Kony 2012 Forever
On the second day of January 1985, the spirit took hold of Alice. She went out to heal the sick, and heal the sick she…
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The Life Changing Magic of Hoarding
True American exceptionalism doesn’t spring from the nation’s statehouses but from its garbage cans. The contemporary US is objectively extraordinary in that virtually anyone, including…
Nessuna Torno Indietro - 1938, 2025
Ann Goldstein’s new English translation of Italian-Cuban author Alba De Céspedes' debut novel, There’s No Turning Back (Nessuna Torno Indietro, 1938), is the first since…
Housing Crisis in the “Garden City of the East”
While people in cities across the Global North are unable to access affordable housing, their comrades in the Global South are dispossessed of houses that…
New Neighbor, Who's This?
On Friday nights in the 1990s, the American family came under attack. Intruders penetrated the home: they stole food, lured children into moral decay, and…
Korea Under Ceasefire
On February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma.…
A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye
South Lebanon is a lesson in steadfastness — an obstinate and determined testament to the willingness of an indigenous people to confront their occupier and…
Health Equity Capture
“The Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups…
AMLO All Along
Victor Sebastyen, Lenin, Pantheon 2017, 363. In 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run…
Seoul to Squeeze
The Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae,…