Subject: Uprising! Hi there, My name is Aisha daughter of Shukri Ghanem. We fled from Libya last year following the uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi. My father’s death is no longer news but my mother’s deteriorating health made me want to do this despite the fact that I barely know you. I believe in my […]
In possibly the funniest thing that’s ever happened to me on the Internet (and please remember that I’ve been called a fattie by the daughter of the Uzbek dictator and crowdfunded my ticket to troll a Thomas Friedman event), the New York Times, that paper of record, has today issued a correction that’s been called […]
Oh man, this really resonated with me. After Errol Louis tweeted about not understanding why a poor person would shell out for a $2,500 bag, my Facebook and Twitter feeds went wild – total disagreement over what’s acceptable here. I didn’t grow up poor poor, but I didn’t grow up wealthy either. And I remember very […]