You Had Me at Beheading! The Author of “Against Football” Responds...
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Copyright @ 2015 by Steve Almond. First published in The Rumpus, December 1, 2015. Reprinted...
The Case for Wikipedia
Last weekend as Harvard prepared to take on Yale for Ivy League football bragging rights, a “Yale cites Wikipedia” poster flashed on College GameDay....
the long way to a small, angry inbox
Normally, this wouldn’t matter so much.
A few nights ago, I logged into an old Yahoo account that I habitually checked and used for retrospective...
Born Here, Freed Here
"I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia . . . My life had its beginning in the midst of...
When Death Comes From the Skies
The first plane appeared in the eastern sky at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon. It was a member of the Condor Legion, a Nazi...
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...
Coming of AIDS
Dedicated to every angel in America—then and now.
Coming of age, as I did, during the 1980s meant that I came of age in the...
An End to Impunity? Protests and Hope for Mexico
MEXICO CITY – I have covered many massacres, witnessed too much bloodshed, so many that the latest killings should not have come as a...
Ni Pena Ni Miedo
Some people must wonder why we want bones.
I want them so much! I want them so much!
--Violeta Berrios in “Nostalgia for the Light”
In Chacabuco...
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...
Mixedness
What a privilege it must be for people to be able to identify you, to place you correctly in the American mosaic with just...
For Greenwood
When my husband and I were much younger and had more leisure time, we decided to binge-watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was my...