Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads. Here are this week’s recommendations:
Twice Accused of Sexual Assault, He Was Let Go by Army Commanders. He Attacked Again. (Vianna Davila, Lexi Churchill and Ren Larson / ProPublica)
Soldiers accused of sexual assault are less than half as likely to be placed in pretrial confinement than those accused of offenses like drug use and distribution, disobeying an officer or burglary.
The analysis showed that, on average, soldiers had to face at least eight counts of sexual offenses before they were placed in pretrial confinement as often as soldiers charged with drug or burglary crimes.
The Secret Life of Leftovers (Nat Watkins / The New Atlantis)
Naturally, the scavenging life is not to everyone’s taste. Many will think dumpster-diving is just outrageous. But what is actually absurd is to tolerate a food system and a culture that wastes as much food as we do. That we are seemingly faced with these two extreme choices — succumbing to a system that requires entire dumpsters just for food, or diving into them to get it back out — goes to show the scale of our predicament. A persuasive alternative may have to begin somewhere in between, slowly, in our minds and in the home.
What’s something I wouldn’t believe about you? Strangers Answer (Thoraya Maronesy)
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