Anny Oberlink

Soaring freight rates. Delayed Halloween costumes. A computer chip shortage. Even after nearly two years of headaches fueled by the pandemic, shipping gridlocks and snarled routes remain hurdles in the supply chain. By the end of 2021, nearly 77 percent of the world’s ports were experiencing delays, the economic researcher Moody’s Analytics warned, adding that […]

A rape conviction from nearly 40 years ago involving best-selling author Alice Sebold was overturned last week after the authorities determined that the 1982 conviction was flawed because it relied on a forensic technique that has since been debunked: microscopic hair analysis. Anthony J. Broadwater, now 61, spent 16 years in prison after he was convicted of […]

Oil company executives testified before the House Oversight Committee last week on the industry’s role in climate change. The C.E.O.s had a message for the American public: Fossil fuels aren’t going anywhere soon. The House probe, modelled on the landmark 1994 Big Tobacco hearing where tobacco executives argued under oath that smoking was not addictive, […]

Tens of thousands of workers, protesting stagnant wages and hazardous working conditions worsened by the pandemic, are rising up in a wave of worker strikes and strike threats this month, sometimes dubbed “Striketober.” Kellogg’s, Kaiser Permanente, John Deere, and Hollywood have felt the effects. Renewed interest in unionizing is energizing the American labor movement, which […]

Built into President Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, now stalled in Congress, is a small program dedicated to reconnecting communities — particularly communities of color — that were separated and destroyed during construction of the nation’s sprawling transportation network: the Interstate Highway System. A daily fixture for 115 million commuters, the highway system is coming under […]

With the fall of Kabul, the radical Islamic Taliban, known for extreme views and brutal treatment of women and girls, is back in control in Afghanistan. One of the tragic consequences of the U.S. withdrawal and the collapse of the country is that the lives of women and girls there could soon become a lot […]