Margo St. James, saucy advocate for sex workers, dies at 83 Her organization was called COYOTE — short for Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics — but she and her associates also referred to themselves as a “loose union of women” or, winkingly, a “union of loose women.” More
Coronavirus latest: California’s death toll nears 30,000 but hospitalisation rate slows – as it happened London Heathrow takes pandemic blow as passengers stay away. China records 100-plus cases for first time since July. Mexico City restaurants defy lockdown ban. 01/11/2021 - 9:27 pm | View Link
2 Websites Selling Trump Merchandise Are Shut Down Shopify, the company that powers e-commerce sites for more than one million merchants, said on Thursday that it had closed two online stores tied to President Trump, including those run by the Trump ... 01/10/2021 - 10:09 pm | View Link
A very different ‘52 Places’ At this time of year,’ Travel desk usually publishes its lavish 52 Places to Go list, a compendium of suggestions for the destinations that are especially worth visiting in the coming year, ... 01/10/2021 - 1:23 am | View Link
Jennifer Robinson: ‘Assange had information. That made him dangerous’ Jennifer Robinson is used to dealing with negative stories about her most famous and controversial client. As Julian Assange’s longest serving lawyer, she’s watched as the founder of WikiLeaks, once ... 01/7/2021 - 11:34 pm | View Link
Pandemic wanderlust: 100 places we're yearning to travel in 2021 and beyond Here are the places that staff and contributors across the USA TODAY Network want to travel in 2021 – or when it's safer to do so. 12/29/2020 - 11:17 pm | View Link
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Eddie Adelman of Belfast is a writer.
Let’s face it. The last year hasn’t exactly been a barrel of laughs.
So much of our world has been turned upside down.
A new year or a continuation of last year? A raging pandemic, record joblessness, a divided country, climate change, a civil war, food insecurity…on and on.