Elouise Cobell passes away

From the Telegraph: Elouise Cobell, whose Blackfeet name was Yellow Bird Woman and who has died aged 65, sued the United States government for billions of dollars plundered from American Indian lands – and won.”

Changing Times: Jill Abramson takes charge of the Gray Lady

Ken Auletta for the New Yorker: “At nine o’clock on the morning of September 6th, Jill Abramson was riding the subway uptown from her Tribeca loft. It was her first day as executive editor of the New York Times, and also the first time in the paper’s hun…

Nobel Peace Prize goes to women’s rights activists

Sudarsan Raghavan and Michael Birnbaum writing for the Washington Post: “The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded Friday to three influential women from Africa and the Middle East, a decision intended at once to draw attention to the suppression of wom…