On the Road With Jacob Collier
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, we went to Irving Plaza in New York City to get to know Jacob Collier, the 24-year-old hyper-kinetic, preternaturally talented British composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. Collier began releasing YouTube videos in his teens that featured complex arrangements of pop songs and playfully…
The US Is Accused of Blocking Global Action Against Plastic Pollution
This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Environmental groups involved in talks at a United Nations conference in Kenya have accused the US of blocking an ambitious global response to plastic pollution. Representatives of countries at the UN environment conference in Nairobi this week agreed to significantly reduce single-use plastics over…
These Photos of Kids Protesting Climate Change All Over the World Will Give You Hope for the Future
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Young people all over the world skipped school Friday and followed the example of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager who has been striking most Fridays since 2018 to demand political leaders’ attention to climate change. As my colleague Rebecca Leber explains: These young people…
Melvv’s “Blank” Provides the Sound to Ponder Life’s More Complicated Questions
Melvv Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: “Blank” by Melvv (Atlantic Recording, 2019) Why we’re into it: A track for those days when you accept that life sometimes is so overwhelming, the best you can do is just feel…nothing. Melvv has long distinguished himself by creating the kind of tracks that stand out from…
How the Suspected New Zealand Gunman Weaponized the Internet
Members of the anti-terrorism campaign Turn to Love hold signs outside the New Zealand High Commission in London on Friday, following the mosque attacks.Jonathan Brady/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After every mass murder, journalists, researchers, and horrified members of the public turn to the internet as…
New Zealand Attack Underscores Social Media Sites’ Tolerance of Anti-Muslim Content
A police officer directs pedestrians near the site of one of the mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Saturday. Mark Baker/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a year ago, Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress that Facebook does not allow hate groups on its platform. “If there’s…