Browsing Category Politics
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When Things Go Wrong, Do Right: Options for Action
Thoughts in response to a friend asking, after grand catastrophe: “What can we do?” We ask each other in times of trouble: “What can we do — about ...
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Politics 0
Trump’s Executive Order Attacks the America I Know and Love
In this moment, America is not mine. It cannot be—it is not like anything I have seen. I came here in 2007, one year before Barack Obama was ...
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Poetry 0
Kim Stafford: Two Poems on Trump’s Inauguration
Inauguration Day, 2017 The new patriot is a listener. The new citizen talks to strangers. The new continental congress convenes at bus stops, taverns and cafes, parking ...
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Ideas 1
Meeting President Obama: A Farewell to Representation
This article is being published in collaboration with the Kennedy School Review. One day last fall, at a small campus in the heart of New England, I stood ...
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Politics 0
Sic Semper Tyrranis
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera I. Invention One of the first documentations of African people in British ...
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Stepping Back: Election Blues on Veterans Day
Over the long Veterans Day weekend, I’m hitting the final lap on the world’s most procrastinated thesis. I’m focusing on Virginia Woolf—specifically, on how she writes about World ...
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Politics 0
The Promise of Magdoos: A Sliver of Hope in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
This article is being published in collaboration with Harvard’s Kennedy School Review. A Jordanian woman in the Northeastern city of Mafraq had been nagging her husband for weeks to ...
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The Inaccessibility of the Lives of Others
Nobody has ever catcalled me. God knows I’ve tried: short shorts, no top, the whole caboodle. But however much I’m “asking for it,” it never happens. I can’t ...
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Politics 0
How Donald Trump gets away with saying things other candidates can’t
This is piece is not saying that Donald Trump never means what he says. It's just sayin'... ...
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An Armenian Voice- Zabel Yessayan 0
In the Ruins
"Under a superb, dazzling sun, the devastated city stretches outward like a cemetery without end." Zabel reports on the 1909 massacres in Adana ...
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Counterpose 0
The Fatwa on Chess
Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, last week put a fatwa on chess in advance of a tournament scheduled to be held in the ...
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Deep End 0
Nous Sommes Paris
I love Paris. Walking through the world’s most beautiful streets for the Climate Conference reminded me of why. To me and to so many, Paris represents a romanticized ...
