Software company sends message to workforce addressing access to reproductive healthcareThe cloud-based software giant Salesforce is offering to help relocate employees out of Texas following the state’s enactment of its extreme new abortion law.Referr…
Dismissed and derided when they stood, it’s time to reassess the twin towers | Rowan Moore
Twenty years after their destruction, we can finally see Yamasaki’s landmark pillars in all their gloryFew buildings illustrated architecture’s power to be different things to different people at different times than the twin towers of the World Trade…
US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds
Zemari Ahmadi, who died alongside nine others had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation suggestedThe US mistakenly targeted and killed an innocent aid worker for an American company in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the New York Ti…
‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history
Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the policeThe rain pattered lightly on the harbour of the Belgian port city…
On 9/11 I learned there are no guarantees in life | Hadley Freeman
I was in the city for fashion week, and while many memories have faded, odd details remain – along with the shock and sorrowOver the past two decades, 9/11 has taken on all kinds of different meanings for people, from the end of American dominance to t…
‘Tomorrow they will kill me’: Afghan female police officers live in fear of Taliban reprisals
With at least four women, including a pregnant mother, targeted and killed by Taliban fighters, female ex-officers feel abandoned by the worldNegar Masumi, a female police officer with 15 years of experience, was determined not to flee when the Taliban…
The lesson we failed to learn from 9/11: peace is impossible if we don’t talk to our enemies | Jonathan Powell
We should have engaged with the Taliban 20 years ago, but we thought the winner takes all. It undermined our own armed forcesJonathan Powell was Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1995 to 2007The fall of Kabul 20 years after 9/11 represents not just the …
Al Sharpton calls on Biden to fight the filibuster: ‘If we can’t depend on you here, when can we?’
The veteran civil rights leader is determined to dismantle the centuries-old Senate tool in the battle for voting rights – will Biden join him?Earlier this summer, Al Sharpton traveled to Philadelphia to attend Joe Biden’s speech on voting rights. Afte…
‘Muslims were so demonized’: Mehdi Hasan, Zainab Johnson, Keith Ellison and more on 9/11’s aftermath
Muslim Americans in the arts, politics, healthcare, education and media reflect on the past 20 yearsTwenty years ago, 19 men flew commercial planes into New York’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon in Washington DC. A total of 2,977 people died and several …
Biden announces new US vaccine mandates to ‘turn the tide of Covid-19’
Nearly 100m US workers to be subject to vaccine requirementsPresident expresses frustration with unvaccinated AmericansJoe Biden, striving to restore public confidence in his handling of the pandemic, announced on Thursday new vaccination requirements …