How a Former Felon Became a Kitchen Ninja
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of this year’s Oscar-nominated short documentaries takes a look at an ambitious project to give former inmates a second chance and attempt to create the best French eatery in the country. Knife Skills documents the opening of Edwins and explores what it’s like for the…
How Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea Wore the Bastards Down
Joe Mazza/Brave-Lux Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Big Angel—patriarch of the De La Cruz clan, “El Jefe” emblazoned on his coffee mug, a man who once “could make the walls crack with his voice”—is dying of cancer. Relegated to a wheelchair, he realizes that “somebody was going to have to…
There’s More to Sharp Images Than Just a Good Lens
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I mentioned this afternoon that my picture of Hopper with the new camera was so sharp it was almost too sharp. In fact, when I first took the picture last Monday I wondered if there was more than just a high-quality lens at work. Maybe…
The Warped Environmentalism of America’s Biggest Industrial Meat Producer
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Justin Whitmore has the unenviable job of trying to make the nation’s biggest industrial meat company look virtuous. The 35-year-old former McKinsey consultant became Tyson Foods’ first sustainability chief in…
Elizabeth Warren Calls Betsy DeVos “The Worst Secretary Of Education This Country Has Ever Seen”
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In her first year overseeing the Education Department, Secretary Betsy DeVos has been “a boon for for-profit colleges, student loan companies, and advocates of school privatization,” while harming public school students of all ages, according to a report released Thursday by two Massachusetts Democrats,…
Crime Didn’t Drop In New York City Because of CompStat
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What is the deal with New Yorkers? Here is Chris Smith on CompStat, the computerized crime-tracking system first used in New York: No New York invention, arguably, has saved more lives in the past 24 years. CompStat has helped drive down the city’s crime rates…