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The United States had thus expended nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars’ worth of missiles to kill a dozen or two low-level al-Qaeda members and destroy the factory that made more than half of Sudan’s medicine, including vital antimalarials. Since sanctions against Sudan made importing medicine difficult, this caused an uncounted number of needless deaths—Germany’s ambassador to Sudan guessed “several tens of thousands”—in one of the world’s poorest countries.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
Another example would be a father with unresolved feelings of inadequacy who belittles his son in order to feel strong and capable in comparison.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
Autonomy—in tandem with electrification, which will make driving cheaper and thus encourage more of it—might turn out to be a suburban carcinogen that triggers metastatic sprawl.
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