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Wake-Up Call

What does it take to represent voters? Jeanne Dietsch takes us into the unglamorous, necessary work of democracy, of a candidate for local office knocking on doors, ...
On February 5, 2019 / By Jeanne Dietsch
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May Our Hope Persist: A Love Letter for My Niece

America, June 2018 Dear Malia, Let me begin with what matters most: I love you. I don’t know how many times I have written this letter in my ...
On December 3, 2018 / By Timothy Patrick McCarthy
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After the President Calls Citizens ‘Sons of Bitches’

As I watch the line of men drop to their knees, refusing to praise the God of country, the most jealous and vengeful God of all, I am ...
On November 20, 2018 / By Anne Champion
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City Birds

The turkeys are out in Cambridge. I passed one this morning on my way to church: a large male in full feather, his tail fanned out in picturesque ...
On November 20, 2018 / By Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon
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Our Lies Are Our Fondest Hopes–And Science Will Destroy Them (That’s a Good Thing!)

I never liked science. Numbers are boring. I never was this nerd guy, doing the math, imagining algorithms, checking things in a laboratory… I studied science only because ...
On November 13, 2018 / By Benoit Rey
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Tourniquet

The day after I passed my ninth grade finals, I began a summer job at a country inn. The tips weren’t great, but I liked the way the ...
On November 14, 2017 / By Rosalie Davis
Politics 1
Home No More

I stood in the fourth-floor lounge at Cambridge Innovation Center, my gaze switching back and forth between the innovators—who were drinking their morning coffees and teas—and the Syrian ...
On October 2, 2017 / By Boyah J. Farah
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Lesson from a Last Day

My husband’s living will is in his backpack when he checks into the little New England hospital near the lake house where we stay every summer. Not that ...
On May 21, 2017 / By Mimi Schwartz
Culture 0
Fox Humana

If asked, the fox might say that one of the problems in her world, and ours, is that humans have overtaken her species as the most widely dispersed ...
On April 2, 2017 / By Jim Krosschell
Community 1
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 ...
On February 11, 2017 / By Kim Stafford
Pangyrus 1
From the Editor: What We Are

On the Publication of Pangyrus Three No one knows, showing up on the shores of a strange country, clutching an address on an envelope, where the journey will ...
On February 9, 2017 / By Greg Harris
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 ...
On February 3, 2017 / By Shanoor Seervai