Just one year after the "Marikana massacre," an investigative report in South Africa's Daily Maverick reveals "a furtive conflict of interest, with mining houses footing the bill for top National… Read the rest of the article: Report: Salaries of mining union leaders in South Africa paid by mining companies

Peggy Orenstein has a hell of a piece in the New York Times magazine on "pink ribbon culture," and her frustration (which, as a woman with breast cancer, I fervently… Read the rest of the article: Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer

Miguel Salay and Mariano Castillo have a solid update up for CNN.com on the confusing status of the genocide trial currently on hold here in Guatemala: A week ago, the… Read the rest of the article: Guatemala: court begins to untangle genocide trial standstill

Phone video snapshot from the trial in Guatemala of US-backed military dictator Rios Montt and his then-intelligence chief, Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez

"In 1965, Sol LeWitt wrote fellow sculptor Eva Hesse a four-page letter of encouragement…"

Nobel Peace laureates including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jose Ramos Horta, Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchú Tum, today issued a joint statement "calling on past and present Guatemalan authorities to 'respect… Read the rest of the article: Guatemala: Nobel laureates issue joint statement for genocide trial against Rios Montt to proceed

Photo: mimundo.org/James Rodriguez. Ixil Maya women demonstrate in support of the continuation of the trial, outside the Supreme Court of Guatemala. A quick update from Guatemala, where I've been covering… Read the rest of the article: Guatemala: Confusion follows Constitutional Court rulings; will Montt genocide trial proceed?

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Relatives of people killed during Guatemala's armed conflict hold up a banner with the names of the dead, during a protest.

James Surowiecki in the New Yorker: After Reddit's attempt to find the Boston Marathon bombers turned into a major failure (for which Reddit's general manager Erik Martin publicly apologized Monday),… Read the rest of the article: Surowiecki: The right way to crowdsource a manhunt

A Pew Research Center study out today shows that the modest economic growth following the so-called "Great Recession" has increased wealth inequality in America. The top 7% of American households… Read the rest of the article: Richest Americans grow richer (and, spoiler alert: poor grow poorer)

Some patients taking antiretroviral medications for HIV/AIDS receive the efavirenz, marketed under the commercial names Sustiva and Stocrin. According to a report in the LA Times by Melissa Healy, it… Read the rest of the article: The science mystery behind a psychedelic HIV/AIDS drug

As Guatemala's Constitutional Court reviews numerous legal appeals, supporters of the tribunal and supporters of Rios Montt (and the Army) face off in increasingly charged public protests.

At Wired News' Danger Room, Spencer Ackerman's feature on the technology and crowdsourcing dynamics that allowed law enforcement to identify the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing so rapidly. "Hiding… Read the rest of the article: Modern Manhunt: FBI, Hive Mind, Boston Bombers

Police in Canada have arrested two men they accuse of conspiring to commit an "al-Qaeda supported" attack that was to derail a passenger train in the Greater Toronto Area. The… Read the rest of the article: Canadian police: "al-Qaeda-supported" plot to derail train thwarted

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Writes Spencer Ackerman at Wired's Danger Room: A "weapon of mass destruction" is "a very broad category under federal law. Grenades, mines, missiles and rockets all apply. So do homemade… Read the rest of the article: Why was the suspected Boston Bomber charged with using a "weapon of mass destruction"?

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has been charged in a criminal complaint over the bombing of the Boston Marathon. He appeared before a federal magistrate who came to his bedside at Beth… Read the rest of the article: Transcript of Boston Bombing suspect's bedside hearing (yes, he was Mirandized)

The New York Times has a beautiful interactive feature with audio narratives from "some of the people seen near the finish line." What is most striking about the interactive design:… Read the rest of the article: Boston Marathon bombing: first-person stories, in audio

Responding to claims from the mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, the FBI said today it had not been tracking her oldest son, nor had the bureau spoken with… Read the rest of the article: FBI: we didn't track elder bombing suspect