Origins articles
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Original Observer Photography
From a mural in Birmingham commemorating poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the Observer’s favourite food shops: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in April 2024 Continue reading
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Intifada, the Origin of Democracy
It’s a testament to the contradictions of our present barbarity that while the whole world recognizes that crimes against humanity, if not the crime of genocide itself, are being committed by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people, the political-economic institutions of the U.S., and their dutiful servants in government, academia, entertainment, and elsewhere, More
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The Best of Bob Pool: An L.A. storytelling original
It's a risky proposition to create a "best of list" for Bob Pool stories in the Los Angeles Times. Not only are there too many to choose from — more than 4,000 — but there are few shortcuts for finding the true gems. That's because Pool hated writing for Page 1. He favored economy over length. And the headlines rarely did justice to tales he could weave way inside the old Times Valley Edition, say, on a page next to GE refrigerator ads. Readers could chuckle at one story Pool wrote for inside...