Browsing Category Politics
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The Ghosts We Carry with Us
When I told my father that I was visiting Montgomery, his only reaction was fear — a bone-deep memory of water hoses and fire bombings, billy clubs and rough nooses. ...
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Culture 5
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 the most miserable, ...
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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 ...
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Culture 0
Making Peace with Pepperoni: A Muslim-American Perspective
As Muslim-Americans, we need to play a more active role in defining our faith, or will continue to have others define it for us The tantalizing smell of ...
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Can a Heretic Be a Hero? The Muslim Breakthrough of Mahershala Ali’s Oscar Win
Last week, capping off a successful awards season, Mahershala Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Moonlight–the first time a Muslim has ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
