For an immigrant, losing a home is a given, but Margarita Gokun Silver wonders if never finding one again is also part of the journey.
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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction
Scaramucci’s Removal Evokes White House Turmoil During the Reagan Years
Anthony Scaramucci resigned after just 10 days as White House communications director. Turns out, he also set a record previously held by a member of Ronald Reagan’s administration.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Three: The Widow’s Tale
When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Guns and Marriage
Simone Gorrindo struggles to make peace with the violence that puts food on her table.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners
This year’s Pulitzer winners include The Salt Lake Tribune, East Bay Times, Colson Whitehead, Heather Ann Thompson, and more.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
A Green New Jail
What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Nonfiction
The Collected Crimes of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
The president chose to pardon an extremely bad man before providing aid to Texas.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Reading List
A Transgender-Military Reading List
Thousands of people in the U.S.’s all-volunteer military are transgender.
Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Sports
Jemele Hill Was Doing Her Job
ESPN Sportscenter host Jemele Hill has been suspended for two weeks for simply doing what she was hired to do: provide commentary on the news.
Posted inNonfiction
What the World’s Most Controversial Herbicide Is Doing to Rural Argentina
After enormous lobbying efforts, Monsanto’s GMO soybeans, treated with Roundup, became the country’s largest export, as cancer rates and other health issues skyrocketed.
