ITV GMB: ‘You’re being selective’ Rees-Mogg shuts down Richard Bacon in Brexit debate

Jacob Rees-Mogg, 50, joined Good Morning Britain hosts Richard Bacon, 43, and Charlotte Hawkins, 44, to discuss Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand to suspend Parliament in the coming weeks as the Brexit deadline looms. Following the announcement yesterday, more than a million people have signed a petition for the decision to be overturned despite the […]

The Terrible Costs Of Selective Empathy

Zoë van Dijk for BuzzFeed News In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance. Funeral processions leave the church service and transform into brass-inspired soul train lines on the way to […]

‘Flawed & selective:’ UN Security Council failed to investigate crimes in Iraq – HRW

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the UN Security Council (UNSC) of failing to investigate war crimes and rights abuses by anti-ISIS forces in Iraq. The group said it’s a “flawed and selective” approach that turns a blind eye to abuses that have plagued the country for decades. On Thursday, the UNSC unanimously adopted a […]

‘It felt like being invited into a selective club’: Read a scholarship student’s essay about the ‘elite world of Andover’

Facebook/phillipsacademy Each year, the New York Times puts out a call for college-admissions essays to the newest class of applicants who have written about issues of money, work, or social class. In 2017, it chose four of the most poignant essays published them on its site to showcase the essays’ power and honesty. One of the essays […]

See how Stanford overtook Harvard as the most selective college in the US, in one chart

If it seems like gaining acceptance into selective colleges seems harder today than a decade ago, that’s because it is. And at a dizzying pace. Harvard and Stanford reject nearly 95% of the students who apply. But that wasn’t the case two decades ago when the acceptance rate at both schools was in the double digits. For […]