Weekly Wrap 8.26.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week | Sojourners

Weekly Wrap 8.26.16: The 10 Best Stories You Missed This Week

1. Aleppo: Children of War

The image of Omran Daqneesh sitting stunned in the back of an ambulance after his home was hit by airstrikes captured the world’s attention. But there are so many more like him. NBC News has a running vertical of news about the children caught in the four-year war.

2. This Is Mylan Pharmaceuticals’ Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

You know Mylan as the pharma company in hot water for hiking the cost of lifesaving EpiPen 450 percent over the past 12 years. To quote their code of ethics: “In short, we ‘do what’s right, not what’s easy.’”

3. Standing Rock Sioux Bring Pipeline Protest to D.C.

WATCH: Images from the protest and interview with speaker Mark Charles.

4. The Stanford Rape Case Judge Steps Aside

The California judge who sentenced Brock Turner to only six months after a three-count sexual assault conviction has voluntarily stepped aside and is transferring to the civil division.

5. Priests vs. Drug Lords in Argentina

“It’s part of a bigger problem,” Padre Isasmendi says. “It’s part of marginalization.”

6. Your Phone Is Becoming Your Favorite Screen, Even When You’re at Home

Typed on my laptop while watching the news with my iPhone notifications buzzing in my lap.

7. Free Expression in Peril

On the University of Chicago’s just announced foray into the trigger warning/safe space debate.

8. The Lottery of Indecency
Nailed it.

9. An Israeli Artist Submerged a Black Gown in the Dead Sea for Two Years

And you’ll never guess what happened … ! (<— I apologize. But it is really cool.)

10. Clinton, Ryan Team Up on Anti-Poverty Plan

“The math of the so-called 10-20-30 proposal is simple: At least 10 percent of a federal program’s funds should go to counties where 20 percent of the population has lived below the poverty line for 30 years.”

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