Author: Michelle Korhonen
Motorcycle-stunt teams from different Indian security forces frequently put on performances at festivals and parades, such as the annual Republic Day parade in New Delhi. These teams of daredevils stack themselves high on single or multiple motorcycle rigs, displaying their skills and putting on a show. One team in particular, the ASC Tornadoes, set the world record for “most people on one moving motorcycle” in 2017, with a total of 58 riders. Gathered below are photos of some of these two-wheeled performances from recent years.
Crownsville patients work in the hospital’s fields in the 1910s. Maryland State Archives/Hatchette hide caption toggle caption Maryland State Archives/Hatchette Crownsville patients work in the hospital’s fields in the 1910s. Maryland State Archives/Hatchette From the outside, the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland, which opened in Crownsville, Md., in 1911, looked like a farm, with patients harvesting tobacco, constructing gardens and working with cattle. But Peobody award-winning NBC journalist Antonia Hylton says the hospital’s interior told a different story. Inside, Crownsville Hospital, as it became known, had cold, concrete floors, small windows and seclusion cells in which patients were…
Something is broken in the current policy of brinksmanship with Iran, and something unusual might be needed to restore a status quo.Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo; Planet Labs / AP.January 29, 2024, 12:05 PM ETYesterday, a drone thought to be launched by Iranian proxies killed three American soldiers in Jordan, on the Syrian border. All talk now is of escalation. President Joe Biden said the United States “shall respond,” adding that the response would occur “at a time and in a manner [of] our choosing.” For once I would like to hear a world leader…
Ulysses S. Grant once said that the Confederate cause, the defense of chattel slavery, was “one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.” Texas’s embrace of neo-secessionist rhetoric in defense of letting children drown in the Rio Grande belongs somewhere on that same list.Texas Governor Greg Abbott is engaged in a number of legal battles with the Biden administration over immigration. One of them involves Abbott ordering the Texas National Guard to set up razor wire and floating barriers in an effort to deter migrants. The federal government argues…
The centrist group No Labels has been the object of furious scrutiny in the 2024 election cycle, with attention largely focused on whether a third-party presidential campaign launched by the group might play a spoiler role in the presidential race, putting Donald Trump back in the White House. Last week, No Labels went so far as to allege illegal sabotage by Democratic organizations and other political groups.No Labels presents itself as the solution to a lack of democracy in the existing system—voters are stuck with two choices they don’t like and over which they don’t have much control. The problem…
Last fall, when I visited the Comedy Room, Kyiv’s first venue devoted exclusively to stand-up, the mood was somber. The first act—Ivan Barbul, who founded the club— tried to warm up the crowd with a little dark humor.”We all have a common dream: for Vladimir Putin to either die or be judged,” Barbul mused. “I don’t want him dead. I want him in court, so everyone can see him. But I’m really surprised by the location.”The Hague, in the Netherlands, wasn’t where Barbul thought Putin should get justice. He’d prefer the trial to take place in the southwestern-Ukrainian region of…
January 29, 2024, 8:10 AM ETOn February 14, 2018, 17 people were murdered and 17 others injured at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As the shooting unfolded, sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson stood outside, pistol drawn and taking cover, but never entered the building to confront the killer. Condemned as the “Coward of Broward,” Peterson was put on trial for his inaction but eventually acquitted of charges that carried a maximum prison sentence of 96.5 years. As we approach the sixth anniversary of the Parkland shooting, and against the backdrop of the Justice Department’s recent finding of “significant…
Dear Therapist,I was married to my husband for 35 years when he left me for his therapist. My eldest daughter was so shocked and hurt by this that she called the woman at her work to ask her how she could do this to a family. The woman wasn’t there; my daughter spoke with her boss. The woman was asked to resign.My ex was very close with this daughter in that their personalities were so similar. But since this happened, he has more or less cut our daughter off. He texts her short greetings on her birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas…
I used to flinch at the topic of aging. Is there anything we can do about the inevitable? But recently I’ve been digging into a new wave of longevity research that is making it an exciting time to be an aging human – which is all of us. It turns out, we all age at varying rates. Super-agers may have great genes, but research shows our habits and routines – everything from what we eat and how we move our bodies to who we spend our time with – matter a lot, when it comes to aging well. Now, the…
One great paradox of our time is that to limit humanity’s harms to the planet, we must decarbonize the economy; but to decarbonize the economy, we must build tons of new stuff: wind farms, solar fields, geothermal wells, and above all electricity-transmission lines. Last month, a broad coalition of congressional Democrats released their vision for how to do this. Their bill, the Clean Electricity and Transmission Acceleration Act, includes many good ideas, such as clarifying the federal government’s authority to approve interstate transmission lines, requiring public utilities to account for the “social cost of carbon” in setting rates, and addressing…