“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, ...
Hari Vasu (second from right) at his high school graduation in 2007 (photo courtesy Caitlin Ryan).
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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin. Original photo taken by Wynand van Poortvliet.
Last week, Israeli satirist Shahak Shapira launched...
For Samanta Helou, the music of jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington and his band makes her feel transcendent and reassured, emotions she needed right before meet...
My family used to live at 15 Olivier Place, Kingston 8, Jamaica. I wrote it at the top of all the letters I penned to my little sister, Lisie, who shared a bedroom with me. I spent 11 years in that grey townhouse, one of about one hundred similar to it....
When I returned to California, I brought my diaries into the backyard every afternoon and read them through sequentially, with the hope of learning more about the years before my brain injury....
Raised by an outspoken, lesbian, feminist mother who started Olympia, Washington’s first women’s health clinic, my sisters and I grew up in a busy house filled with stories of confrontations with dominant culture. With charisma and charm, Pat Shively, my courageous and visionary mother, taught us to follow our hearts, question authority, fight for the underdog, laugh loudly and raise hell....
Don’t go to The Museum of Jurassic Technology if you like technology or dinosaurs. It doesn’t have anything to do with them. Go to appreciate an establish...
