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Journalist & Publisher. Admirer of Trees. Mum. 'Flâneuse'. GLOBAL HEALTH. Founder, Geneva Health Files https://bsky.app/profile/genevahealthfiles.bsky.social Alum: New York University & Geneva Graduate Institute
There is a Rule of Law Index. How is that going?
One cannot go to Hannah Arendt’s work for comfort, Jennifer Szalai writes of the German-born political thinker. What she offers instead is “the company of someone who had direct experience of the horrors of the 20th century yet never relinquished what she called amor mundi, or ‘love of the world.’”
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
So Obama does not endorse Mamdani? Too bad. And disappointing
Terrible framing from @nytimes.com on #ZohranMamdani
Calls it "most remarkable political upsets"
New York deserves better than New York Times.
A city of immigrants, led by an immigrant: Mamdani's words
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way
American NGOs can do this, many Indian NGOs cannot.
www.devex.com/news/us-nonp...
Happy Diwali
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My son stopped to observe the lake during our short run today. He is a romantic.
Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor. on.ft.com/476Dcr8
Hustling is an under-rated effort in entrepreneurship (sigh)
For anyone who cares to pay attention, the fact that major developers are lining up behind the NIMBY mayoral candidate tells you a lot about real-world housing politics and who the real shills tend to be in local YIMBY/NIMBY fights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
So what we do with men who stand in the way WHEN you are having a conversation :-/
Must confess women do it too. But so annoying all the same.