Hearting Huckabee: A Story of Woe
Election 2008 is bound to be somewhat of a disappointment, regardless of the possible outcome. This isn't meant as an insult toward the candidates, many of whom are interesting people, but toward our...
Author: Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova is a DC-based writer and editor
The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook
Continuing this week's tradition of cool interviews, I bring you a conversation with Dilara Hafiz, one of the authors behind The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom...
Slave to Fate and desperate men
.!.On July 1, 2002 a Bashkirian Airlines passenger plane and a DHL cargo jet collided over the German countryside. Eyewitnesses reported seeing fire in the sky, a noise like thunder stirred the...
The Big Dreary
I must be stuck in some dark-humoured comedy sketch. Everywhere I go in Kyiv, the same exact conversation follows me (well, perhaps I’m fudging a little, one conversation I overheard involved two...
The Sweetest Thing
As millions of other people in this sick, sad world of ours, I follow in the footsteps of Winston Churchill. Am I a charismatic leader who overcame the Nazis and a lisp? Am I a defiant showstopper...
Bad Samaritans
A friend of mine, X, lives in a town called Y. She resides in a relatively egalitarian neighbourhood that is a far cry from the faceless “gated communities” that are so popular with certain...
The Season
"Omigod, Brianna, my neighbours have an inverted Christmas tree just like this one! Who do they think they are?""I know. Some people just try to be different for the sake of being different. It's...
Election 2006
As I type these words, President Bush is still lodged firmly in that mystical seat of power somewhere above mere mortals’ heads, but he is not having such a hot time at the moment. In the United...
Marie Antoinette
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Manufactured Outrage
American Muslims are seemingly incapable of pleasing the media. They don’t really riot, they are not fond of torching embassies, and they generally stay away from issuing menacing fatwas. As much...