“So. Monday. We meet again.
We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.”
– Julio-Alexi Genao
Ordinary World
Monday 8 Oct 18
World:
[Wo1] Fiona Ehlers for Der Speigel: A Visit to the Killing Fields of Yemen: The forgotten war in Yemen has entered its fourth year and peace is nowhere in sight. With the healthcare system in shambles and bombs falling every day, it is the civilian population that suffers the most. A visit to North Yemen.
[Wo2] Ingrid Melander for Reuters – French police probe Interpol chief’s disappearance on China trip
[Wo3] Speaking of Interpol, from Josh Margolin for ABC News: “Like so much in law enforcement, the myth of Interpol has to be separated from the reality.”
[Wo4] Mansoureh Mills for Time – She Was a Teenage Victim of Domestic Violence and Rape. She Sought Help. This Week, Iran Executed Her.
[Wo5] Richard Purcell for Arc Digital – Never Again?? — How The Rohingya Crisis Became A Genocide The world’s failure to prevent ethnic cleansing in Burma.
Economy:
[Ec1]Salvatore Babones for Foreign Policy – The World’s First Immigration Economy: Australia’s economy is addicted to immigration, requiring ever-increasing infusions of new people to stave off an inevitable collapse.
[Ec2] Keris Lahiff for CNBC – A red flashing light in the housing market could spell trouble for the economy.
[Ec3] Andrew Walker of BBC – What’s behind Italy’s economic turbulence?
Data
[Da1] Pew – Women and Leadership 2018: Wide gender and party gaps in views about the state of female leadership and the obstacles women face.
[Da2] Julia Wolfe for 538 – A Better Way To Think About September’s Jobs Numbers: The context you need to understand job growth and unemployment in the U.S., updated every month.
[Da3] The Chronicle of Higher Education – Nine sortable tables to discover how the states and the District of Columbia compare with each other and with the nation over all in terms of their demographic challenges, the educational level of their residents, faculty pay, college enrollment, diversity, graduation rates, tuition costs, and much more.
Per OT EiC Will Truman’s request:
Born and raised in West Virginia, Andrew has since lived and traveled around the world several times over. Though frequently writing about politics out of a sense of duty and love of country, most of the time he would prefer discussions on history, culture, occasionally nerding on aviation, and his amateur foodie tendencies. He can usually be found misspelling/misusing words on Twitter @four4thefire.
Da3: I see that the Colorado Paradox — an actual thing in the literature — is still alive and well. We have a highly-educated adult population, but do a relatively poor job of graduating our kids from high school and getting them into college. There’s an old joke, “If you eat at a high-end restaurant in Aspen or Vail, chances are good your waitperson has a better degree than you do.” My daughter tells me that this is spreading to Fort Collins, in the form of “Your barista probably has a better degree than you do” because so many CSU students have decided to stay in town after they graduate.
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