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Published on this date

In 2021

"Algeria: The forest fires that led to an artist's lynching"

dek: "The BBC's Kayleen Devlin tells a harrowing story of how the life of a young artist who came to help fight deadly forest fires in Algeria was ended by a mob."

BBC / by Kayleen Devlin

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"The Perverse Reason It’s Easier to Build New Highways Than New Subways - The environment?!"

dek: "Congestion pricing in NYC, subway tunnels in San Francisco are being held up by environmental reviews, a perverse policy that rarely delays roads."

Slate / by Henry Grabar

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Augustus, 14 (age 76), in Nola, Italy