Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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Context matters. Take this simple statement: Nearly 10 percent of the world’s people live in extreme poverty. This is true. And standing alone, without context, this statement would lead many to think the world has a huge poverty problem. They'd be right. But they'd also be missing a big part of the story: Just twenty-five years ago nearly 30 percent of people lived in extreme poverty. So the world’s extreme poverty problem is actually getting much better. The prospects for the future would be very different if, instead of steadily imp...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was perhaps the most consequential attorney in American history. As an advocate, she transformed the landscape for womens' rights. And, as a Justice on the Supreme Court, she authored numerous groundbreaking opinions. Her death on Friday may also be immensely consequential: Her departure from the Supreme Court might change the winner of the 2020 presidential election from Joe Biden to Donald Trump. The 2020 election may be decided by the Supreme Court – just like it was in 2...
Over 60,000 prisoners in the U.S. have been infected by COVID-19. And the number of infections is rising at an alarming rate. This gratuitous suffering and death – helpless people trapped in large numbers as the virus engulfs their close quarters – is a tragedy. The widespread release of vulnerable and nonviolent prisoners must happen. Right now. Yet the COVID-19 emergency only scratches the surface of the deficiencies in the American prison system. It has numerous fundamental problems. First, the conditions in US prisons have long been ter...
