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Iceland hosts first major international #metoo conference – three-day gathering will explore why movement gained traction and effect it has had ~life.women Article 873 words 3 votes
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The myth of the free speech crisis: How overblown fears of censorship have normalised hate speech and silenced minorities Article 4626 words 21 votes
The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail Article 1053 words 7 votes
Women at war: Why do we still struggle with the idea of female soldiers? ~life.women Article 1613 words 8 votes
Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall housing Article 877 words 9 votes
The tyranny of the "ideal woman": How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization ~life.women Article 4548 words 9 votes
Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK. When the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim Article 4971 words, published Jul 26 2019 10 votes
How Finland is coping with an ageing population – online lunch clubs are the start of a remote care revolution Article 1169 words, published Jun 26 2019 9 votes
Breaking up is harder to do in Denmark after divorce law changes relationships Article 1052 words 10 votes
'We are sexual beings': Why Australian disability advocates want the NDIS to cover sexual services Article 1886 words 11 votes
Undocumented, vulnerable, scared: The US women who pick your food for $3 an hour ~life.women Article 1258 words 6 votes
'It's totally unfair': Chicago, where the rich live thirty years longer than the poor Article 1598 words 7 votes
BirthStrikers: Meet the women who refuse to have children until climate change ends ~life.women Article published Mar 12 2019 14 votes
Trapped in a hoax: Survivors of conspiracy theories speak out Article 4078 words, published Jan 24 2019 11 votes
Me and my quarter-life crisis: A millennial asks what went wrong Article 2542 words, published Dec 30 2018 7 votes
What happened next? The survivors of the Genoa bridge collapse: ‘We’ve been abandoned, as if nothing happened’ Article 1247 words 9 votes
30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis housing Article 4245 words 19 votes
The business of voluntourism: Do western do-gooders actually do harm? work Article 5309 words, published Sep 13 2018 13 votes
Man mocked on Twitter for shaving on train says he was homeless and trying to clean up Article 15 votes
The YouTube stars heading for burnout: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’ work Article 3158 words 33 votes
US inmates claim retaliation by prison officials as result of multi-state strike work Article 891 words, published Aug 31 2018 23 votes
In the Cape Town enclave that survived apartheid, the new enemy is gentrification Article 1137 words 4 votes
My son, Osama: The al-Qaida leader’s mother speaks for the first time parenting Article 1848 words 11 votes
Generation Z: ‘We have more to do than drink and take drugs’ Article 1420 words, published Jul 21 2018 6 votes
Should we treat crime as something to be cured rather than punished? Scotland’s police force has adopted a public health model to tackle violence. Should the rest of the world follow suit? Article 3855 words 20 votes
Trained to shoot: The Utah teachers taking up guns in their classrooms education Article 1756 words 9 votes
Work less, get more: New Zealand firm's four-day week an 'unmitigated success' work Article 719 words 15 votes