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Notes from the Exurbs
Life inside Boston’s easternmost ring road, west of its massive suburban mosaic, is more than the meets the eye of Google earth. This outer ring of habitation, tucked inside the burly bark of the...
A Southern Autumn
I've lived in Georgia and Alabama since 1974. I was nine when we moved here during Christmas break. I want to describe life here, so people who don't live here won't think we're all uneducated...
Only. Skin. Deep.
A few years ago, I boarded a plane heading to a small American college-town. It was my first time in the United States, and I was starting my freshman year at a prominent institution of higher...
Rudy Giuliani: Just How Far Will His Dance Take Him?
On August 9th of 1997, a young Haitian immigrant by the name of Abner Louima in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn was brought to a police station after being arrested for his role in a brawl at a...
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...
Common Sense: Not So Common After All
According to…someone…we are all born with an innate “common sense.” I disagree. Common sense is about as common as snow in the desert. And, given the world around us, it’s not hard to...
The American Ways
"THE AMERICAN WAY" is possibly the catchiest tried and true maxim of all American clichés. It is most often used by Americans in fond reference to matters which make them proud, and there are many,...
The Path to Freedom: The Struggle Against Human trafficking
An Interview with La Strada’s Tetyana Mityura, a leading activist that has spent over five years on the front lines of Ukraine’s war against human trafficking and sexual slavery. There is...