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More than 36 kids die in hot cars every year

9 years 4 months ago
Vehicular heatstroke. Hyperthermia. The devastating effects of a child being left in a hot car. It's every parent's unfathomable nightmare, yet it happens several times a year.

Opinion: What the Uber scandal says about us

9 years 4 months ago
Perhaps because we are in a moment where nothing serves to shock, the news reported by Recode that a top executive of a $69 billion company tried to use a woman's confidential medical history to discredit her claims of rape initially failed to rouse a reaction from me. After an Indian woman was raped by her Uber driver in 2014, the company instituted more comprehensive background checks for its drivers in New Delhi and increased security technology in its cars. But do panic buttons change a global culture of deeply normalized sexual violence? Can there be such a thing as safety when what we hope to protect most is profit?
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