken frame and tapped over it with the only tape she had: an orange safety tape with German printed on top of it. The warning, among others,…

Books & the Arts / December 13, 2023 What About Black Life? The art of everyday Black experience. Christina Sharpe and the Art of Everyday Black Life In Ordinary Notes, Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.” Omari Weekes Ad Policy The author’s mother, 1927. (Courtesy of Farrar, Straus…

Feature / December 13, 2023 How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business Once upon a time, six companies controlled the media in this country. That, it turns out, was the good old days… Thomas Schatz Illustration by Brian Stauffer. This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue, with the headline…

The Front Burner / December 13, 2023 The Invisible Victims of Anti-Black Policing Racist policing is also deadly for Black women and girls—a reality that is far too often ignored or dismissed. Kali Holloway Ad Policy (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / AP Photo) This article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue, with the headline…

Feature / December 13, 2023 The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Own Media Company How to throw off the corporate shackles and launch an independent news outlet. This, but better: Goodbye, bad corporate thing that you don’t run, Hello, good indie thing that you DO run. (Details of thing TBD.) (Clockwise, top right: Underwood Archives…

5 minutes ago About sharing Russia’s strike caused considerable damage, which Kyiv blamed on debris from 10 ballistic missiles it had shot down By Jessica Parker & George Wright BBC News in Kyiv and London Dozens of people have been injured in a wave of missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight, authorities say….

5 hours ago About sharing Netflix has released a report showing data for 100 billion hours of streaming By Suranjana Tewari BBC News Netflix has released viewer data on 99% of its catalogue for the first time. Users around the world watched The Night Agent for 812m hours, making the political thriller its most viewed…

7 hours ago About sharing Dwight Pile-Grey has a 16-year Army career before the incident By Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent, BBC News One of the British Army’s first Rastafarian guardsmen has won a claim of race discrimination and harassment against the Ministry of Defence. Dwight Pile-Grey says his 16-year Army career was brought to an…