Aaron Gell

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Aaron Gell

One afternoon in February, hoping to survive the apocalypse or at least avoid finding myself among its earliest victims, I logged on to an online course entitled Ruggedize Your Life: The Basics. Some of my classmates had activated their cameras. I scrolled through the little windows, noting the alarmed faces, downcast in cold laptop light. There were dozens of us on the call, including a geophysicist, an actor, a retired financial adviser and a civil engineer. We all looked worried, and rightly so.

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Aaron Gell

Sharnalle Mitchell was at her home in Montgomery, Alabama, one evening in January 2014, watching TV with her two young children, when police showed up and took her into custody. It seems she’d neglected to pay a traffic fine issued years before. Unable to make bail, Mitchell spent the night locked up, after which she was brought into court, where a judge informed her that, due to additional surcharges, she was now on the hook for several thousand dollars.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Aaron Gell

Sharnalle Mitchell was at her home in Montgomery, Alabama, one evening in January 2014, watching TV with her two young children, when police showed up and took her into custody. It seems she’d neglected to pay a traffic fine issued years before. Unable to make bail, Mitchell spent the night locked up, after which she was brought into court, where a judge informed her that, due to additional surcharges, she was now on the hook for several thousand dollars.

2 months ago | newrepublic.com | Aaron Gell

The day after the U.S. president announced his plan toturn the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Francesca Albanese was asked about theidea at a Copenhagen press conference. Rolling her eyes behind trademark black-framed spectacles,the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinianterritories took in a sharp breath, as if to steady her nerves, and leveleda sympathetic gaze at her audience. “Prrresident Trumppp—oh, where to start,”she began, with an exasperated stage growl.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Aaron Gell

The day after the U.S. president announced his plan to turn the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Francesca Albanese was asked about the idea at a Copenhagen press conference. Rolling her eyes behind trademark black-framed spectacles, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories took in a sharp breath, as if to steady her nerves, and leveled a sympathetic gaze at her audience.